I had a visit today from the Mother and Godmother so I could give tem some lessons in how to set their website up. Talk about bridging the generation gap! I’m not sure who had the biggest culture shock – them coming to terms with file transfers, image re-sizing and database structure or me trying […]
Entries Tagged as 'Wordpress'
Bad Behavior
January 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Bad Behavior · Technology
On the advice of my favourite Timelord over at Wongablog, I downloaded and installed Bad Behavior (*) to try and stem the flow of spam, which was getting annoying – it was not unusual to be getting more than 100 spam comments in an hour which were not picked up by Akismet and which had […]
Days like this
January 25th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Technology
Is it a really bad day for spam generally, or is it just me? Has anyone else had a deluge today? I have had 5,000 (!) spam comments for moderation today. That is 5,000 comments on top of the ones picked up by Akismet. I am wondering if this is just a one-off, or if […]
Bloody Vikings!
January 24th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Technology
I think I can live without Lordi ringtones. I don’t want to buy Cialis online – or even offline: I spend enough time in bed at the weekend as it is. And I have no interest in Texas hold’em poker, so I am getting a bit pissed off with the several hundred spam comments on […]
So that was 2006?
December 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Life
There is still a week to go before the end, but I am going to assume nothing much will happen in that time – or should that be hope that nothing will happen (bearing in mind the terrorist fears in today’s Observer)? It has been a mixed year really. Music As far as music is […]
Tags: Art·Blogger·Blogging·Crawley Council·Dorset·DVD·Elections·Family·Films·Holidays·TV·West Ham·Wordpress·World Cup 2006
Spam Loophole
November 12th, 2006 · Comments Off on Spam Loophole · Technology
Over the last few days I have had three bits of spam get past the filters and the moderation via an unanticipated back door – trackbacks. So far it is just one source – a Flickr account which is now defunct and I hope it will prove to be too much trouble for others to […]
Oops…
October 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off on Oops… · Technology
I take it all back. Turns out I cocked up my own set-up while I was doing the other one yesterday. When I ran into problems I was looking at all my files to make sure I set the other site up the same way and somehow set the permissions on my .htaccess file wrongly, […]
No Comment
October 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off on No Comment · Technology
I don’t think comments are working here at the moment. It might be connected to the problem B4L is having with its forum – I think we share the same host, and if they have botched a php upgrade it could be affecting me too. I don’t know how long it has been like this […]
Blogs Today
July 13th, 2006 · Comments Off on Blogs Today · Technology
I think that the Blogs Today site is quite new, but it looks interesting. It is traditional, possibly even mandatory, for WordPress users to look down their noses a bit at a set-up which is free, very easy to use and under the ownership of a newspaper company, but it does have a lot going […]
Tags: Blogger·Blogging·Newspapers·Wordpress
WordPress Spam
July 13th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Technology
Tygernet was moaning about this the other day. Actually moaning is not the right word: he was quite belligerent about it really. Anyway, I have been wondering about this for a while, because I really am not very expert in the inner workings of MySQL/php. I know the reason why a spammer would want to […]
