Enemy of Entropy

Blah — Spammers Are Scum

4 September 2008, 10:30 pm. 2 Comments. Filed under Blogging, Family.

Not that it’s news to any­one, I know. But Defen­sio was down this evening (because of an Ama­zon server fail­ure), which meant that all of our sites have been slammed with com­ment spam. They all get hit con­stantly, but it’s usu­ally a non-​​issue because Defen­sio fil­ters almost 100% of the crap before we see it. These out­ages serve to remind us of how great the ser­vice is.

I notice that my older posts are the ones that get the most spam com­ments. I’ve looked for some sort of plu­gin to auto­mat­i­cally dis­able com­ments on posts after a week or so, but I haven’t found one so far. I finally gave in today and started back with the very first post on this blog, dis­abling com­ments. It is a tedious process! I’m sure that some­one could write a script that would do the same thing in the MySQL data­base much faster, but I’m not that someone.

Sam has to go back to work tomor­row. Pout. I’ve really enjoyed hav­ing him home.

Singing the Joys of WordPress

22 June 2008, 1:55 am. 3 Comments. Filed under Blogging, Education, Geekery, Health.

I have to say, I do love the fact that Word­Press allows me to write posts and sched­ule them to post them­selves to cover days when I don’t feel up to blog­ging. I’ve been hav­ing a lot of trou­ble view­ing the mon­i­tor lately – my eyes feel like they’re danc­ing and noth­ing stays in focus, lead­ing to migraines very quickly. That is not a good thing when I’m in the last week of classes for the semes­ter!
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