Like many bloggers, I use Akismet to screen comments for spam. In the past month, I've noticed two new kinds of spam that are cleverer than the usual gibberish. Akismet didn't classify them as spam, but it did at least classify them as questionable. One new spam type contains extractions from other sites that contain one … Continue reading Blog spammers’ new tricks
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Seek Nuance now available on Kindle
In my ceaseless quest to boost my readers' happiness and productivity, I've made this blog available for Kindle users.
Yet another new theme
Eh, I didn't like that theme either. Here's Cutline by Chris Pearson.
Another theme change
I changed it to ChaosTheory. I'll keep this for longer than six hours. 🙂
I changed this blog’s theme to K2-lite…
...And now some photos and paragraphs aren't formatting quite right. WordPress.com themes should be interchangeable, but they aren't... Still, I was getting tired of the old look, so I'll keep this theme up for a while.
I won’t read blogs with disabled commenting
From now on, I won't read blogs that have commenting disabled. There will be only one exception to this rule — Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish gets a pass. I decided this after reacting to a post about Amtrak on plope. The author, Chris McDonough, felt that Amtrak's cost was too high, and its predictability too low, … Continue reading I won’t read blogs with disabled commenting
This blog’s page views
As it's the end of a month, I took a look at this blog's page view stats. They're tiny, of course, but trending up: September was the highest month, with 4,718 views. There've been 18,233 views total, since inception. Gee, that high month was about 1/3 of TrenchMice's average month in the last year of … Continue reading This blog’s page views
Django -> Plone: Blog tags
A milestone of sorts: In this blog's tag cloud, the "Plone" tag is now larger than the "Django" tag.
Over 1,000 spam comments, and counting…
Today, the number of spam comments filtered by Akismet for this blog broke the 1,000 barrier. The vast majority, easily more than 99%, of the spam is obvious nonsense. Like, a long list of links, or a comment containing a mess of garbage words. I'm still amazed that it's profitable for someone to generate all that … Continue reading Over 1,000 spam comments, and counting…
IntenseDebate’s blog commenting technology
One of the technical initiatives at work has finally come to fruition! We are now hooking our sites up to a commenting system. (Aka third-party, or JavaScript, commenting.) The roll-out happens this week. KOMO news is the first site to receive it. Go there now, and you'll find "Comment()" links after each story summary. Go to … Continue reading IntenseDebate’s blog commenting technology
Seek Nuance 