Spammed by MyNiceMailAt .com
September 17th, 2005, by Rich, in Security, Society, Spam, WordPress.
Hopefully I just spoiled a spammer’s whole week. How? I bought the domain that he’s trying to promote (MyNiceMailAt.com) before he did. More…
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WordPress Multiple Authors Plugin
August 17th, 2005, by Rich, in WordPress.
MostWanted 0.1.4
August 5th, 2005, by Rich, in Releases, WordPress.
Warning: apache_lookup_uri() [function.apache-lookup-uri]: Unable to include '/pics/2005/mostwanted/mostwanted' - error finding URI in /home/www/boakes.org/htdocs/mods/plugins/boakes-depicticon.php on line 65
I’ve just made a small update to the MostWanted plugin that solves an output validity issue. More…
Latest Referral Spam Domains
June 10th, 2005, by Rich, in Spam, WordPress.
Referral and Comment spam continues unabated, with several new domains this week, and several new machines doing the spamming. Here I present two regularly updated URl’s that list the domains and ip addresses of the machines that are hitting me, and the two scripts that generate them. More…
Wordpress with Page Cacheing
June 7th, 2005, by Rich, in WordPress.
A small improvement to this site - page cacheing using WP-Cache-2. More…
Better Comments
May 28th, 2005, by Rich, in WordPress.
I’m just trying out Brian’s Threaded Comments plugin which will make articles that generate a lot of response more like a forum than a guge list.
Apologies if I’ve broken enything until it’s properly inserted :).
Turbocharging StatTraq
April 22nd, 2005, by Rich, in WordPress.
If you use StatTraq and WordPress, or if you use any kind of open-source statistics package on your website, you may benefit from this. Whilst reading around the intricacies of MySQL yesterday I discovered something so blindingly obvious that I think there must be a conspiracy to not talk about it. More…
Impending Server Repair
April 5th, 2005, by Rich, in Website, WordPress.
The server that runs this site has endured a minor injury to it’s long term storage (one of the disks, or the RAID card that the disks connect to, are kaput) - fortunately we have backups and a fairly resilient machine, so it’s serving the pages from it’s RAM cache at the moment. The bottom line is that this site will be off line for a little while fairly soon, as soon as we have the opportunity to work out what hardware is at fault, and buy a new one of it.
Extending StatTraq and Spam Control
April 1st, 2005, by Rich, in Spam, WordPress.
I spent a while chatting with StatTraq author Randy Peterman over the last few days, we’re both interested in how to remove (or hide) referral spam from site usage statistics in order that they may be a realistic and meaningful reflection of actual human visitors. More…
Under ReConstruction
February 24th, 2005, by Rich, in WordPress.
