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April 2nd, 2008, by Rich, in Spam, Tech, Website, WordPress.
Something’s broken on the database that runs this site, specifically there’s b0rkage in the comment table, and the ssh daemon is not reachable. Perhaps it’s to do with the larger than normal amount of spam that’s been arriving today (for “larger than normal” read: one metric truckload). More info later after I’ve had a poke around. Film at 11. More…
March 13th, 2008, by Rich, in Open Source, Spam, Tech, Website, WordPress.
I’m in the process of rewriting the Worst Offenders plugin for the soon-to-be-released WordPress 2.5. Before I make a tested and polished version of the code globally available, I’d be interested to hear from anyone who’d like to alpha test it.
As before Worst Offenders works cooperatively with other anti-spam plugins: its primary purpose is identifying and deleting the comments that are 100% definitely spam (sent by the very worst offenders) so that any “false positives” (sent by real genuine humans) can be rescued from the spam bin! More…
March 21st, 2007, by Rich, in Spam, Website, WordPress.
It’s only 15 months since I mentioned the rocket-like acceleration of Akismet which went from a standing start to the point where it had fended off a million spam messages for its users in just 4 months. If things had continued at that pace it would have squashed a cool 5 million spams by now. More…
December 19th, 2006, by Rich, in Advertising, Google, Tech, Website.
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October 20th, 2006, by Rich, in Google, Website, WordPress, bbPress.
The plugin system on BBPress is still rather rudimentary (you create a folder called “my-plugins”) and any php that exists therein is considered to be an activated plugin. The good news here is, that (a) it works and (b) it’s so similar to the WordPress that many plugins will magically work without modification. My Google Analytics Plugin for Wordpress is (almost) one such example. More…
October 14th, 2006, by Rich, in Eulogize, Slashdot, Website, WordPress, bbPress.
BBPress has been released today (try it). For quite some time now I’ve been quietly using BBPress for managing thoughts and discussions on another website. This has been possible for two reasons: firstly, the pre-release version of BBPress has been quite stable and secondly, I’ve been using it in a password protected area so it’s not been open to public use and abuse. More…
October 9th, 2006, by Rich, in Website.
Some folks may have noticed a lack of service for the last few days. This was due to a simultaneous disk failure on the old server*. Happily, a new shrink wrapped server has been installed and most of the content is now back, with a few updates over the forthcoming days. More…
April 20th, 2006, by Rich, in Website.
The site’s going to be up and down like a yoyo over the next few days (until Sunday 23rd April) due to some major network restructuring in the server building.
February 21st, 2006, by Rich, in Website, WordPress.
For some reason, ever since I upgraded to WordPress 2.0, the categories on this site haven’t been working. I’ve now upgraded to 2.0.1 and they’re still not happy. I had hoped that the upgrade would help… but alas… More…
February 20th, 2006, by Rich, in Society, Website, WordPress.
Would you Adam and Eve it, we’re at number 2 in the BritBlog top 50. Cor blimey! Love a duck! More…
