Originally published on January 18th, 2007 at Onward & Upward A few snippets from blog readings today… Shannon at “Rocks in My Dryer” needs your help! She is trying to collect 675 comments on her blog of people letting her know where they live. Shannon and her boys will then mark the locations on a map. (This is their pass-the-time-while-icebound game. :-)) As of now, she has over 400 comments so head over there and add your input! (Besides, it’s…
First of all, congrats to my brother! :-) I’ve been wondering when this was going to happen. ;-) I have been doing some research about my spam and guess what! I found out it’s not spam at all, but trackbacks. That explains how they’re getting to old posts. Apparently the best way to combat this to install a thing called Bad Behavior, which blocks spammers from even accessing my site. My only concern is that it’s going to block legitimate…
Today, as most of you know, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Here in Atlanta, it’s a big deal (although both Paul and I are working today *sigh*). I don’t have many thoughts on the subject right now, but I did find this very interesting. Do you think that we will ever successfully erase diversity barriers?
You may notice a new feature in my commenting form that requires you to add two numbers. I’m hoping this will help in the spam. I turned off Akismet (my spam filter) again, and this morning had a million spam comments waiting for moderation. Hmm… Anyone have ideas as to how they are able to bypass this? I turned Akismet back on. Please email me if you leave a comment and it doesn’t appear. Paul and I spent the weekend…
So I’ve been having trouble with spam comments. I downloaded and used Aksimet, which was really good, but it blocked a few okay comments too. I was getting complaints from people whose comments were going straight to the spam filter and never seeing the light of day on my blog. So, I disabled the spam filter but now I’m having to wade through tons of spam on my blog. (It all gets chucked into the “moderate” queue, but still I…