Static in the Ether

With the comment spam continuing to pour in I caved in a and implemented captchas for comments.  While a solution using mathematical computation such as that offered by the match captcha plugin for wordpress, since the are only host defendant (rather than having to rely on some other 3rd-party service), this particular plugin was only [...]

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The last few weeks has seen a deluge of comment spam, which mostly is the run of the mill bot based stuff advertising ‘cheap hosting’ , porn and other such sites.  a couple tht cought my attention were simple posts of urls with the following sort of format: http://www.google.com/search?q=rxbcrobh http://www.google.com/search?q=frhlrxca http://www.google.com/search?q=omihinga Searching on google with [...]

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Further to my previous post about using mod_rewrite to direct my old feed URLs to the right place, its probably time to notify people who read them in aggregators that the URI has changed, since the aggregators (particularly the web based ones hide the redirect, even tho its a 301). To the: 1 subscribers using [...]

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The other day morning stated out with a conversation with darb that went as follows: DARB: so…wordpress hey? BVI: I got over writing my own code BVI: now I’m waiting for my blog to be 0wn3d DARB: you know wordpress is the equivalent of an 8ft tall ogre that stands outside looking pretty, smashes tables [...]

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Having now migrated to WordPress from my own very customised version of phpBloxsom, which ran the previous incarnation of this blog, Ive been left with the issue of dealing with all the sites pulling my RSS feeds. With the change of software has come a change of url for the location of the feeds. Apache’s [...]

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Having a quiet evening at home is a fairly rare occurrence, but tonight it happened. Consequently I got so spent some quality time exploring the wealth of plugins available for WordPress.  After some picking and choosing Ive added a couple, and as the title sugegsts they are “web 2.0″ – for varing definitions of the [...]

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