Yes, this blog is still alive. In fact, I just spent the past hour or so doing some major behind-the-scenes upgrading. (To the latest Drupal 6, not Drupal 7. The Drupal 7 update is for another day.) All changes should be invisible to you, so please let me know if ...
more ...Ah, the sweet, sweet taste of victory:
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Okay, I've finished updating and re-organizing the site. The big changes are:
The spammers are winning. Time to fall back and re-trench.
First, let me give credit where credit is due. The spam filters are doing their job remarkably well. Since I put them in place, they have caught and filtered out 5,682 of the 5,934 pieces of spam to ...
more ...The spammers are getting smarter, and in a very interesting (and possibly scary) way.
Consider the comment I just received on an three-month old post:
Very good post, thanks a lot.
Posted by dido on Jan 4th, 2010 at 8:18 am.
What's so bad about that? Is it ...
more ...Readers may recall my kvetching about Drupal from a few posts ago. In particular, I was complaining that while Drupal (the software that powers this site) is powerful enough to do anything I could imagine doing with a site, it doesn't really come out-of-the-box ready to do anything in ...
more ...Well, now I know what happens when I go too long without posting: the spambots swarm in.
It's actually been interesting watching them work. First a single spam comment shows up, all on its own. Not so bad, you think. It's just one. I'll get around to ...
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