Misc

So, I think I have managed to do the upgrade. I will be messing a bit with the quicktags for comments in a moment, to put in the latest version of that plugin. Post here if you see any issues anywhere on the site.

Looks like the site overloaded SQL today. So I am taking an immediate backup, optimizing tables, then upgrading to WP 2.0. Expect the blog to be MIA for a little while…

It’s been an ongoing battle against spam on the blog lately — mostly, trackback spam. Our filter for trapping regular comment spam works pretty well, but people were able to sneak in several hundred spams a day using an attack on the trackback mechanism.

Read More “Trackback Validator rocks”

For the next few days, I will be here, doing this. My talk is titled “Influences,” and after I get back maybe I’ll post some of it.

I may or may not manage to do regular blog posts. We’ll see. 🙂

Grr.

So there I am in Outlook 2003, about to delete an email unread. Muscle memory kicks in, and instead of hitting CTRL-Q to mark it read, then Del, I hit CTRL-A, CTRL-Q, Del, a sequence I use many times a day when wiping out all the spam in a folder.

So I delete my entire Inbox.

Read More “Email go poof!”