It’s been a while since I wrote anything here, and likewise, that I’ve touched the Live Archives (or Super Archives as I for some odd reason called it) plugin. The reason for this post is that Callum Alden has picked up the baton and ensured that the Extended Live Archives plugin works on Wordpress v. 2.8.4.
On a sidenote, it’s interesting how the social web-sites have become communication paths, I guess email has just become too clogged with spam to fulfill its function anymore.
I regularly visit Reddit and broaden my horizon considerably through that avenue. The other day I clicked through to the site one hundred push ups. The site has the premise that anyone can train themselves up to do one hundred consecutive push ups with just six weeks of training.
I would tend to agree with them, and since I’m not at 100 yet I decided to take the challenge.
(more…)Reading my comics today sluggy freelance had a filler comic by Erica Henderson. Browsing around on her blog I noticed she had taken several nerd tests. Of course I couldn’t help taking them also.
(more…)I know it’s a little late to post a link to an article after it’s been on Digg, however, I think this article is the closest I’ve seen to revealing the secret of why Pixar is so successful.
“All these other animation groups want to be like Pixar, but they steal the wrong things from them. They don’t steal the actual process, which is take your time, hold out for the good stuff, which is kind of what `Ratatouille’ is all about.’ Don’t just stuff yourself with bland garbage. Wait for the good stuff.”
Apple, Inc. has made an art of not talking about its products. Fans, journalists, and rumormongers who love it or love to hate it have long had to practice a sort of Kremlinology to gather the merest hints as to what is coming next out of Cupertino.
Very interesting article about the way Apple designs their products. An interesting read for anyone who care about design, Apple, or both.
There’s a new movie in town, like the stylized rendition of Sin City it is based on a graphic novel by Frank Miller. The movie is called 300 and loosely based on the battle in which 300 Spartans stood against the might of the Persian empire. I did not know this until today, but apparently a great deal of controversy surrounds the movie:
In just 12 days the article received over 110 comments, something of a small wonder considering this is my personal blog, a site that attracts less than 1,000 visitors per day. It became apparent then, and even more so when I read an article in Newsweek by Evan Thomas, that this was a broad and heated political issue.
Movie critic Neil Miller tries to make heads and tails in the controversy in The 300 Controversy: Fact vs. Fiction. Like Neil Miller I don’t really see the point, but his piece is well written.
Henrik Svensmark, a weather scientist at the Danish National Space Centre who led the team behind the research, believes that the planet is experiencing a natural period of low cloud cover due to fewer cosmic rays entering the atmosphere.This, he says, is responsible for much of the global warming we are experiencing.
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Nike has just added Map It functionality to the the Nike+ website.
This functionality allows you to draw routes and assign them to your runs.
I have drawn my first route: Rundt om Jægersborg which is one of my “regular” routes. I must admit I get very bored running the same route too often (more than twice in a month), so talking about regular for me is a bit of a stretch. However, I feel this makes me qualified to rate the ease of the mapping tool since I’ll be using it a lot, and I’ve tried many tools already.
(more…)In my previous post I complained of all the comment spam I received. The deluge yesterday was the last straw and I upgrade wordpress today. Along with the upgrade I got a Wordpress API key and activated the Akismet plugin.
Several of my “online” friends have spoken well of Akismet, and funnily enough, the first comment since my Wordpress upgrade was a recommendation for Akismet. Although his comment came too late, I want to thank Eby for taking the time to write a few lines.
Along with my upgrade to Wordpress 2.0.3 I also moved my site from www.jonas.rabbe.com to jonas.rabbe.com along with the no-www plugin by PhotoMatt. No more WWW on my site.
I also moved Susan’s site from Movable Type to Wordpress. I still haven’t designed a theme for her, but I hope she’ll like Wordpress as much as I do. With her move came 143 comments, how many of those are comment spam I don’t know, at least Wordpress is easier for deleting comments than Movable Type 2.66. And as a final gesture I deleted the last traces of Movable Type from our web server.
Update: Now I’ve had Akismet running for about a week, and I have had no comment spam. Of course, I pretty much haven’t had any comments either. To tell you the truth, it’s a bit worrying. I’ve been used to getting several hundred comments spams over a weekend, and not even getting any in the Akismet spam queue is a little weird. I don’t know if it’s because I haven’t received any comments, or if they have just been deleted silently, correct me if I’m wronge, but I don’t think Akismet does that.
Oopsdate: I turned off the auto moderate plugin, but forgot to remove the function call from the theme. In that simple way I made it impossible for anyone to comment on my site explaining why I didn’t receive any at all. Thanks to Joen for spotting that.
Final update: Removing the function call did the trick, at least I’ve received plenty of comment spam since last night. And one even came through Akismet… tsk. tsk. tsk…
Comment spam has, unfortunately, been a part of blogging for me pretty much from the start. It was the reason I changed the wordpress with it’s easier comment administration interface.
Lately however, it has become extreme. Yesterday I received 541 pieces of comment spam! If that is not extreme I don’t know what is, especially for a site with maybe 100-200 unique hits a day, the majorite of whom are viewing one page.
The high number of comment spam has also highlighted another problem. I have all new comments (from people who haven’t commented before) go into the moderation queue where I then delete them before they turn up on my page. Loading a page with 515 comments (I had deleted some during the day yesterday) takes a looooooooong time. In fact it takes so long that the Textile 2 plugin I use for formatting my entries and comments times out… I actually have to turn off the plugin to delete all the comment spam.
I guess it’s about time I start thinking about upgrading Wordpress and looking into comment spam plugins.
