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A Rare False Positive

October 26, 2008 – 2:27 pm

For the first time in a long time, Akismet mistakenly flagged a non-spam comment. The auto-flush spam comments on old posts has trimmed the spam cesspit by a huge margin, so non-spam comments are easier to find.
And, I plucked James‘ comment out of the dreck, and it’s available to all.
Not beating up on [...]

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Hoisting the Banner Again

October 23, 2008 – 7:40 pm

Thank heaven for WordPress updates, for giving me something to write about this evening. The occasion being, of course, the update of this old waste of pixels to WordPress 2.6.3. Smooth. Quick. Painless.
Thanks, WordPress, for making it easy.
-k-
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Writing on the Wall

September 19, 2008 – 7:36 pm

On a whim, about a month or so ago, I installed the WP Wall plugin and widget. The widget sits in the right sidebar over there. From the plugin author’s site, WP Wall provides this:
Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the [...]

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Akismet Slickness

August 17, 2008 – 2:43 pm

I don’t know how long this option has been in Akismet, but there’s now a checkbox labeled Automatically discard spam comments on posts older than a month
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Following the recent WordPress 2.6.1 upgrade, I noticed the option when reactivating plugins post-upgrade. I checked it, and my incoming spam trap has been squeaky clean. This is [...]

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Latest, Greatest

August 15, 2008 – 7:27 pm

I may get under 10 million hits a month here at this old blog; that doesn’t hinder me in upgrading to 2.6.1 WordPress. I just got finished; another flawless upgrade.
Thanks, WordPress!
-k-

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