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Defensio Died, Akismet’s Back and Other Fun
It’s about time for another update on the happenings around here. So without further ado…
Defensio, the other anti-spam service and competitor to Akismet, apparently corrupted it’s own database table today which effectively rendered my admin useless and just about locked up my site while it was at it. I got my first clue this morning [...]
Posted in JT Evening News
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Also tagged Defensio, plugins, security, spam, spam service, Wordpress
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Automattic’s Doing Something Right.
Matt Mullenweg, Toni Schneider and the crew at Automattic should be giving out lessons to the world’s major businesses in how to succeed since it seems while everyone else is going down the tubes and contemplating doom and gloom, Automattic and it’s various endeavors are developing like mad, sipping at funds, gaining $29.5 million in [...]
Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part II
Required reading: Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part I
Many thanks to Grandad. This absolutely horrendous, disjointed post is all his fault but he’ll probably blame it on K8.
And here we go….
I seem to be getting older these days. Not only am I getting older but it seems to be becoming a habit, a perpetual thing if [...]
Posted in Memes the word
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Also tagged 1st Writings, absentmindedness, advertising, bad behavior, being deaf, Blogging, blogging community, boomer, boomers, cats, clean energy, cold war, comments, Community, deafness, digital democracy, disabilities, endoscopy, Environment, Firefox, first post, friends, Gadgets, global warming, Google, health, hearing impaired, hernia, Holidays, humor, Info, internet, Life as a veteran, Liz Strauss, Long Meadow Farms, metrics, misc nonsense, morning, northeast, northeast kingdom, nuclear weapons, Ocean Mist, person of the year, plugins, pogo, quilting, quilts, Reflections, scribefire, seasons, SEO, spam, Spam Karma, spam protection, Spring, springfield, stained glass, stove pipe city, submariners, surgery, the blog, The News, things, Time magazine, UK, ultimate tag warrior, vet, veteran, Vista, warm winter, weather, windows live writer, winter, Wordpress, wordpress 2.1, wordpress 2.2, Wordpress 2.3, WP plugins, writing
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Trackbacks Blocked by Overzealous Spam Blocker
Just when you think everything is going smoothly you find out something is awry and today when I checked my Dashboard I noticed I had a few new incoming links displayed in Google’s Blog search box as well as Technorati’s. So what the hell happened to the trackbacks that were supposed to be there.
Aaarrrgh!
Seems that [...]
Posted in Just Thinkin
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Also tagged comments, first post, Google, Liz Strauss, plugins, spam, Wordpress
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Switched from Akismet to Defensio
Ah, the weirdness never ends does it. After troubleshooting a very weird problem for a friend of mine on her WordPress install I came back to my fine running install only to find strange unexplained SQL errors in my error log. On top of that I seemed to have spam comments entered into the error [...]