Tag Archives: spam

Dear Miss D

By Kirk M | Published November 6, 2009

Dear Miss D
I want to express my heartfelt thanks for the short but thoughtful comments you left my last three posts, for your hopes that I feel better soon and especially the link back to that single page website with all those lovely photos of yourself. You are quite pretty. You weren’t cold dressed like [...]

Posted in Just Foolin | Also tagged 2 Comments

DoFollow Spam and Other Comment Type Improvements

By Kirk M | Published July 21, 2009

Within the last several months there’s been a change in the comment spam that’s plagued bloggers ever since the dregs of society first found out how they could benefit from leaving their crap in the comment sections of posts. You know the type; 20 offers for prescription medications along with another 15 offers to [...]

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Spammers welcome me home

By Kirk M | Published May 30, 2009

Once upon a time there was the Internet. Then came the World Wide Web (WWW). And later there were blogs and with the blogs came the comment spam. And at first the comment spam was written by human spam generators usually writing in some sort of faked broken English that made you think the comment [...]

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Canuckastan to Invade Vermont.

By Kirk M | Published February 24, 2008

Okay, let me explain. No, too much, let me sum up:

Grandad launched an ICBM at Chicago due to a Canadian spammer that wasn’t.
In retaliation, Sixty arranged to divert the defunct spy satellite clobbering missile and have it blow up a bog in Ireland.
The subsequently diverted missile hit Bristol, UK instead. That’s it. Nothing more on [...]

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JT Evening News-7th Edition

By Kirk M | Published February 16, 2008

After a rather long absence, once again we are here with yet another edition of the JT Evening News (published whenever I feel like it) covering what kind of nonsense I’ve been up to with the site. So without further ado…
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MyBlogLog Gets a New Widget and so do I

MyBlogLog has a new "Recent Readers" widget [...]

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Defensio Died, Akismet’s Back and Other Fun

By Kirk M | Published February 10, 2008

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 [...]

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Switched from Akismet to Defensio

By Kirk M | Published January 27, 2008

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 [...]

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Automattic’s Doing Something Right.

By Kirk M | Published January 23, 2008

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 [...]

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