Tag Archives: spam

Dear Miss D

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Kirk M

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 … Continue reading →

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DoFollow Spam and Other Comment Type Improvements

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Kirk M

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Just Thinkin, Wordpress | Tagged , , | 14 Comments

Spammers welcome me home

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Kirk M

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 … Continue reading →

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Canuckastan to Invade Vermont.

Posted on February 24, 2008 by Kirk M

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 … Continue reading →

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JT Evening News-7th Edition

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Kirk M

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 … Continue reading →

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Defensio Died, Akismet’s Back and Other Fun

Posted on February 10, 2008 by Kirk M

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 … Continue reading →

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Switched from Akismet to Defensio

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Kirk M

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 … Continue reading →

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Automattic’s Doing Something Right.

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Kirk M

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 … Continue reading →

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