Last night I got 2500 spam comments, which is a lot for me. Spam Karma 2 caught ALL of them, but I don’t like giant logfiles of spam comments, so I have just upgraded to Bad Behavior 2. UPDATE: As the author of the plugin notes, this is a pre-release version. I sometimes wonder if [...]
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend among American restaurants: the club sandwich has been downsized from three slices of bread to two, which in my mind makes it just another sandwich. I suppose it may be a return to authenticity, as this quote from food diety James Beard suggests: [the club sandwich] is one of the [...]
Chris Rhee publishes the highly-entertaining My Mean Girl blog, which is one of my favorite reads. Because of his blog, I have hope that someday I’ll meet a suitable-crazy woman to fall in love with. And in the meantime, reading about his pain keeps me from being too anxious about it happening any time soon [...]
Someone I had chatted with via email a few months ago apparently got some spam about “online bingo”, clicked on the “unsubscribe” link, and it then exposed their entire gmail address contact list. According to this post, through some Javascript trickery the entire contact list can be harvested by a spammer if you click on [...]
Lately I’ve been getting email on one of my unpublished email addresses. It’s the kind of fun mail that we all love, with email attachments of a mysterious nature. But what’s really mysterious is how this email address got “out in the open” to begin with.
I was updating some plugins, most notably wp-cache, wp-hashcash, and wp-contact form. I’ve been bitten on the ass by changes to the WP Contact Form before because of my finicky email setup, so I tested it again to make sure it’s still working. And it’s not. After an hour or so of fiddling, I think [...]
Some asshole is apparently using my domain as a return address for their bullshit spam, and as a result I get to reconfigure all my mail filters to ignore the bogus users. Whee. I can’t wait for validated email to become a standard.
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