You know you’re dealing with a lazy blog comment spammer when they don’t even bother to choose which message to use from the list they got somewhere, or which word variations to include in the message. Found in the spam filter today (And this is only a portion of the comment): {I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing}…
In the wake of Robin Williams death earlier this week, I’ve been thinking a lot about how different people reacted, what they said on social media and this Freakonomics podcast about suicide. The question I keep coming back to is this. If there is a demonstrable increase in the number of suicides after one well-publicized…
I’ve been using a couple of AddThis plugins on this site recently, in an effort to make it easier for folks to share things that they find interesting on the site, or to encourage folks to share or like the Facebook page, etc. Tonight, however, I’m deactivating AddThis on the site. The reason? This article…
Found this article the other day, and as I read through it, I discovered that even for a WordPress oldhead like me, there were some good reminders on using PHPMyAdmin to get database backups quickly, restore backups and more importantly a hood reminder about occasionally going and optimizing the database tables. Hadn’t done that in…
As you may know, I decided to give LinkedIn’s publishing platform a try after it was opened up to me, and many others. To further the experiment, I also pushed out links to just about every social network I could, pointing to the LinkedIn piece. I pimped it more than I usually pimp a post…
One of the challenges of hosting your own site and using WordPress is security. As WP has gotten more and more popular, it has become a huge target for hackers of all sorts. I’ve had my own fair share of old installations getting hacked and causing problems for live sites, rogue files, brute force login…