Spam

  • Trackback Disabled

    I disabled trackbacks on the entire blog. I’m tired of dealing with the spam. Perhaps if Haloscan puts something together that makes some effort at blocking it I’ll think about it again, but for now, it’s too much work deleting the dozens of spam trackbacks every single day. While the trackbacks will still appear in…

  • Random Notes

    What were we thinking? We scheduled a Friends of the Library committee meeting for 7:30AM the Tuesday after Daylight Savings Time starts? It takes me almost a week to get adjusted to the time change usually, getting up an hour earlier than usual to drive across town won’t help that process. Some might say that…

  • Spamalot

    Are some of the Spam Cures Worse than the Disease? That the headline of the lead story in the latest WinXPnews. They go on to mention the large number of reader emails they get and how few of them they actually have time to personally answer, and how, when they do take time to answer,…

  • Something to think about..

    Kevin is working on a year-end podcast. He has an assignment: Since this will be my last podcast before Christmas, I’m giving you all an assignment for a End of Year Podcast. Either send in audio feedback, ..OR.. call the listener line (206-888-4488), ..OR.. call the Skype line (callto://inthetrenches), and leave your input regarding 1)…

  • Upgrading

    Upgraded the Movable Type and PhpBB installs over on the other site last night. That should help with comment spam and the security problem with PhpBB. Both went off pretty easily. I’d highly recommend them!

  • New and improved

    Movable Type version 3.14, in which SixApart try to lessen the server load caused by comment spam. Autoruns 6.1 Trillian 3.0, which I’ve been using for a couple of days and like, as always. If you’re running three different IM clients, you should think about trying it out. You’ll lose some of the more advanced…