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Re: Die Spammers Die

John A Thomson — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 06:37:53 -0000

Have been plagued by various types of Wordpress comment spam throughout the last lifetime of my blogs. Everytime I try something the spammers come back a while later with a new technique.

Now been pretty much SPAM free for quite a few months. The following Wordpress modules made the difference for me, along with some tweaks on my website control panel:

Spam Karma 2
Bad Behaviour
Mod-Rewrite Trackback Spam Blocker

Hope that helps someone.

Regards

John

Re: DMIESSLER.COM: 2006 Platform Statistics

John A Thomson — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:55:31 -0000

Perhaps fixing the scripting errors when viewing the website with IE or an aggregator that uses the IE rendering engine would improve the IE share.

Re: Engineers: This Is How NOT To Do A Presentation

John A Thomson — Mon, 28 May 2007 22:15:49 -0000

I once worked on Perkin Elmer projection aligners (semi-conductor equipment used in the photolithography process) that had a part called an "articulated waffle-tree" or maybe it was "articulated wiffle-tree". My memory isn't so great when recalling that far back! Regardless, it is mildly amusing.

One of my colleagues once told a clueless production supervisor that the implanter would be down for another 12 hours because "they were waiting on the dilithium crystals recharging." The supervisor went to a production meeting and spouted this line out with enthusiasm, only to find a room of people sniggering and chuckling themselves to death! Obviously not a trekkie!!!

Re: Sick Computer Throne

John A Thomson — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:36:06 -0000

I want one.

Re: Great Honda ad

John A Thomson — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 06:02:42 -0000

Hey Scoble, you've obviously not seen these viral adverts from Microsoft:

http://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/live...

http://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/live...

They are certainly heading in the right direction over those suckie Microsoft adverts that only the marketing folk seem to like!

Just hope they got permission from George Lucas to use the Ewok ;-).

Re: Wacky problems with my blog

John A Thomson — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:25:24 -0000

How about some technical info on the problem so it may help out other Wordpress users in the future who are having the same issue?

Re: Xbox’s still in high demand

John A Thomson — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:29:21 -0000

You had better grab one quick before Lucent force Microsoft to withdraw them all!!!

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/04/05/lucent_...

Regards

John

Re: A recruiter’s best friend

John A Thomson — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:24:25 -0000

That principle kind of breaks when you have a VERY common name! In that case you'll need to be doing a bit more intelligent research / searching of the net.

I've always found recruitment consultants to be useless! Used them once and ended up in a job that I really wasn't suitable for and more importantly left within 10 months. Nearly all the recuiters I've used as both hirer and hiree (if that's a real word), have been more interested in filling job vacancies than finding the right candidate! Perhaps being commissioned based has something to do with that.

For all the "self importance" whingers, you have an option .... UNSUBSCRIBE! Why waste your time reading Scoble if you don't believe him or think he is just a self important, opinionated (insert prefered expletive) *!*$*F(! ?

p.s. Gary wont leave Dundee, Scotland so your company will need to relocate to the land of haggis and whisky ;-).