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Results are in, WordPress gets as much spam as movabletype
That didn’t take long. Last night I pointed the domain name to the new WordPress server. This morning I had 50 spam comments held for moderation. I was impressed the spammers had noticed the blog change so quickly, then I thought the robots probably change their behaviour depending on the comment page. Clever those spammers.…
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Block web spammers by their IP address
Every so often someone tries to post spam to this blog using a computer program. They never manage to because even if their computer does solve the captcha I manually approve every post. It’s not like there are a lot of posts here after all. Anyway, I’ve been meaning for a long time to work…
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Brother Dave goes on a cycling holiday, we track his position live by GPS
Brother Dave decided to go on a cycling holiday, from Oslo in Norway to Copenhagen in Sweden. His Nokia phone has built in GPS and with a little software from http://www.mapmytracks.com/ and a not inexpensive data contract with O2 (mostly needed so we can pester him with work email while he travels) we’re able to…