Thanks TDavid!

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

If you haven’t noticed, my comments have been a little fritzy lately.  I’ve been playing with a couple of thing since I became frustrated with Akismet.  TDavid was nice enough to give me the info on the captcha software that he uses and even offered to allow me the use of a modification that he [...]

Bleeding Readers

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

So I go away for the weekend to come home and find that I’m bleeding readers.  At least according to Feedburner I am.  Is there something broken with Feedreader?  Google buys them and all of a sudden they don’t work well with reader anymore?  That would be ironic wouldn’t it.
Seriously.  If you are a reader [...]

There’s something rotten in the state of Akismet

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

I’ve had the absolute worst time with Akismet lately.  So much in fact that I am researching a few ways to replace it.  Akismet does do a pretty good job of weeding out the spam and it does learn fairly quickly when you mark something as spam.  The problem is in the false positives.  If [...]

Techcrunch buys InviteShare

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

I suppose that I’ve got to admit that TDavid was right about InviteShare being a pump and dump proposal.  In truth, I really didn’t expect them to sell it yet.  Didn’t seem like a very bright idea.  Since I wrote about it, they’ve managed over 14k members.  TechCrunch announced that they had bought it today.
Of [...]

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