Monthly Archives: March 2007

Deleting thousands of spam comments

What I hadn’t realized was that my old MovableType export included thousands of spam comments…now in this WP blog. I installed SpamKarma 2 but found it still awkward to work through them. So thanks to Dreamhost’s excellent setup, I was able to fire up phpMyAdmin and connect directly to my blog db and fire off [...]

Fighting Comment Spam with Captchas

Too depressing to go into, but yet again energy is required to deflect abuse of the net by spammers. I’m trying out the Anti-spam plug-in from NIO, available here: http://nio.infor96.com/archives/369

Dragging My (MT) Past Into My (WP) Future

I wrote a bunch of posts over the years at a prior ISP, running MovableType. It turned out that MT was such a security hole, they had to shut it down. There were more pressing issues in my life, so I wasn’t blogging much and let it go. But when I landed here at Dreamhost [...]

Blue Ant X3 Micro Bluetooth Headset

I’ve been using the Blue Ant headset for a few weeks now, and wanted to put down a few notes: It looks really great and has nifty light sequences in blue and red. It’s lightweight. It’s reasonably priced (I paid about $40 in NYC at J&R). It’s got a super-clever recharging setup via USB cable [...]