Adventures As Me

Joel presents a very fine analysis of the situation: should highly visible bloggers accept gifts?
His conclusion? No, because such gifts amount to a bribe. With this I agree. Afterall, the same metric is often applied against other people in ‘positions’ of trust. Public Officials, for example must follow explicit, detailed guidlines when accepting gifts, especially [...]

The last few weeks, I’ve observed my blog, waiting for comment spam to occur. It finally did. My blog software is Loquacity-alpha1, which is a continuation of bBlog as mentioned earlier.
At this point I’m not certain if spammers are able to bypass the captcha or whether its due to a coding error (for example, not [...]

I am testing how to post Javascript.
Testing complete. To add Javascript to a post, use the none modifier.

I did it. As noted below I needed a way to mass delete comments in bBlog. After searching the bBlog forums, I could not find anything, thus I decided to see how difficult it would be.
The answer is: not very. A little editing and now I can mass delete or mass approve comments. Sharing is [...]

Switching from BLOG:CMS to bBlog has an interesting effect. Suddenly my site is deluged with comment spam. Thankfully I mark all comments containing hyperlinks as needing approval before posting. With BLOG:CMS I received not one spam comment in the year I used it. Today I checked the comment moderation section. 235 comments awaiting approval, all [...]