Archive for July 12th, 2007

Just a few more little things I found on the internet I thought were interesting given our current climate.  The continued is a funny little video of soldiers goofing off.  Beware the script autoplays.

A quick quote:
“Only two defining forces have offered to die for you,
Jesus Christ and American GI’s.
One Died for your soul,
The other dies for your freedom.”

A couple of years ago I was forced to turn off the trackback feature in my sites.  I was getting hit 50 – 100 times a day by spammers using the system to increase their own ends.  Since then, I have been waiting for something that would block trackback spam.  It seems I have found it in Akismet, more specifically Akismet for EE.

The program, which started as a Wordpress plugin, basically runs all your comments through the Akismet servers, and if the comment author, URL, etc is listed in their database the comment is blocked.  If the system thinks there is something fishy with the comment, but it could be good, it sends it to a moderation queue for the admins to decide.  Every comment marked as spam is added to the database automatically, increasing the learning curve for the program.  Its works wonderfully, and since Akismet runs on over 20 different platforms, the spam database has a much larger pool of contributors than the EE Blacklist does.