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Persistant Comment Spammer

2006-03-16 @ 21:35:23

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rants-and-raves

here.

I had a couple of interesting comments today, and when I viewed them in the list view, I noticed there was a comment awaiting moderation with the same format: But obviously a whole lot more links. If you look at the times, the one with heaps of links was posted first, and then it looks like the poster realised it wasn’t working, and posted comments without heaps of links, which made it into the comments stream. Needless to say, 1insurancereview has made it into my blacklist. And the word insurance is very close to making my moderate list. These are real comments, not trackbacks. I am finding a few Comment Spams now, I wonder if my JavaScript isn’t working?

Performancing Metrics

2006-03-15 @ 23:57:00

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performancing-metrics

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I’ve implemented Performancing Metrics on this blog. I used the following code:

        {capture name=cats}{the_category_rss}{/capture}
        <script type="text/javascript">
            z_post_title="{single_post_title}{single_cat_title}{single_month_title}";
            z_post_category="{$smarty.capture.cats|strip_tags|strip}";
        </script>
        <script id="stats_script" type="text/javascript" src="http://metrics.performancing.com/wp.js"></script>

Instead of the code given by the system.

Blogsome Mention

2006-03-08 @ 23:24:37

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blogsome

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creativepro.com - Putting Your Best Blog Forward Smith Jackson, over on creativepro.com, has written a nice article on how and why to blog: it’s fairly heavily pointed towards Blogger, but there is a mention of Blogsome, and more importantly, my site is the example of a Blogsome blog linked to. I only noticed because of a referer hit, so, welcome to all of my new visitors who came from that direction! If you are keen on signing up with Blogsome, please do so. It costs nothing, but be sure to sign up in the Forums too, and have a look at some of the features (and caveats) of this service. I’m a very happy customer with Blogsome.

Foreign Adsense Ad

2006-03-04 @ 23:33:32

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humour

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I had the following Adsense Ad on a page I viewed from my own site tonight: I don’t even know what it’s trying to sell! I think it’s something to do with a chat system. Let’s ask google:

Free Cat Accesses Direct Dialogue free simply! www.Chat-Land.Org Free Cat www.Chat-Land.Org

Oh, excellent! I’d forgotten that Chat means Cat in French! Someone’s giving away cats, and for some reason, my site got picked! I gotta get one! Free talking, and a Free Cat. • But seriously, why am I getting a French Ad on my site? Have I written anything in my blog about France, or in French? How does Google Adsense even know I did a little bit of French at Uni to try and meet girls (well, now I know how Google knows thisâ€¦).

Referer Counts

2006-03-02 @ 11:05:14

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I’m just going to quickly stroke my own ego a little bit. Apologies. In my Popular Posts list, I have about 1800 page reads of various items, but only stuff that is viewed as a single page is recorded here. Thus, hits on the main site page, or a category index page, or even a daily page with only one post on it, would not count as a view. I assume that this value refers to the past month, as it doesn’t seem to increase forever. If I look at my referer list for the past month, I see there have been just over 9000 page views on my site. This includes all page views, such as those discussed above that are not counted. That means 7000 views are either index page views, or more interestingly, _Long Tail _posts. That is, posts that are not in the top band of popular posts.

Tricky Trackback Spam

2006-02-03 @ 22:20:26

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rants-and-raves

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I noticed the following Comments, or rather Trackbacks, on a post to my blog today. As you can see from them, it is over a year since I posted the article, but the thing to note is that one comment seems to respond to the other: That’s all well and good, until you look at the post: It has nothing to do with the comments! That twigged me that it was Spam. And the fact that the URIs all point to the same domain. As does another Spam Trackback I received seconds after starting this post. techmp3.org is going into my Spam filterâ€¦

Viewing Asides

2006-02-02 @ 11:13:05

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asides

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I need to make it so that people can click a link and comment on Asides. At the moment, there is no visible way to view an Aside post page, other than if it appears in the Recent Posts list.

submitter

2005-12-12 @ 21:34:08

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rants-and-raves

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submitter I noticed this when looking through my referers tonight. It appears to be a Spam Comment entering system. Nasty stuff, by the look of it! I hope someone who knows something can do something with/about this.