1,000 spam caught by Akismet!

• May 26, 2006
• James Skemp

As of this morning, exactly 1,000 spam have been caught by Akismet for this site. Not too shabby. Unfortunately, I don't know when this started, but it was before I got really hit.

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Akismet stats now available online

• May 23, 2006
• James Skemp

Akismet, one great WordPress plugin if you'll be accepting public comments, now has made available global stats on http://akismet.com/stats/. What's scary is the amount of spam per 'ham' (non-spam).

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AdSense on the spammer sites

• May 15, 2006
• James Skemp

It's about time one of the heavy hitters realizes what some of us smaller hitters have realized a long time ago; cut out a spammer's revenue, you hit the spammer the only place they care about - their wallets.

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The Earth: Blue Marble

• May 15, 2006
• James Skemp

A couple of weeks ago I was alerted to NASA's Earth photography. Really, it's amazing work. visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2363

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Holidays and birthdays

• May 14, 2006
• James Skemp

My birthday happens to be today, and when I started checking my email this morning, I was presented with 4 different birthday greetings, from 4 different forums. I'm aware that forums have been doing this for a long time, so what struck me is the forums I signed up for, but don't remember doing so :D (That's also a little security-scary¹, but I know I'm signed up with many more that don't appear to be sending birthday greetings.)

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Root /Vault

• April 24, 2006
• James Skemp

Thanks to some great service yesterday, I've successfully logged into my Vault again, and am seeing actual data. I have a day and a half of data, but I'm already quite impressed with the user interface. I'm also extremely impressed by the feedback I've received from individuals involved in the project. This is definitely something that I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops in the near future. They've definitely hit on something big.

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Status update on logging into my Root /Vault

• April 22, 2006
• James Skemp

Thanks to some great support, I'm now able to log in to my Vault.  Now that I'm in, I'll be bouncing around items a bit more.  There's also some great articles that I'd like to comment on, that revolve around the project, so that'll end up meaning new philosophy-related posts (instead of just the porting-over of old ones. Hooray!

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AttentionTrust and problems with /ROOT

• April 19, 2006
• James Skemp

If my last post got you interested in the AttentionTrust project, and you downloaded the extension, are using it now, and are reading this on StrivingLife.net (whew, lot's of 'if's), then you may have noticed that StrivingLife.net is now a certified member.  What does that mean for you? First, that I agree with four principles that the AttentionTrust organization puts forward; 1. Property : You own your attention and can store it wherever you wish.

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Attention: Where do you put it?

• April 18, 2006
• James Skemp

In some way, I found AttentionTrust.org. Basically, AttentionTrust operates under the principle that your attention is both yours, and of worth.

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On Yahoo! Slurp, Googlebot, and msnbot

• April 16, 2006
• James Skemp

Being able to look at the statistics for a couple of different sites, with very different audiences, I've found one common thread, which is quite alarming. Before you go any further, it has to do with bots and search engines, so if you're not interested in either, you can probably safely skip this post.

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