Over the past 24 hours, WordPress users who utilize the Akismet plugin experienced a mass influx of spam (this blog included). We’ve received just a ton of help tickets in our Support Center about the amount of spam they’ve received. This was an Akismet issue and they’ve posted about it on their blog, including a statement that the problem has been resolved: Akismet blog: Downtime Comment/trackback spam is very frustrating – however, when Akismet experiences …
Archive for August, 2006
Ready for ie7 ?
I’m not – but that’s besides the point. IE7 is coming to many computers near you, whether you like it, or not. The soon-to-be-released update to everyone’s favorite browser will soon be packaged into automatic Windows updates (by the way – do yourself a favor and turn those off, eh?) – and Windows users all over the net will be subject to an upgrade. Sigh. And people wonder why I stockpile food in my cellar? …
My name is Lisa, I stockpile.
I was talking to a friend of mine recently.. just sharing, updating each other on life, yada yada. I made a comment about this thing I do in my house.. have been doing for quite some time, actually, and have gotten into the habit of doing that I don’t even think about it anymore. My friends says, “You know, after knowing you all these years – I never would have guess you’re a paranoid conspiracy …
Funny, I don't feel old
Funny thing about age.. it just creeps up on you when you least expect it, right? Take yesterday, for instance. I wasn’t feeling particularly old. Age has never really bothered me or been an issue for me. Especially in my 30′s – I’m in my prime, hey? Right?? So anyway – I make a visit to the eye doc yesterday. I’m due – it’s been three years since my last vision check up. I do …
Validation Funnies
Can’t remember where I came across this – but I chuckled, as only a developer could: Our W3C, which art on the net: Hallowed be thy markup. Thy workingdrafts come. Thy Specs be done in Mozilla as they are in Opera. Give us this day our daily XHTML, and forgive us our hacks and workarounds, as we forgive all tablebased designers. And lead us not to invalid code but deliver us from IE5. Amen.
socially, me