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October 8th, 2008 Simple Thoughts now has a working Subscribe-by-email facility. Unlike many other blogs which provide this facility, we do not use FeedBurner.

July 13th, 2006 We are working to provide a better mailing list for our blog readers who prefer to subscribe by email. The current provider bloglet.com is unreliable at times.

June 6th, 2006 What is my agenda for Simple Thoughts blog? What are my goals? My goal is to provide accurate and quality information on java and web technologies. It includes providing code samples, software, wordpress plugins, software reviews, news and views, architectural discussions and much more.

August 23rd, 2007 The message was a surprise coming from Ryze, which I thought was pretty sane and non-spammy. On investigating their link I realized they want me to subscribe to their paid services to see who wants to network with me! While I am fine with monetization efforts, I just don't get it.

December 25th, 2004 I have put a new blog which lists hot jobs postings associated with software & bioinformatics industry, job leads available by word-of-mouth, mailings lists of alumni associations, java architects, java user groups, vc mailings lists etc. In other words postings, often for high profile jobs, which are normally accessible to inner circle only.

March 17th, 2005 It was surprising to find no comment spam after installing WordPress 1.5, noting that I haven't enabled CAPTCHA with this upgrade. However I soon realized that I wasn't receiving any normal comments too on very commentable articles.

March 17th, 2005 What happened After my WordPress 1.5 upgrade and enabling of an option to reject comments from open proxy, no comments (over 100) were appearing on my blogs. Moreover they were silently discarded.

June 12th, 2005 With the rapid proliferation of RSS Feeds and offline aggregators it is presumable that virus writers will try to exploit this avenue to spread the virus. But the question is whether it is feasible? In short technically a resounding YES.

December 7th, 2007 There is a widespread assumption by many bloggers that comments on old posts are mostly spam. There are several WordPress plugins to prevent commenting on old posts, even posts as recent as one month old like, for example, Akismet.

June 10th, 2006 I have been exploring externally managed commenting systems (example) and so I revisited Haloscan (registered in my blogger blogging days). The funniest part was their support forum.

September 23rd, 2008 This blog is actively protected by Comment Guard Pro, WordPress Comment Spam protection plugin for pro-bloggers and semi-pro bloggers. We don't allow any spam, even apparently innocuous ones in this blog.

October 21st, 2008 Have you *ever* received genuine Russian comments on English blogs? I receive many many of Russian comments everyday. Previously I used to translate them because my blog is multi-lingual and Russian is one of the 32 languages this blog is available, thanks to automated.

September 9th, 2007 Sometimes I see comments where the name of the person is not really his name but a popular keyword which obviously links to his website. While I understand the need to have link-love for useful comments and even encourage it, the name field shouldn't be abused by using keywords like "Web Banner Design", for example.

May 30th, 2006 I made a small change in commenting policy. I am experimentally blocking comments from "open and insecure proxies".

March 17th, 2005 Feel free to use this blacklist for your Blog. It can be added in Options/Discussion/Comment Blacklist text area.