Will the Karma pains never end? This time it is Referrer Karma

December 24th, 2004 I have been unable to submit a comment in a site with spam karma enabled. So I wrote a comment in the spam karma plugin site.

December 24th, 2004 My recipe for getting rid of comment spam once and for all: Install WordPress 1.2.1 or later. Install ImageAuth hack Go to Options Tab.

July 2nd, 2007 Twitter is down again. Initially I was getting down for maintenance messages.

January 16th, 2007 I have experiemented with all the available WordPress plugins for comment spam protection including but not limited to Bad Behaviour, Spam Karma 2, Akismet and built-in WordPress features like blacklists and moderation queue. We have to deal with tens of thousands of spam everyday.

November 28th, 2005 Imagine a pickpocket leaving a note in the pocket they have picked informing the victim that they are very sorry about picking their pocket and what he can do to rectify the situation. Neil found ethical spammers in his wiki (read about wiki spamming) who left a note after they spammed: < !– We leave content intact.

April 28th, 2005 Sometimes I find people evangelizing some religion through comment spamming. Is it spamming? I think it is.

February 2nd, 2007 Update: Comment Guard pro has been released. Please check the features here.

March 26th, 2007 We are completely renovating the office for better, more spacier accomodation. The new electrical outlets and LAN connectivity is almost completed.

February 12th, 2005 I accidentally stumbled upon a site ( spam-guard[dot]blogspot[dot]com ) which exists for the sole purpose of spamming. It is a spam blog or splog! For sometime spammers have targeted blogs, first through comment spam and now increasingly through trackback spam.

August 27th, 2005 That is the conclusion of a team of medical researchers in Britain and Switzerland, who reviewed a mountain of published evidence. They compared 110 trials of homeopathic remedies against a placebo with 110 trials of conventional medicines, which were also tested against placebos.

November 22nd, 2008 While writing an article about the best security plugins of Wordpress, I felt the need to touch another very important security issue for the bloggers, and i.e. Anti Spam Plugins.

August 2nd, 2005 Russia’s most notorious spammer, Vardan Kushnir, 35, was found dead in his apartment in downtown Moscow on Monday, July 25. Someone repeatedly smashed his head with a heavy object and then ransacked his entire apartment according to authorities.

July 27th, 2006 Andy Patrizio learned the hard way that Windows Genuine Advantage can be a disadvantage in disguise and all without any fault of his own. Such cases apparently flies in the face of Microsoft assertion that only a handful of genuine false positives have been identified.

January 18th, 2007 Yesterday I talked about developing a comment spam prevention plugin with zero false positives. I am currently using it on all of our blogs.

March 24th, 2009 One of the frequently complained problems while using nginx or lighttpd, two popular and rapidly growing web servers which are faster and lighter alternatives to big daddy Apache web server, with php (through fastcgi interface) is that the pool of php-cgi which ultimately serves the php pages seems to hang frequently and without any apparent reasons. This is also the reason you will see the most common error on nginx website is the dreaded 503 - Gateway Time out.