I have to admit, I was quite satisfied using WordPress with www.stargazer.at as cms for my portal page as it is quite flexible and somehow extendable with plugins. But it is too small for being a full blown portal site. So I switched to drupal. But no panic, this blog will stay on wordpress…
The first day without spam
Today is a reason to party: My anti spam modifications are working. The Akismet Spam Queue was empty today and some normal comments were posted!
Anti-Spam
Ok guys out there, updating me on viagra and stocks every day with more than 40 comments a day, I am pissed by now andtightening measures. First of all, postings older than 120 days will be closed. Exceptions are handled by me. Next thing is that I will filter out comments having BBCode in them as it is […]
Comment it!!
I do not know for how long I have been avoiding updating my old PHP projects and dig into them for getting them to the new standards. But trust me – reading your own code thinking ‘what the hell did I think while writing that’ is not funny. I spent yesterday in rewriting most stuff due to hardly […]
Spam is expensive
Thanks to my spamfilter the amount of spam mails reaching my mailbox is very low, without blocking my normal mailing. If I would not have that filter, I would have about 200 junk mails per day in my inbox. This would be about 73000 mails per year. For sorting spam and ham I would need about an hour […]
Petting zoo in Feldkirch?
Another year passed by and it is time for the Montfort event, the medieval market of Feldkirch. It is like a home match for me. So I decided to come around. My chain mail and leather armor should go with me. But you know the people? They could not keep their fingers and dumb questions off me. The […]