by Rob Cottingham | May 19, 2006 | Blogging
The past week has seen a flurry of new user registrations on this blog. Which is extremely suspicious, because I don’t actually have a link anywhere to the user registration page. (Also, they’re all using very similar-sounding Russian e-mail accounts.) My... by Rob Cottingham | Jan 28, 2006 | Blogging
If you’re being tortured by comment spam on your WordPress blog, have a look at Akismet, the plugin from the folks who brought you, well, WordPress. The secret sauce: cooperation. Akismet relies on clever folks like you and me to help teach it what is and... by Rob Cottingham | Sep 30, 2005 | Blogging, Everything Else, Technology
I’ve just been comment-spammed from the IP address 142.22.186.12. What’s interesting about that particular address is that it belongs to the British Columbia Systems Corporation… a division of your friendly provincial government. Eeep. I’ve... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 25, 2005 | Politics, Technology
Against my better judgement, in a moment of weakness, I voted at the so-called National Marriage Referendum site (run by “Defend Marriage Canada”, which under truth-in-packaging laws will soon be renamed “Restrict Marriage Canada”). They...