Krhis’s Journal

Why would I be happy that my blog is getting comment spam? Because it’s gaining some popularity… too bad it’s automated.

I discovered that there is already a plugin designed to take care of this problem included with every Wordpress install, it’s called Akismet. But I would need a WordPress.com API key to use this service, which is understandable as it checks comments against the Akismet database to see if they look like spam or not. I signed up for Wordpress account using my Spam Motel email address, got my API key, and activated the plugin a minute later. Painless, unlike some other things I’ve done in the past.

In other news I added some things to the quotes page and have been working on a pastebin. For those of you who don’t know; a pastebin is a web application which allows users to upload snippets of text, usually samples of source code, for public viewing. And as with most of my projects you can download the sourcecode here.

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