I keynote, write, and podcast about Sustainability, CleanTech and Supply Chain
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I read a very interesting article on Livejournal by Franklin on how, when his partners PC was infected by Spyware, he tracked down who was making money from the Spyware and reached some very interesting conclusions about who is distributing…
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Installed Spam karma instead of Spaminator
I had installed Spaminator (version: 1.0rc7) on this site to stop Comment Spam but Spaminator was deleting genuine comments (it deleted 2 of the last 3 genuine comments). The author didn’t respond to this issue – which, in fairness, is…
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New design – WordPress themes
I was looking into WordPress themes today and I found a few interesting sites with freely downloadable themes for WordPress 1.5. I found one called ShadedGrey that I liked so I downloaded it and made it active. I had a…
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Spaminator install
I followed Niall’s example and installed Spaminator on my blog – I have turned off the AuthImage plugin to make commenting easier for people. Spaminator seems quite good at catching spam comments but it deleted a comment today which was…
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How to rid a PC of viruses and malware
My parents have asked me to look at their neighbours PC – it has started ‘acting funny’ and “they think it might have a virus”, I was told. “Uh oh”, I thought. Here we go again. If you are the…
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Upgrade from WordPress 1.2.2 to WordPress 1.5 (Beta)
I upgraded my blog from WordPress 1.2.2 to WordPress 1.5 (Beta) today so if you notice any wierdness in this blog (over and above the norm!) you can put it down to that. The upgrade went reasonably well. First I…
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Combatting WordPress Trackback Spam
Having combatted WordPress comment spam I now tackle a new phenomenon, trackback spam
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Web standards compliance
Michele mentioned my post listing standards compliant websites in an article on his site this morning. He correctly pointed out that many development companies think that they can jack up the price when asked to produce standards compliant sites –…
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