Quoth Akismet:

Akismet has caught 32,749 spam for you since you first installed it.

Wow. I’m not sure what I’d do without that plug-in for WordPress.

Looks like WordPress 2.1 will be released tomorrow. Here’s a list of some of the new features that will be included, as well as some things you need to know about (e.g. MySQL versions).

Related: Using nonces in WordPress.

Update: Ella is here!

Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.7 tonight. As usual, it was a snap.

Back in August I linked to a story about the possibility of external video cards. Now it looks like Asus is demo’ing one at CES.

On Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005 at 8:40 pm I made my first post to this weblog. Tomorrow it will officially be one year that I’ve been posting about Python (and a lot of other stuff), and this is my 500th post. Very cool.

Thanks for reading. :)

Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.5 tonight. This release includes “mostly minor bug fixes around feeds, custom fields, and internationalization.”

As usual, the upgrade was quick, easy, and painless.

It wasn’t as significant as last time, but it looks like there was a spike in traffic the other day due to some linkage from Digg related to my SSH HOWTO:

Right now it’s at around 855 diggs.

I just upgraded the site to WordPress 2.0.4 tonight. Seems to have gone well. The WP devs certainly do a nice job keeping everything simple.

Just a quick proof of concept post from the Palm Tungsten C I picked up on Ebay. Seems to work pretty well so far…

Comment spam used to be nothing more than a tiny annoyance, but as this site’s traffic has increased so has the amount of spam. Currently it all goes into a moderation queue until I approve/delete it. It’s not a huge burden to check the queue once in a while and process the comments, but I figured there had to be a better way.

Based on a suggestion from Lon, I installed Akismet tonight.

Akismet (free API key required) uses a collaborative web service to decide if each comment is spam or not. If it gets tagged as (potential) spam, it goes into a special queue that is automatically deleted after 15 days. So, assuming I don’t get a lot of false positives, I should be set.

We’ll see how it goes, but so far so good.