because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 5th, 2008
There seem to be two schools of thought regarding comments on personal blogs. Prominent sites like Daring Fireball don’t allow comments, and moreover, explain why. Other equally prominent sites have huge comment threads on nearly every post published.
Zanshin.net is by no means prominent. After nearly eight years of having a blog I [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 1st, 2007
In the last couple of weeks the amount of trackback spam my site has been subject to has skyrocketed. In all the time I’ve been using MoveableType to manage the site I’ve only had a handful of trackback pings that were spam. In the last ten days I’ve had hundreds at a time.
Not wanting to [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Nov 17th, 2006
I’ve updated my resume page, and I’ve cleaned up some trackback spam from some of the older links.
Keeping ahead of the trackback spam is particularly annoying. My email spam filter grabs the notifications of new trackbacks and throws them in the spam folder when the trackback itself tastes like spam. Since there are some 700 [...]
Posted in nerdliness, random on Jun 18th, 2006
As I have had the same email address for over ten years now I get a ton of spam; upwards of 500 a day. Yes, five hundred. As a consequence I use an industrial strength Bayesian spam filter to clean out my inbox. In a week’s time the filter traps and segregates 3500-4000 spam messages [...]
