OddThinking

I stumbled across the No NoFollow wiki site, and learnt a few lessons.

I am very excited. My experiment to see whether it would be possible to strike back against domain squatters has proven successful – at least in the lab.

OddThinking will be operating on a skeleton staff for about a month. During this time, there will be fewer articles than usual. I will also not be responding to comments very rapidly, so you should notice no change in service levels there. Very occasionally, spam sneaks through the Spam Karma spam filters. I was worried […]

Something really scary happened to me just now. I am trying to remain “alert but not alarmed”.

I got a couple of bounce messages.

Data point for the spam-trackers: There has been a big hike in detected spam comments recently over the past couple of weeks.

In which I discover that this sentence fragment is the most important part of the article, and other surprises.

On April 10, OddThinking celebrates its first anniversary.

Girtby.net’s first anniversary was celebrated with a retrospective of the year, and I found that to be quite fun, so I pay homage to that format here.

When read in Outlook, emails sent from WordPress are formatted poorly. I finally have a hypothesis to explain this behaviour.

Subscribers to my RSS comments feed may have noticed a recent increase in the number of “obvious” spams getting through.

The good news is I reported it to the author of SpamKarma. He has a solution in mind, and hopes to implement it very shortly.

It’s interesting how memory works and the way we observe things. It’s particularly interesting how memory fails to work, and we don’t notice it.