August 22, 2006
Upgrading my MovableType install to 3.3
With the release of MovableType 3.3 it became free again to personal bloggers. This was great news to me since MT 2.6 was starting to feel very outdated and could barely keep away the comment spam even with MT-Scode installed. I had considered porting everything over to Word Press but that seemed like a hassle and was my last resort. The upgrade was a complete success, though I had to disable MT-Scode rather than deal with debugging it. No loss there though since MT 3.3 has great features built-in to combat comment and ping spam.
Continue reading "Upgrading my MovableType install to 3.3"January 13, 2006
The Importance of Using BCC for Bulk Mailing
Recently my cousin, whom I love dearly, invited myself and some others to a gallery opening he was planning. Unfortunately he made the mistake of sending the invitation via email with all the recipient addresses showing in the CC field instead of using the BCC field to hide them.
Continue reading "The Importance of Using BCC for Bulk Mailing"June 23, 2005
Comment Spam and Installing MT-Scode on OS X
Recently I've been getting a lot of comment spam. It ironic because I haven't even written anything lately. The truth is I've been distracting myself with installing Debian Sarge on my old Dell and I recently decided to pick up Objective-C and Cocoa programming. Needless to say, its frustrating that the only time I've been spending with my blog is removing comments about onl1ne gam6ling and pr0n. Porting the blogs hosted on my box to another platform was something that I didn't want to consider and my choices for solving this problem while keeping movable type 2.x.x were limited. I found mt-scode and now that its running I think it will solve the problem better then banning IPs or using mt-blacklist. However getting it to work on OS X 10.3.9 was a challenge.
Continue reading "Comment Spam and Installing MT-Scode on OS X"May 5, 2005
Referrer Log Spam
I started noticing strange referrers in my web logs and they were pr0n and advertising sites. I guess this has been around for a while, Wired wrote about it in 2002. I found the article above by doing a google search on the keywords in the title of this entry. At least my Moveable Type installation is smart enough not to list them as TrackBacks. So far so good.