Goodbye Kilroy! In my continued War on Spam I added captcha to my site. These past two weeks of random Spam messages in my contact section, with obvious Spam subject matter, has been pissing me off. It was fairly simple to install. I used Simon Jarvis’ PHP library from White Hat Web Design using up only a few minutes for integration.

Upgrading my blog software took less than 10 minutes, the majority of it backing up my database. However an upgrade wasn’t today’s goal — eliminating blog spam was.

Recently I’ve been getting more and more Spam bots posting home mortgage and penis enlargement comments on my site. Debt consolidation, gambling? Reminds me of that one Chappelle Show sketch. But not any more! After careful analysis of image verification solutions, the kind where you type in and match those goofy pictures (technically called captcha), I decided to go with the non-capcha fix, Automattic Kismet.

Akismet: Anti-Spam Wordpress Plug-in

The Wordpress plug-in, better called Akismet, installed in like two minutes. One minute was spent creating a Wordpress API Key. Super simple! Yes it comes shipped with Wordpress but installing a newer version only needs the uploading of two files. Auf Wiedersehen Spam!

Does anyone appreciate good nerd humor as much as I do? C’mon people!

Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says “I’ve lost my electron.” The other says “Are you sure?” The first replies “Yes, I’m positive.”

How about a really bad pun?

Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and, with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.