Neil Notes – Just another WordPress weblog

Thanks Akismet!

2018-05-272018-05-27 Neil 0 Comments

This blog was protected from thousands of pieces of SPAM (the last count was almost 160,000) by Akismet for many years. However,

2016-12-192017-02-05 Neil 0 Comments

On 2016-12-19, this blog came under attack by some kind of botnet. They were trying to log in to the admin interface,

2016-05-092021-12-20 Neil 5 Comments

I use Akismet to get rid of 99.9% of the spam comments sent to my blog. Occasionally, Akismet puts less

2016-03-262016-05-11 Neil 0 Comments

Well now I know what the PHP files dropped on my server by spammers do – they send out masses

2016-03-072016-04-07 Neil 0 Comments

This blog was struck by spammers (or spambots judging by how many posting came from so many places). They dropped

2011-12-01 Neil 0 Comments

I was at a talk last week where a blogger encouraged people to allow commenting on their sites. I have

2010-05-192016-05-11 Neil 0 Comments

If my experiences, and the experiences of loads of other folks, are any guide, getting the Apple iPad to sync

2010-03-282016-05-11 Neil 1 Comment

A couple of months ago, I was unable to log in to one of my online bank accounts because I

2010-03-282010-03-28 Neil 0 Comments

This 1991 book by Carl Sagan has lost none of its relevance or power since it was written. Carl Sagan,

2010-01-022010-03-28 Neil 0 Comments

This 1991 book by Thomas Gilovich, subtitled “The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life”, is very readable and very