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Word Press and Akismet —“ help needed

I use Word Press as my blogging tool and Akismet to fight back against comment spam. Both work great and I do love them – for their effectiveness, ease of use, and for the fact that they do what they say they will do.

I was just reading Lorelle VanFossen’s post: I’m Winning the Battle Against Comment Spam.

Blogs by nature are tools of social interaction. Social interaction, commenting, and discussion are the modus operandi behind blogging. Lorelle’s post is a good intro into how to keep it that way, without going overboard in shutting off the ability to interact because of some bad apples.

Well, following his her guidelines have helped me win the battle (thus far) and to engage new friends from a lot of different places. However, I do have an issue and I can’t seem to find the answer.

I use the Yahoo! installation of Word Press and their modified version of Akismet. Every few days my spam count gets reset to zero. I’ve searched and searched for an answer and I cannot seem to find anyone who’s experienced the same.

I’m running WP 2.0.2 with the following active plugins:

Audio player 1.2.3
Akismet for Yahoo! 1.12-Yahoo
Creative Commons Configurator 0.2
Digital Fingerprint Beta 0.2
Dagon Design Form Mailer 4.2
Flickr Widget 0.1
SimpleTagsPlus 1.0
wp-cache 2.0.17
WordPress Database Backup 1.7
Sidebar Widgets 1.0.20060711

Any ideas on how to overcome this behavior?

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1 in 57 million

From the BBC: Blogosphere sees healthy growth

The web’s love affair with blogging shows no signs of abating according to the latest report from blog tracking firm Technorati.

Every day 100,000 new blogs are created and 1.3 million posts are made, it found during its quarterly survey.

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“It indicates that blogging continues to play a critical role in debates about the important issues of our time” said David Sifry, the founder of Technorati.

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Technorati is now tracking more than 57 million blogs, of which it believes around 55% are ‘active’ – updated at least every three months.

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“Some of these are fully-fledged professional enterprises that post many, many times per day and behave increasingly like our friends in the mainstream media. The impact of these bloggers on our cultures and democracies is increasingly dramatic,” said Mr Sifry.

As the Young Fogey and others have often pointed out, our impact is the reason we are both an asset and a threat.

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Oh, the things you’ve done….

Deacon Raphael has tagged me… Here is my list (I think I am about as exciting as a stone).

Things I’ve done (for good or bad) are shown in bold and italics:

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said —I love you’ and meant it!
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped

11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars

20. Changed a baby’s diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Drunk champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger

30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Scored a winning goal
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Visited all 5 continents

40. Taken care of someone who was drunk
41. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
42. Watched wild whales
43. Stolen a sign
44. Backpacked
45. Taken a road-trip
46. Gone rock climbing (Krosno, Poland)
47. Tried to lose weight seriously.
48. Midnight walk on the beach
49. Gone sky diving

50. Taken a train through Europe
51. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
52. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table, and had a meal with them
53. Milked a cow
54. Alphabetized your CDs
55. Sung karaoke
56. Lounged around in bed all day
57. Gone scuba diving
58. Kissed in the rain
59. Gone to a drive-in theater

60. Started a business
61. Taken a martial arts class
62. Been in a movie
63. Crashed a party
64. Gone without food for 5 days
65. Gotten a tattoo
66. Got flowers for no reason
67. Performed on stage
68. Been to Las Vegas
69. Recorded music

70. Eaten shark
71. Buried one/both of your parents
72. Been on a cruise ship
73. Spoken more than one language fluently
74. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
75. Walked a famous bridge
76. Had plastic surgery
77. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
78. Wrote articles for a large publication
79. Piloted an airplane

80. Petted a stingray
81. Broken someone’s heart
82. Broken a bone
83. Eaten sushi
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Parasailed
86. Skipped all your school reunions
87. Shaved your head
88. Caused a car accident
89. Pretended to be —sick—

90. Swam in the Pacific Ocean
91. Saved someone’s life
92. Fainted
93. Been in the room while someone is giving birth
94. Hitchhiked
95. Adopted a child
96. Been caught daydreaming
97. Been to the Painted Desert
98. Called off a wedding engagement
99. Donated your blood

100. Become a follower of Jesus Christ

Anyone who would like to participate (Adam?) is hereby tagged.

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Negative people

I received this from my daughter.

This is something to think about when negative people are doing their best to rain on your parade. So remember this story the next time someone who knows nothing and cares less tries to make your life miserable:

A woman was at her hairdresser’s getting her hair styled for a trip to Rome with her husband.

She mentioned the trip to the hairdresser, who responded, “Rome?

Why would anyone want to go there? It’s crowded and dirty.

You’re crazy to go to Rome. So, how are you getting there?”

We’re taking Continental,” was the reply. “We got a great rate!”

“Continental?” exclaimed the hairdresser. “That’s a terrible airline. Their planes are old, their flight attendants are ugly and they’re always late. So, where are you staying in Rome?”

“We’ll be at this exclusive little place over on Rome’s Tiber River called Teste.”

“Don’t go any further. I know that place. Everybody thinks it’s going be something special and exclusive, but it’s really a dump, the worst hotel in the city! The rooms are small, the service is surly and they’re overpriced.

So, whatcha’ doing when you get there?”

“We’re going to go to see the Vatican and we hope to see the Pope.”

“That’s rich,” laughed the hairdresser, “You and a million other people trying to see him. He’ll look the size of an ant. Boy, good luck on this lousy trip of yours. You’re going to need it.”

A month later, the woman again came in for a hairdo.

The hairdresser asked her about her trip to Rome.

“It was wonderful!” exclaimed the woman, “Not only were we on time in one of Continental’s brand new planes, but it was overbooked and they bumped us up to first class.

The food and wine were wonderful, and I had a handsome 28-year-old steward who waited on me hand and foot.

The hotel was great! They’d just finished a $5 million remodeling job and now it’s a jewel, the finest hotel in the city. They, too, were overbooked, so they apologized and gave us their owner’s suite at no extra charge!”

“Well,” muttered the hairdresser, “that’s all well and good, but I know you didn’t get to see the Pope.”

“Actually, we were quite lucky, because as we toured the Vatican a Swiss Guard tapped me on the shoulder and explained that the Pope likes to meet some of the visitors, and if I’d be as kind as to step into his private room and wait the Pope would personally greet me.

Sure enough, five minutes later, the Pope walked through the door and shook my hand! I knelt down and he spoke a few words to me.”

“Oh, really! What’d he say?”

He said, “Where’d you get the lousy haircut?”

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This weekend’s iPod Shuffle

  1. The Envoy – Warren Zevon, The Best of Warren Zevon
  2. Boom Boom Mancini —“ Warren Zevon, Genius
  3. Lazy —“ Deep Purple, Machine Head
  4. Desbocado —“ Bruno Battisti D´Amario, Samba para Ti & More
  5. Moja ty Marysiu —“ Promni, A witajcie przyjaciele
  6. Trampled Under Foot —“ Led Zepplin, Physical Graffiti
  7. Ur w ziemi chaldejskiej —“ Stanisław Soyka, Tryptyk Rzymski
  8. Dancing Dreams —“ Michael Urbaniak, Michael Urbaniak
  9. Mr. Bad Example —“ Warren Zevon, Genius
  10. Nobody In His Right Mind Would Have Left Her —“ George Strait, Greatest Hits Volume II
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8th Annual Truman-Reagan Freedom Awards Reception

Presented by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

When: Nov 14, 2006 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Where:

Embassy of the Czech Republic
3900 Spring of Freedom St., NW
Washington, DC 20008

Honoring Czech hero and martyr Milada Horakova and Edwin J. Feulner, President, The Heritage Foundation and featuring Czech food, drink, and music and a Silent Auction

Contact: Anne Meesman or call at 703-525-4445. You may also Register Online.

Tickets:

$100 individual
$175 couple
$5,000 Sponsor
$10,000 Patron
$15,000 Benefactor

Please make checks payable to:The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and mail to:

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
1521 Sixteenth Street NW,
Washington DC 20036

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation was established and authorized by Congressional Resolution H.R. 3000 and Presidential Approval, Public Law 103-199.

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

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Gmail Mobile

Gmail is offering a new java based application for mobile telephones. See: What is up with this new Gmail mobile application? by ZDNet‘s Matthew Miller:

Google released a new Gmail mobile application yesterday that has led to a bit of confusion since they already have a mobile formatted Gmail site you can access from a mobile browser. This new method is a downloadable Java application so you must have a Java-enabled device and it appears that the T-Mobile USA limit they state may not be accurate. Find out all the details on using this application with T-Mobile on a Nokia N73 in the full blog entry.

It took me all of a minute to download and set it up on my Audiovox 5600. It is very cool —“ and works great.

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Of holy memory

Please remember during the month of November:

Andrzej and Emilia, Józef and Rozalia, Louis A. and Bernice, Walenty and Maria, Jan and Marianna, Marcin and Marianna, Louis T. and Rita, Sister Mary Agnese, Agnes and Joseph, Angeline, John, Walenty, Walerka, Francis and Mary, Ludwis, Anthony and Laura, Mary Grace, Joseph, and Chester

Wieczny odpoczynek racz im dać Panie, a światłość wiekuista niechaj im świeci. Amen.

Niech odpoczywają w pokoju. Amen.

Witaj, Królowo Nieba (Hail, Thou Queen of the Heavens)

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This week’s iPod shuffle (a little late)

Fr. Jim Tucker is still away and it looks like he has no Internet access so he can do his weekly call out for an iPod shuffle. I wanted to get at this before the weekend, but time got away from me. So here’s my shuffle for the week ahead:

  1. Mississippi Queen —“ Bachman-Turner Overdrive, The All Time Greatest Hits
  2. Biegnij razem ze mną —“ Kora and Maanam, The Best Of Kora & Maanam
  3. Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again) – Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash Artist’s Choice
  4. Barka —“ ks. Bogdan Skowroński, Witaj Panie
  5. Tenerife – Urszula, Udar
  6. Sorry —“ Iryna Bilyk (Ірина Білик), Kraina (Країна)
  7. Already Gone —“ Eagles, The Eagles – Their Greatest Hits
  8. Ten Years Gone —“ Led Zepplin, Physical Graffiti
  9. Nobody Does Me —“ Diane Schuur, Pure Schuur
  10. Highway Patrolman —“ Bruce Spingsteen, Johnny Cash Artist’s Choice

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