Devscripts.net – Decode HTML Special Entities: Useful script to decode spammers’ encoded links.

Free Programming and Computer Science Books: What a great resource! I already have a bunch of books on PDF and this collection will just add to my list. Although, I have to say, I like reading a book in real life much more than a PDF. But still a great resource! Via: Forever Geek

I would like to share my list of spamwords and IPs (which can be dynamically generated by a user) but rather than giving it out in public, I would like to entrust a few people I know well to share it with a few people that they know well and pass it on in that manner. If you would like to know the dynamic link that generates the list (and be entrusted with the link for distribution), please leave a comment or email me. The list, at this time, contains the 1000 most prolific IPs and 1000 most prolific phrases in spam comments. The actual list is MUCH larger. In other news, the CSPAM service should be much more robust now, with the ability to handle a higher load of spam. Various analytical features have been added and it is ready for some more blogs. If you would like to […]

Please post comments here for testing. Do you like this site? Does it offer you with a good and daily does of blogging? Do you find yourself coming here often to search for stuff? Do you like the search feature? Please refrain from using common spam words since you WILL be automatically blacklisted and will not be allowed to comment again unless you contact me directly and ask me to remove you manually. This post will be used for comment testing all weekend. Thanks for your help!

nicholasjon.com : WordPress Cookie Spambot stopper or forcing clients to do some sort of javascript calculation. Interesting comment on that page. I have been thinking about a javascript authenticator for some time.

What Do I Know – DreamHost Adds One-Click WordPress Install: Thanks to Michael for bringing this to my attention as well.

I have been trying to read through some of the things people are saying about WordPress and Spam in the blogosphere and it seems that spambots are picking up posts RIGHT after they get posted even if the blog is very very new. The simple conclusion that I have drawn from this is that the spammers are picking up the links to new posts from….wait for it….the sites that your blog pings (among other things I’m sure). If you have a brand spanking new blog, have already gotten your first spam attack, turn off your pinger and see if the spam attacks reduce in propensity. If they do, I sure would like to know, though I am not sure how to stop this from happening and continue to ping. Any thoughts?

Register Your dotMP: It feels like I am advertising for this TLD but since it is about blogging (mp == mobile phone) and pictures, and moblogging and such, I figure it is pretty cool. Via: Russell