Passpack Disses Internet Explorer
I just saw this awesome form step on Passpack:
Passpack cold dissed IE, ya’ll.
Update: Tara Kelly, President of Passpack, commented with an interesting article on their blog on why they created the two validation methods. In a nutshell? IE is slow as hell when it comes to decryption. Not a big surprise.
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As previously noted, I spent a good deal of time on Friday and Saturday, updating the blog to MT4. I’m a fan of the interface updates, and it’s nice that comment spam is actually getting rated down again, but I’m still amazed at the number of spam messages that funnel through my site.
Between when I emptied it last night at around 9pm and when I checked this morning at 9am, I got over one thousand spam comments. This is after I added the CAPTCHA, mind you.
Which means that the built-in MT4 reverse Turing test has:
- A. Been cracked by recognition software
- B. Or my own site’s CAPTCHA is being solved by horny Internet denizens eager to see more skin.
I’ll probably just remove it because it didn’t have any effect whatsoever on stemming the tide. I think my site was open to spammers’ shitty links for a few months, and now they’ve labeled it as a go-to blog for Google juice. Which is retarded, because I’m using nofollows. But far be it from me to know the mind of a comment spammer.
More as the saga continues.
Upgrade and Comment Spam
I’ve upgraded to Movable Type 4.1. I contemplated migrating to WordPress, but decided that the transition was a little too much for a Friday night.
The upgrade wasn’t too tough, but I had some issues with 4.1′s Registration feature. The UI is a little confusing and I kept getting this error whenever I published:
Publish error in template ‘Site JavaScript’: Error in
TypeKey authentication was set up, so I’m not sure what the hell MT was talkin’ ’bout. I just disabled the whole Registration authentication dealie and it looks good.
Still having comment spam issues, though, so I’m disabling comments for a few days.
Now I’m going to go watch Battlestar Galactica.
Google Analytics Seminar
Despite the fact that my photograph leaves much to be desired, it looks like Google has posted news of our Google Analytics training seminar, which will be held on March 25th and 26th in Raleigh.
I must admit, it’s a little crazy seeing my mug anywhere on the Google.com domain.
Funny AdWords Contest
My co-worker, Mark Curtis, has posted a pretty hilarious article over at the ROI Revolution blog, uncovering some of the world’s most badly-targeted AdWords ads. Take a look and vote on which ones you think are… best? Worst? I dunno.
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