Sometimes…

…you get to work on a well designed, well written, well tested, well documented piece of software. No, really, you do, sometimes. I’m doing just that today. I was given the task of system testing something a colleague wrote prior to leaving the company. Not only is it a pleasure to work with, I’m picking up some very useful tips about how to do things more thoroughly as well.

Today I are mostly being

Cynical.

Comment spam

I’m getting quite a lot of comment spam at the moment. Mainly for diet pills, male pattern baldness cures and online casinos, none of which I really need. OK so my hairline is receding but I own a fine selection of hats. I’m using enetation comments at the moment which allows me to delete comments and block by IP address. The problem is that deleting a large amount of spam is very labour intensive and they shift IP addresses so I can’t block them for long. So, what are you doing about comment spam? A move to Typepad has been suggested, I’m told that you can block comments by URL, but I quite like Blogger. An easy answer for me would be to switch to Blogger comments. Does anyone use it? If so, can you filter/block/bulk delete spam comments?

More representation and reality

Cathy and I went to the Lake District this weekend, Sam stayed with his Grandparents. We bought him some chocolate sheep droppings and chocolate cow pats as a present. He tried one, pulled a yeuch kind of a face and spat it straight out. I tried one pulled a yeuch kind of a face and spat it out: they taste like shit.