Category: General

Comments on comments

Camera: Paula asked me about my camera: I took the photo Small Rapids with my Kodak EasyShare DX7590. It has an optical 10x lens, and I am very fond of it. It works quite well with my operating system of choice: Ubuntu Linux.
Crazy Glue: I still get the occasional comment on I Hate Crazy Glue. Other people seem to hate it too, probably because they find my post while desperately searching for a way to get the stuff off their fingers.
Comment Spam: I noticed, in the ten minutes that it took to upgrade my weblog to WordPress 2.0.1, one spam comment was attached while I was upgrading. (When upgrading WordPress, it is advised that you turn off all your plugins, and I use the plugin Spam Karma to prevent spam comments.) Fortunately Spam Karma worked after the upgrade, but I thought it was a sad commentary that I received spam comment in a ten minute window.

Small Rapids

Image

Yesterday, I took Jack’s monopod with me on my walk along Cottonwood Creek, in hopes that I would get some good shots with the zoom. This was the first time I had walked with the monopod, and I found it less cumbersome than I feared. I was impressed by how well the above shot turned out, considering my distance from the falls when I took it. Click on the photo for a higher resolution version suitable for a desktop background.

Disabled Trackbacks and Pingbacks

I’ve disabled trackbacks and pingbacks due to receiving truly vile spam. I learned about it via PhotoMatt and immediately checked comments and trackbacks, finding some stomach turning entries which I immediately deleted. Evidently, Spam Karma has been updated to deal with trackback spam, so I installed it on both my weblog and Jack’s weblog. The trackback spam was sufficiently upsetting that I will just leave it turned off for a while, until I see if the Spam Karma fix works for other people.