Akismet has caught 2,000,190 spam for you since you first installed it.
Two million is a ridiculous number of spam comments on my little ol’ blog.
I can’t imagine it will get any better, either.
I have to be thankful for Akismet. If you get a lot of spam comments, that you no longer have to deal with because Akismet protects you from them , please consider paying for at least a pro-blogger subscription. It’s well worth the money.
The new web site for my daughter’s school, St Bede’s College has finally gone live today. This is great news! It is a much better looking replacement for their old site and will give a much needed boost to their on-line presence.
Of course, it is built completely on WordPress, with a ton of plugins, a couple of custom widgets, an original design by an ex pupil, and a fairly sophisticated theme by me. I’ll give more details shortly. It should look OK in most browsers. I’d appreciate a comment if anyone spots any major breakage.
The hardest part (or at least the part that took me the most time) was converting their old pages which were written as old-school 90’s stylee static pages — chock full of presentational HTML — into Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH) ones. As far as I can tell every page nowvalidates as XHTML 1.0 strict.
The small team of staff members who have helped me design the architecture of the site, up date the content, and add new stuff, have done a marvellous job. Especially whilst coping with all that goes on at the beginning of a new school year.
Go check it out.
I’m going!
Looking forward to both days events
After some last minute changes (and upsetting a few people) there is now a new venue for the WordCamp UK 2008 event.
The new venue is The Studio, it is still in Birmingham, and in fact quite close to the previously planned venue. The Studio has a directions map and their main web site lists all the features. The event will be hosted in ‘Atrium Bar’ and the adjoining ‘Open’ room.
Someone kindly set up a Google Maps directions page.
For full details go to the WordCamp UK wiki.
WordCamp UK is an informal gathering of WordPress bloggers, podcasters, designers and developers based in the United Kingdom.
When? - Saturday and Sunday 19-20 July 2008
Where? - Aston University Lakeside Centre, Birmingham
I’ll be there, will you?
I noticed a few days ago that Akismet had caught more than 1 million spam comments on this blog. That’s an incredible amount. I didn’t think more about it until I spotted that Darren Rowse blogged about “The Blog Tool that Has Saved Me Months of Work” referring to Akismet having caught 2 million spam comments for him. He calculates that it has saved him over 46 days of moderation time.
Wow! That means it must have saved me 23 days effort, using his calculations. If I include the 200,000 or so it has caught on the other blogs I manage, it’s an awesome amount of time saved.
I have to agree that Akismet is a fantastic tool, and second his comment to encourage you to pay for Akismet if you are getting a great service out of it.
Wow, I pay so little attention to this blog at the moment, that I didn’t notice my visitor count rolling over 1 million. It must have done so at least a couple of weeks ago. Update I checked and it was May 30th at approximately 15:47 GMT and it looks like it was a visitor from the Netherlands.
My page view counter is nearly at 10 million too.
