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Shakespears Sister

Yes, it is spelled correctly! Remember them? Ex Bananarama Member Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit were the lead and backing vocalist respectively. Their first single to chart in the UK was called You’re History. And that’s exactly what I say … Continue reading

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Defensio – The Verdict

January 10th I posted Defensio – Early Signs aren’t great. At the time the spam killer Akismet replacement had been running less than 24 hours. In one of the comments Mat, one of the Defensio developers confirmed my theory that … Continue reading

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Defensio – Early Signs Aren’t Great

Twenty four hours after installing Defensio as a replacement to Akismet I went and looked at the spam counts for the plugin this afternoon.That’s not exactly a good start for the plugin now is it. Seven “innocents” and five false … Continue reading

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Bye Bye Akismet – Bye Bye WordPress.com

Following lots of upset, all centred around wordpress.com I moved the blogs that I want to keep away from wordpress.com. The only thing that’s kept my account over there active is the Akismet anti-spam plugin that requires the wordpress.com API … Continue reading

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Downtime – Big Whoopsy by me!

So, if either of my readers noticed, last night I killed the webserver. Yes, the server – not just my blog/site. Having upgraded to WordPress 2.3 a few days ago I was mucking about with a couple of my plugins, … Continue reading

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