February 19, 2008

A Blossom in Winter

Filed under Mike's photos, South Dakota, Travel Photos, Wisconsin, photography, places, plants, spam, stupid computers!

winter-blossom

This flower was in the the Adolph C. and Eugenie Mayer Bolz Conservatory, in the Orbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, Wisconsin. We visited on December 22, 2007, the first day of winter.

Camera: Pentax K10D
Exposure: 0.05 sec (1/20)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 90 mm
ISO Speed: 400

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February 12, 2008

Over a quarter million spam comments

Filed under blogging, comment spam, give me a break!, spam

Yukon Pete and a can of spam (click on link to go to original image and creative commons license at flickr

On my Askimet spam page for Daily Chronicles of the American Civil War blog, the message today reads, “Akismet has caught 258,378 spam for you since you first installed it.”

That’s a lot of comment spam.

I really, really hate spam of any kind.

I really, really like Askimet. I just moderated 10 spam comment that got past it — out of 4000 since the last time I checked the comment moderation page. If I had to go through each and every one, I’d have comments turned off to that blog. There is just too many.

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