TechMount

This is how a blogging backlog looks like in WordPress… Too many idea, too little time…. A 36 hours day would so much help my productivity.

It’s pretty easy to notice the lack of attention this blog has been getting the last few months. Only a few posts every month, and not very thoughtful ones at that. Simply put, the place has been neglected.
There may be various reasons for that, not enough time, fatigue, lack of ideas, and yes, a
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Congratulations to Akismet!!! It passed the one millionth spam comment stopped on my blog. I can’t even imagine going through all these comment manually.

I still skim through the suspected comments before deleting them, and I did manage to catch a few false positives way back, but nothing during the last few months, and I’m considering
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In reality it all started when I wanted to rename my old “blogtech” category and make sure it included new technologies (ok, they are not really new anymore, but still), mainly podcasts and videocasts. Getting my mind around the matter, it was pretty clear it’s all about personal publishing, at least in it’s essence or
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The comments problem is now fixed with the latest Wordpress upgrade.

A few days ago (actually more than a few days, but well…) I’ve noticed I’m not getting any spam comments. Evidently I was not getting ANY comments at all. While trying to post a comment myself I’ve found out that something is broke in my comment mechanism. I don’t know exactly why, since I didn’t
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“This old and primitive scripting language is still strong today, but for hells sake, there must be a way to check if a single freaking variable is a gawd damn integer” Just something I thought worth saving…

This server was just upgraded to PHP 4.4.2. After several scary moments (very long moments I have to say) things seem to be working properly again. If you couldn’t reach Techmount in the last couple of hours, this was it. We are back and ready to rumble.

It’s been two weeks since I left but feels more like forever. Anyway, I’m back and ready to kick.

Congratulations to Alex and Liora on the birth of their new baby boy!!! He came a few weeks early, couldn’t wait to meet his wonderful parents

I just spent the last hour or so manually deleting hundreds of spam comments that managed to go through the spam filters.
Seems like there’s a new drug being advertised on spam networks, one that is not blocked yet on my blocking mechanism.
I did learn two new things while dealing with this new plague:

A
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This is the two year anniversary since the founding of TechMount. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Why February 21st? This is the date of the first post I ever published on TechMount after tragically losing my previous blog. The two year old blog I had before TechMount got deleted from the server not long after I lost the backup in
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