Freelancer's Office: Blog

I got the calendar working again.  I had lost my log-in information for it, but it has been found once again so I can now update calendar events and approve user submitted calendar stuff.

Feel free to submit things of interest to writers, such as conference dates, writing competition deadlines, and anything else that might be of important to be on a calendar for freelance writers.  No SPAM please, I do reserve the right to edit, modify and remove any calendar entries that I chose without explanation.

Thank you

It usually helps to reduce the SPAM if the blogger remembers to enable Akismet.  ::pounds head on desk::  Just realized that I had not enabled Akismet on this blog, so that explains the deluge of junk comments I was getting.  Why had I thought that Akismet was automatically enabled when WordPress was installed?  I need to double check the other blogs I was having trouble with comment SPAM on, see if I got Akismet enabled on them or not - I’m betting it’s ‘not’.

I just got a new kind of comment SPAM, well, actually, I got it a while back, but I just checked it out to see what it really was.  The  thing was a trackback to one of my posts here, but the URL for where the trackback went to was no more than a rerouter that immediately took me to another site that was nothing but a blank page.

It’s getting really annoying when SPAMMERS are targeting everything you make posts about and just generally playing hell with your ability to have a site where people can leave comments, but now it’s getting to where even letting someone leave a trackback to your articles is opening the flood gates for the SPAMMERS.

I get most of this stuff from one country in particular, so I don’t suppose that there is a WordPress Plugin out there anywhere that lets you refuse comments and trackbacks from entire countries, is there?  I really hate to just say”No” to everyone in the country because of one jerk, but that one jerk sends 300+ commens about sex at some of my blogs in a single day and the things change just enough that the SPAM filter on WP does not seem to catch them as being SPAM.

A word filter would work… I don’t suppose there is a WordPress SPAM filter Plugin that filters out all comments that have set words in them is there? :::goes off to hunt for one:::

I am having trouble logging into the calendar to update it, it’s still there and visible and everything, but I need to sort out why I can’t log in and then I will be able to start updating it again.  Really annoying way to start off the day, and does not bode well for how my day is going to go after this.

I was enjoying watching CSI: Miami, which in the past few weeks I have developed an addiction for, and was caught off guard by a 60 second recap by Airwick… nice idea, however, they totally messed it up.  30 minutes into the one hour show they give a recap of the entire main plot line of the episode.  Really really annoyed me.  I’m now only watching for the subplot they have going, which thankfully was the one I was more interested in anyway, so the episode was not entirely ruined for me.

It just makes no sense that their recap thing would tell not just what happened in the first half of the episode, but also what happened in the part that has not yet been watched.