Simon Rycroft's musings » Personal http://blog.simon.rycroft.name Too lazy to be a blog, but a little more than the average web page. Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:43:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Zero Spam http://blog.simon.rycroft.name/2008/04/30/zero-spam/ http://blog.simon.rycroft.name/2008/04/30/zero-spam/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:17:45 +0000 Simon Rycroft http://blog.simon.rycroft.name/?p=24 I’m now close to 100% confident that we’ve managed to cut out spam completely on the Scratchpads. We’re doing this using two modules, Hashcash (as mentioned previously on this blog), and Mollom.

What’s Mollom? Well, it’s a spam detection service which implements its own Captcha on a site if it thinks some content posted is spam. It’s the one module I’d now recommend all Drupal installations shouldn’t be without.

]]> http://blog.simon.rycroft.name/2008/04/30/zero-spam/feed/ 0 BT incompetence http://blog.simon.rycroft.name/2007/11/28/bt-incompetence/ http://blog.simon.rycroft.name/2007/11/28/bt-incompetence/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:47:27 +0000 Simon Rycroft http://blog.simon.rycroft.name/2007/11/28/bt-incompetence/ I received the following in my mail this morning:

Thank you for your email regarding online billing.

In response to you email, I have checked your account and it shows your telephone number is alloted this BT Account number. Furthermore, I would like to inform you that account may not be registered online due to technical error.

I hope this information satisfies your query.

I hope this information satisfies your query… what do you bloody think?

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]]> http://blog.simon.rycroft.name/2007/11/21/england/feed/ -113 Happy New Year http://blog.simon.rycroft.name/2007/01/09/happy-new-year/ http://blog.simon.rycroft.name/2007/01/09/happy-new-year/#comments Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:08:15 +0000 Simon Rycroft http://blog.simon.rycroft.name/2007/01/09/happy-new-year/ Well, here comes 2007. I can’t really be sure yet, but it looks like this year is set to bring some big changes in the Rycroft Duff house. I guess we’ll only really know what they are, when they happen.

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