Monthly Archive for December, 2007

Snow-rape 2007 redux

Yeah, it’s really cold outside right now. We got an insane amount of snow last Saturday and it looks as though we’re going to be getting more this weekend. I drove to work in an icy tomb this morning; this could have been prevented if I woke up in enough time to let my car idle for a few minutes, but I’m lazy and tired upon awakening. I’m also too lazy to get all bundled up to simply start a car, which means that my desire and motivation to exit the house at 7:50 AM when it’s 15 degrees Fahrenheit outside is next to nill.

In other news, Zelda - Phantom Hourglass is easily one of the best games for the DS. In fact, I would go so far as to say that it is a reason to own a DS in the first place. I picked it up last weekend (along with a crimson and black DS Lite) and have been playing it whenever possible. Now if I could only find a Wii…

Also I ‘finished’ my first plugin for WordPress. I call it ‘Recapture’ for it shall save the bloggers from user registration spam, or something like that. That last sentence was not intended to make sense. I’ve had it running on this site for about a week now, and it has blocked six bad registration attempts. Some experts might tell you that the code is not that pretty (that’s why it’s beta!), but at least until WordPress comes with its own integrated solution (or bundled plugin) this will have to do. If anyone should stumble upon this and has any commentary on the plugin itself, please contact me. For my next feat, I may have to see about getting this to work on WordPress MU (which I have never used).

WordPress registration spam is the devil

I’ve been getting quite a bit of registration spam recently, and it’s really ticking me off. So, tonight instead of doing my homework, I decided to write a plugin that will ‘hopefully’ take care of the problem. At this point, it is hacked together quite badly, and is not user friendly at all, but I plan on changing that this weekend (after my homework). Would anyone like to test it out before I release it to the world? It uses reCAPTCHA so you’ll have to sign up for a free public and private key at their site. I’m not sure that it works one-hundred-percent of the time yet, but I’m logging failed attempts to the database, so we should know within a few days.