Nice use of technology to assist the accessibility of WordPress:
Grant Laird Jr., a popular “deaf guy” who produced two ALS (American Sign Language) videos explaining his favorite Wordpress Plugins and 10 More Wordpress Plugins in sign language.
via: Lorelle on WordPress
One guy (or his bot, really) is apparently soooo interested in shoes that he’s spamming a single domain URL (pointing to various pages about shoes) over and over again… but that domain doesn’t actually exist, according to Google. So I have no idea what the point really is. Trying to take down my server? Not likely the way he’s going about it. BTW, most gay people I know wouldn’t be caught dead in Gay Rainbow Shoes, they have better fashion sense than that! *shudder* Nice try, dipshits, but no cigar.
I also noticed the apparent cluelessness about these bots and the spammers using them. For one thing, most of the spam URLs are in BBcode, and since I don’t have a plugin to allow BBcode on any of my blogs, it makes for a nice way to block their spam attempts without even having to fill my Blacklist with any of their fake URLs. In Wordpress, you just add the BBcode tag(s) into Options/Discussion (in the bottom list). Wham! That crap is not hitting my blog.
Meanwhile, all the open proxy IPs being used (Hello RIPE.net!) are getting blacklisted, preventing his spammy friends, who are also using those IPs, from posting their crap as well.
Also, I really think the FBI should go after the pharmaceutical giants, because you know darn well, they’re the ones behind all the pill-pushing spam. Somebody really needs to figure out a way to make this spam catching profitable for the bloggers… maybe we need to hook paypal into our spam filters and charge the makers of all these drugs a dollar a shot for every attempt to post their unpaid ads on our blogs, whether they’re successful or not? By the looks of my stats, this year’s income from spam would already be quite a boon.
Still several minor issues to work out on this theme (I know!), but I’ve been hacking away on it for hours now and it’s time to rest my eyes. I’ll fix the glitches over the next week or so.
I hope you like the new theme. 
Later : I’ve noted the search results page output really sucks — I’m going to fix that, don’t worry, it’s missing things in the templates. I’m also thinking of ways to enhance the search results, though implementation could get a little bit tricky.
I got the Archives and Archives Index pages fixed up. Comment Form should be relatively glitch-free, unless I missed something there. Probably missing all kinds of functionality from WP2.0.2, but once I figure out what’s missing adding the appropriate code shouldn’t be too much of a problem. Believe it or not, the hardest part (for me) is figuring out the right wordpress tags and values to use to get the output I’m looking for.
I started reading about AJAX and it sure seems like a lot of programming gobbledegook to me. Think I need to start with a tutorial for newbies first. hehe
