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Ian Davis: British; married with kids; technical architect; CTO of Talis; co-author of RSS 1.0; creator of FOAF icons; Semantic Web hacker.
My URI:
http://iandavis.com/id/me
Email Me:
nospam@iandavis.com
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/iand
Monthly Archives: September 2004
Zero Comment Spam
Yes it’s true, I’ve had zero comment spam since implementing the keyword scheme. I’ve had quite a few comments, even one from my Dad, which demonstrates that entering the keyword isn’t too onerous. As promised, here’s what I did. First … Continue reading
Dad on the Great Wall of China
That’s my Dad on the Great Wall of China. He’s just completed a 5 day charity walk of the wall, sleeping in tiny tents in local school playgrounds and climbing gradients of up to 70%. My Dad, in his sixties … Continue reading
WordPress Hack for Slim Pages
Here’s the PHP file I use to generate my slim page. It’s called wp-slim.php and lives in the same directory as index.php. <?php if (!isset($feed)) { $blog = 1; $doing_rss = 1; require(‘wp-blog-header.php’); } $more = 1; $charset = get_settings(‘blog_charset’); … Continue reading
Slim Pages
I’m experimenting with a slim page version of this site. Slim Pages are slimmed down versions of standard web pages. The basic rules are: Slim Pages are a subset of XHTML strict. They cannot contain script/noscript elements, style attributes nor … Continue reading
More Comment Spam
I’m still getting comment spam, despite the posting timeslot idea. Obviously the assumptions I made there were unsound. So, here’s the supplement that might raise the bar a little. If you want to comment on an entry here, you now … Continue reading
BCG
I went to Weybridge today for a friend’s leaving lunch. He was the first person we hired into the newly created BCG team at Sony way back in 1997. This was back when the people at Sony UK had barely … Continue reading
Comment Posting Timeslots
Ok, I have comment moderation but I don’t want to waste time deleting crap comments. So I need to do something different to combat it. My assumptions are: most comment spam is automated; the spammers have specific applications that understand … Continue reading
Comment Spam
One day after enabling comments and I’ve had two genuine comments and 5 spam. Think nice thoughts… think nice thoughts…
WordPress Hacks
I forgot to mention a couple of hacks I used to build this WordPress installation. Both are by Morten Frederiksen who was generous enough to document exactly what he did with each one:
