Having recently fought of a rather nasty spam bot attack on a forum i run i must say i’ve had little tolerance for spam of any kind as of late but i have to say the most recent comment caught by Akismet has me amused. It was in Chinese with no links what so ever (so i’m not sure how Akismet did in fact catch it unless it just hates Chinese). The comment in its native tongue is as follows:
男人网从多个角度诠释男人时尚生活方式,从男士的健康到着装,到男士忠爱的奢侈品;从男士的烧钱的玩物到男士的性健康,做个有魅力的成功男士.
And being the curious person i am i had to send it through babel fish to see what i got and it was indeed worth the effort:
The man net annotates the man fashion life style from many angles, from gentleman’s health to clothing, to gentleman loyal love luxury goods; From gentleman’s fever money’s toys to gentleman’s natural health, make to have the charm successful gentleman.
My best guess is that they’re trying to sell clothing, maybe, or gentleman fevers? Oh i give up. Maybe a more apt title for this post would’ve been The Confusing Side of Spam. I’m still wondering what exactly a “man net” is…
Found this over on hack-a-day and it worked like a champ:
$ curl http://wordpress.org/latest.zip -o "wp.zip" && unzip wp.zip && rm -rf ./wordpress/wp-content/ && cp -r ./wordpress/* ~/www/
Wordpress just released an iPhone application allowing users to post from their mobiles. While it was technically possible to do so prrviously via the web interface it was a bit nasty.
Just trying it out now. I’ll have to come back and add links later I suppose (insert copy and past complaints here).
Finally sat down and finished the last few tweaks for the theme i’d been working on – namely the sidebar and archive/search pages. There are surely some bugs that need to be worked such as why the WP-Codebox plugin doesn’t want to show hide overflow. As usual if you see anything weird on the site please let me know so i can fix it.
Also, everyone should go out and setup a Gravatar as that is the primary means of recognizing comments (other than alt/title tags) at the moment. I may eventually add a byline but we’ll see.
It’s still a work-in-progress but being as i’m of the release early and often mindset i figured i’d start working with it as i finish it off. The goal isn’t to make a full-featured theme so it may be missing some of the features you’re expecting of a wordpress blog; if i find i want a feature i’ll probably add it, but who knows.
If anything appears to be busted please let me know in the comments or via email. Please ignore the mess.
Update: Switching back to the default while i work out some kinks and make a few style changes. Thanks to Matt for pointing out some issues with the feeds.
