…grayblog…

Category: grayblog.co.uk

  • Ja!

    In Germany. Too busy to write here, but having a good trip. Would recommend Münster to anyone for a holiday visit. Incredibly tired. Trying to sort out stuff at home too. Finding it all a bit hard, but coping, and enjoying the positives. More next week.

  • Comment spam

    I’ve been having problems with comment spam (you won’t have noticed, as they are all deleted upon arrival). From now on, you will be required to enter a name and email address when submitting a comment. Additionally, any comment containing more than three links will not appear until it has been manually approved by me. Hopefully that will solve the problem.

  • Too busy

    Worked until 10 tonight. Off to Germany Sunday. Expect continued content drought.

  • Rant

    See this? €
    It’s a euro symbol.
    If you’re reading this on Mozilla/FireFox, you’ll know that.
    If you’re using Explorer, it may well look like a box.
    Poxy Microsoft.

  • Spam Guardian

    Now that I’ve nearly got the settings right for Spam Guardian, I’m really pleased with it. I’ve had the filter sensitivity set to "5", which has screened out around 80% of the spam mails. Some are still getting through, though, so I’ve increased the sensitivity to "strict", which has a scalar equivalence of "4". If this correctly tags all the unwanted mail, then I’ll get it to delete the mails at the server before they get sent to my inbox – but only after a trial period (perhaps a week) of simply tagging the offending mails, just to be sure that I’m not going to screen out anything that I actually want to receive.
    Exciting, isn’t it?

  • Phorm and Spam Guardian

    For those sitting on the edge of their seats, waiting for exciting news about my software tribulations, I can now report that I have successfully solved all the problems with my form using Phorm, which I rate as excellent. I have also tweaked the settings on Spam Guardian so that it is now tagging about 80% of incoming spam with the filter set to "10". I’m going to alter it to "9" to see if we can increase its sensitivity.
    More exciting news as reports come in!

  • Tinned processed meat

    I’ve signed up for the new spam and virus filtering service at 34sp, which has already nipped one virus in the bud. However, I’m having problems finding a suitable level of sensitivity for the Spam Guardian filtering engine. I tried 75 and that filtered nothing. I’ve now set it to 50 and will await results. Anyone else got experience with this? If so, what level have you set? I know that it will take a while to tweak, and I’ll need to set up a lengthy "white list" of safe addresses, but all advice is welcome.
    If I get it working well on grayblog.co.uk, I’ll deploy it on plantsforeurope.com too.

  • Content

    Too busy still. Spent most of today driving. Now have long forms related to flat sale to complete. Most likely will go for beer shortly.
    No drama to report, so move along.

  • Boob

    I’ve just been looking at Eva Herzigova’s breasts in the "Bra Loggy" header of this site (click refresh until you see it if you are not familiar with it), and wondered if I should replace them with a photo of Hels’s cleavage.
    If I did so, what would be my likely life expectancy?
    (We do, of course, already have Hels’s eyes. But you knew that, didn’t you?)

  • Once upon a time…

    Once upon a time, there lived a man who maintained a website known as grayblog. This site contained his ramblings and musings, a few links and (very infrequently) the odd item of interest to certain other sections of mankind.
    I just wonder when I’m ever going to find time to get this site truly up-to-date. There seems to be a shedload of things to write about, but no time to do so. So apologies all round.