Misc. Ramblings

There a buzz going on about the 16-year old teenager from England that sings soul music like it hasn't been sung since the 1970's. Her name is Joss Stone (see her site here). If you are into the likes of Aretha Franklin, then you owe it to yourself to listen to this young woman. Then watch the video on her site and be prepared to be blown away by how such a soulful sound could come out of someone so young.

Be aware this is straight from the heart soul music. It is not over produced and is definitely not for everyone. But as I said, if you are into soul, check out Joss Stone.

Cracking Up. I was sealing the grout of our new bathroom tile when I noticed several small cracks in said grout. I'm going to have to call the contractor to have him take a look and see what can be done. Sigh.

Mail Call

From: Gary M. Berg
To: Dan Seto
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 2:10 AM
Subject: MT comment problems

I happened to get a pointer to this in a newsletter today Lockergnome, I think):

http://cheerleader.yoz.com/archives/000849.html

From: Dan Seto
To: Gary M. Berg
Subject: Re: MT comment problems
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 06:44:36 -1000

Thanks Gary, there are several different ways of hacking MT to try to reduce spam. As is suggested on the site, MT itself needs to get into motion to implement and support their own solution as the quality of various hacks are, shall we say, uneven.

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From: Al Hedstrom
To: Dan Seto
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 6:40 PM
Subject: MT Spam

Dan -

Check out http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2003/09/killing_comment_spam_dead. Maybe not a complete solution, but ...

From: Dan Seto
To: Al Hedstrom
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: MT Spam

Thanks Al. This looks better than some of the other solutions people have come up with but I'm not so sure a blacklist is the way to go. I'll re-read the site to be sure I understand what they are doing but I would really rather have MT themselves come up with something that they would support.

In either case, I still have my email address there so if anyone wants to email a comment they can do that.

From: Al Hedstrom
To: Dan Seto
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 7:05 AM
Subject: RE: MT Spam

Understood. And all I can offer is commiseration!

I see a lot of other MT blogs struggling with the same problem. The MT folks offer nothing - not even notes on research/tests?

Just curious.

From: Dan Seto
To: Al Hedstrom
Subject: Re: MT Spam
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 07:09:37 -1000

Nothing official on their site (at least nothing I could find). There is a lot of message traffic in their forums but nothing that I found that suggests MT is working on a solution that will be incorporated into an update. On the other hand, I can't imagine that they aren't doing something.

Aloha!