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Do You Akismet?

I just sent this on to the Akismet team, but wanted to post it here also in case anyone had advice for me. (Also, if you know of any really cool, must have WP 2.0 plugins, feel free to let me know. I *heart* plugins.)

When I log into review the “Caught Spam” I get conflicting numbers. I just installed it last night. First, at the top, it reads, “Akismet has caught 37 for you since you installed it.”

37. Great. Perfect.

Then just below (in the same box), it reads, “There are currently 16 comments identified as spam.” Ok, 16 … what happened to 37? Or are duplicates not counted?

Then, just below that, there are only 9 comments displayed for me to review. Not 37 or even 16. Just 9.

I’m so confused.

Any thoughts?

BlahBlahBabble Changelog

Fancy Fresh!

As you can see (well, if you’re not reading this via RSS, I guess), Mike upgraded my WP install last night to the brand new fancy fresh WP 2.0. So far, so good! Even though it only took him a few minutes to do the upgrade, I had reached my maximum online time already and could tell that any more typing was not a wise idea, so he hooked me up!
As an added bonus, comments are now going live right away! Yeah! I had one or two waiting for moderation, but not 100 (or 1000, or 2000) like I have sometimes in the past. I never could find what was causing the problem with my anti-spam list in my previous WP install. I’m sure there was a blank space in there somewhere, but I couldn’t see it. I’m just happy that it is behaving now! I had Mike set up Akismet for me also – have to contribute to the greater good of hunting down spam! I’m always hesitant to use services that will affect my site if they go down though – what happens if Akismet goes down?

I decided to go with the default template for the moment until I iron some kinks out with my old one. The Pink Paris template is too narrow for my photographs – I need a main column at least 520 pixels wide – so for now, default it is. I’m sure I’ll be tweaking it more over the next week before I go back to school.

Only complaint so far? I’m used to hitting “Enter” twice between paragraphs when writing a post. When I do that in WP 2.0, it translates to something like 3-4 returns instead of just two. Nice of them to make it double space for me, but it is going to take some getting used to using!

Let me know if you see anything wonky going on – especially if you use the RSS feed. I still need to check that out myself. This is so exciting – I have to admit, I think I was still on WP 1.2! I feel so cutting edge now! (Want to learn more about WordPress 2.0? Newsforge has a great article. Thanks to Matt for the link.)

BlahBlahBabble Picture Time

Drink Up!

Another one of my photographs from our afternoon at the Cockrell Butterfly Center. To see it in its full glory, click on it to get to Flickr.

The fun thing about photographing butterflies, especially when using the close-up filters, is that I never really know for sure what I got until I get home and view the pictures full size. Some of them looked great in the small preview screen on the camera, but when I got home the part I wanted to see as clear (like the face of the butterfly) was fuzzy – I have such a small margin of focus to work with that it makes it more of a challenge – and gives me more satisfaction when I find the quality photographs in the bunch.

Hand Update: I took the steri-strips off last night (ew) and got to see my incisions for the first time. When did I become so freakin’ squeamish? I never had issues with things like this before, and now … ew. That is all I could say, over and over. Ew.

I’ve gone without my splint for most of the day today (the doctor said I don’t need it, but can wear it if I want) and so far, so good. I do still feel like my hand is curved and I can’t straighten it – like I am holding the computer mouse. I think that is just from the soft-cast and the incision in the center of my hand, and I’m sure as the scab goes away it will get better. I have some pain in my wrist and thumb still, especially when I try to move my hand from side-to-side. I also have difficulties opening things like jars or turning doornobs. My overall recovery time is 6 weeks though, and we aren’t even at the 3 week mark yet, so I know some of this will improve with time.

I’m off to try to knit now. I signed up in November for a class on Aran sweater knitting next Tuesday taught by Beth Brown-Reinsel and I want to make sure I’m up for it! I would really hate to miss this class, but there is a waiting list to get in. If I’m not up to knitting, I can pass my spot on to someone else. The doctor said I’m ready; I hope he is right!

Amuse Me

Get Out!

Dude, Britney Spears left a comment on my blog. I mean really, how cool is that?

(Insert extremely sarcastic tone.)

Seems she needs to learn how to spell. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – there is no “red” in ridiculous. You may get red when you feel that way, but there is no red in the word. I guess she doesn’t know that since she is busy doing important “stuf” and all that. Poor thing.

Picture Time

Greatest Hits of 2005…

Not all of the photographs were taken in 2005, but they were all “favorited” by the Flickr community in 2005, so I decided that was close enough. (Maybe in 2006 I’ll finally get all of my old photos online (especially Paris and Philly), in addition to staying on top of the new ones. My Flickr resolution!)

For a view of the individual images, you can look at them in the Top 20 Set. I am amused that 5 out of the 20 are from the “fancypants” camera (aka the Canon 20d), yet it has only seen 2-3 outings since I got it in November thanks to my hand surgery. One of the images (the butterfly) was taken on December 30th, barely making the cut-off!

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.

Blog software update coming soon, in case you notice anything weird. Layout change to follow, to make posting photos here more “size-friendly” for me.