Archive | June, 2007

23 June 2007 0 Comments

A storm brewing at Akismet?

Akismet – the amazing spam prevention plug-in for WordPress seems to failing quite regularly with me having to remove between ten and twenty spam comments a day. Its madness. And I’m not the only one experiencing this, Veronica Belmont of VeronicaBelmont.com is reporting the same. What is more concerning is the number of false positives [...]

11 June 2007 0 Comments

China: a victim of its own ’success’?

It’s almost 18 years to the day since the infamous student protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. To most in the west, the mere mention of the Tiananmen Square protests will bring up memories of the ‘Unknown Rebel’ who was photographed in a photo of the same name by Jeff Widener standing before a line of [...]