This is some of what we discovered on our fridge post Halloween party. What gems are created by drunk people!
Author: westi
SK2 – Simple Digest plugin – Version 1.0 Released
I am pleased to announce an important update to my Spam Karma 2 Simple Digest plugin – the functional changes are small but its worth upgrading to the latest version as some of them may prove quite useful to you if you suffer from high spam levels.
The plugin now boasts a karma threshold setting. Any comment which has a karma below this threshold will not make it into your digest emails which should help sort the wheat from the chaff. The plugin is also ready for translation which I’ve heard may make it into the next SK2 release as well. Both of these changes are courtesy of the zedrdave himself. I have also updated the format of the digest report to make it a bit more readable.
So what are you waiting for? Head off over here to the plugins main page and download the latest version!
Keeping track of traffic problems via the web
There are a number of different free and paid for sites on the web that allow you to keep track of current traffic problems that might affect you motorway journey in the uk. Two of the best are Realtime Traffic Info and Traffic England both from the Highways Agency. I have recently discovered Traffic Map which seems to be even better. It looks like an improved version of the “Realtime Traffic Info” page without the speed issues that this page can sometimes display. Not only does it display current speed and the text on the large matrix signs it is also able to display the speed matrix signs for the variable speed limit section of the M25 near Heathrow. Very useful.
Retrospective and Prospective
Looking through my dashboard recently I realised that I was approaching a turning point – This is my 100th live blog entry! Therefore I have decided to dedicate this post to look back at what has been and looking forward at what is still to come.
Retrospective
First the obligatory statistics. As of now this blog has been up for 19 months 22 days and contains 100 posts and 144 comments spread across 15 categories. Spam Karma 2 since installed has caught over 5000 attempted spam comments. The most postings in any month was in July 2005. Looking back there have been highs and lows – some times I’ve managed to post every day for stretchs at a time and others I’ve struggled to get one post a month up :-(.
Prospective
Looking forward to the future there are a number of things I would like to achieve. First off I need to check through Jakob Nielsen’s “Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes” – I know at least that I still lack a proper About page! At some point in the future I feel another redesign coming on – I think I need to strip the design back down to basics and also include proper ad placement in the design – adverts came after the last design was conceived and don’t completely fit in. There are also a number of plugin ideas that I have and I would like to find time to implement at least some of them.