Comment Spam

Recently the comment spam on my blog has been getting out of hand (I get so few real comments that I’ve considered turning comments off altogether but that seems to break the whole blogging paradigm for me)
I’ve always had moderation turned on so none of it ever makes it on to the user viewable pages but deleting the spam every day was becoming a bit of a bore.

So I thought I’d try out drDave’s Spam Karma – I’ve had it running for a few days now and it seems to be working very well. The digest reports are useful and I’ve not had any false positive results yet!

Woking Beer Festival 2004

Went to the Woking Beer Festival today.

Had a good time and sampled a variety of good beers including in no particular order:

  • Dark Star‘s Hophead (3.8% abv)
  • Beowulf’s Dragon Smoke Stout (4.7% abv)
  • Berrow‘s Topsy Turvy (6% abv) – which didn’t taste anywhere near as strong as the 6% that it was.
  • Hogs Back‘s TEA (Traditional English Ale) (3.8% abv)
  • Westerham‘s Black Eagle SPA (3.8% abv)
  • Wharfedale‘s Executioner (4.5% abv)

We also enjoyed the Pork & Apple Baps and Len Rawle playing the Mighty Woking Wurlitzer.