Quite a while ago, I complained about spam. Since then I have been looking for a solution. Wordpress has many different default ways to deal with spam, but it still necessited constant monitoring, and quite a few spam still gets through the crack.

So much so, that I still have to delete about 10 or so spam that goes through a week. Finally, I resorted to switching off allowing comments and pings on some posts that seem to attract the most spam. That is not desirable, as I would rather make it easier, not harder, for my readers to comment on my posts. Finally, I found Akismet, a plugin that not only traps 99% of spam but is intelligent enough to learn. I installed it last weekend, and held my breath. It seemed to work quite well, and after the first couple of days, I got brave enough to turn on comments and pings on those posts that were most affected previously.

It has been a week now, and it is still working. I have not had a spam slip through. Akismet reported that it had trapped 24 since it was installed. So, I am hopeful. If you run Wordpress, you will need to have an account on wp.com to get an API key (installing Flock will also do the trick) in order to activate Akismet. It is well worth the effort. I highly recommend that you get it.

When my wife and I married, as I sometimes tell friends, it was the marriage of Miss Always Right with Mr Never Wrong. As it turned out, the early years of our marriage were filled with lots of battles and the outcome of those clashes often hurt. Both parties. It was never a good idea to fight for your right when the one you are fighting with is the one you love. For someone is bound to get hurt as a result.

In recent years I have mellowed quite a bit, but also I have grown to appreciate that life is about relationships. I think that is also a Biblical imperative. Rather than seek to be right, I have learned that it is more important to seek right relationships.

A case in point is something that happened at work recently. My colleague maintained that a mistake has been made in a calculation of costs in a sale I recently made. It was a really busy day, and I was trying to concentrate on the next sale that i have to make. However, my colleague was adamant that I help him to sort out the error (the implication being: if you fouled up, dude, you better clean it up). I looked at the figures and it was actually correct, but I wasn’t able to convince my colleague. For one thing, I saw his working and I did not understand the way he had done the calculation, so I tried to explain it to him using my way of calculation which worked out the figures correctly. However, he could not understand my way of calculation.

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The blogger over at Eternal Revolution, Chad Hamilton, is has a lot of stamina or perhaps he is suffering from insomnia. In any case, he has very ably handled two Carnivals back-to-back this week. First it was the God or Not carnival of posts culled from both sides of the theistic belief fence and then it is the Christian Carnival.

My entry for the Christian Carnival this week is More on Old and New Testament Moralities. I missed posting about last week’s Christian Carnival which was held at the Wittenberg Gate, to which I managed to submit a late entry. Lots of good blog reading to be had. Enjoy!