A few items of interest, interesting to me at least.

• From the WordPress dashboard:
  Akismet has protected your site from 1,020 spam comments
  This is since I switched hosting services, where I’d gotten up to at least a few hundred. Akismet seems very effective. I’ve only had I think one comment marked as spam which was genuine, and only about three spam comments got through the filter. I don’t know where to see how many “real” comments I’ve received (it’s about 400), but even counting my own comments, the spam is winning. This is about my 80th post, so I have about 5 comments and 12 spams per post.
• A second spike in WPStats:
  I used my site stats to illustrate http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/2008/06/02/moving-averages/, http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/2008/06/01/highlight-certain-time-periods-in-a-chart/, and seasonally adjusted figures. I commented on a spike in page views on 8 May. Last Wednesday, 4 June, I noticed someone had bookmarked a post in the social networking service Stumble Upon. On Thursday, 5 June, the page views slightly exceeded the earlier spike, which wasn’t as impressive, because the baseline has increased. However, on Friday, 6 June, there was a further increase, and over the weekend, the numbers remained elevated (compared to typical weekend numbers). I have since activated a WordPress plugin that adds buttons to bookmark blog entries in a number of these social networks. Hey, whatever drives traffic, right?
  
  Monday’s numbers (not included in the chart) are around 1100, midway between the two high values from late last week.
• row, row, row your FAIL boat
  This unfortunate quad hails from the rowing club that my daughter belongs to. I showed her the picture because I thought she’d find it interesting, and she recognized the striped unis. She looked it up on the club’s web site, and the guys were joking about scraping bottom. It happened in May down in Rhode Island.

  
  more funny fail pictures at FAIL Blog

  Comment by keelhaul: “Two French mimes, Ernest Hemingway, and the professor from Gilligan’s Island, were rowing to a bar…………”

 

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