Ooooh. The spammers were out in full force last night. I usually only get a small handful of comment spam a day, but yesterday I had over 50! Thank God for the Spam Karma plugin for Wordpress. It successfully trapped everything so I didn’t have to manually clean any of it out. (That totally sounds like some kind of infomercial :P)

I’m using SK2 with the Akismet plugin. While Wordpress 2 comes with its own standalone version of a plugin that uses Akismet to check for spam, I like the control that SK2 gives you; it’s nice to know that some checks are handled locally as opposed to my comments going off someplace I don’t control to have its fate determined. To be fair, I had no problems or false positives or anything when trying the standalone Akismet for several days. It seemed to work just fine.

In other geeky news, I’ve been looking for an different web based RSS aggregator than my trusty feed on feeds one that I’ve been using for the past year or so. I really have no problems with it, but it’s pretty ugly. :P I’ve tried a bunch and Gregarius seems to be the front runner. I’ve had some issues with it, but hopefully those were isolated to the fact that I was running a beta version and not the current release. At least it’s still being developed whereas feed on feeds hasn’t been updated in ages now.

And that’s my tech dump of the morning. Hey… my technology category needs love every once in a while. :)