Blackhacker

Recently I upgraded to WP 2.1 The changes they made to the database aren’t sitting well with some of my custom widgets, specifially the one that manages my blogroll. You may have seen or will see strange stuff as I try to fix it. As I do everything live on in full view of the world.

Lately I have been waging a war against a referrer spam. In particular against a notorious spammer, known to me only as “Jane Phill.” Just googling reveals that he has left his mark across the entire blogosphere. Never the less I think I have defeted him and have kept him from polluting my statitics with refferal from domains about viagra or texas-holdem (i wonder what kind of adds this post will generate )

“So B, How did you do it?”

Glad you asked.

Details are here.

Anyone who has a site that displays the TTLB Ecosystem status, or has visited one, knows that when TTLB slows down, every one slows down. This is a handy plugin I found on the WP-Plugin database that caches your status daily to a file. It both alliviates stress on TTLB and bullet proofs your site when TTLB is having a “growing pain.”