Found some old presentations
Posted Sat, 03 Jan 2009
While doing backups of my important personal stuff (this website, my code,
etc), I found some presentations I'd done in school:
I also removed a pile of comments that were spam or people testing the comment
system. Some comments had unicode characters in them causing python to barf (I
have a python cgi script that helps me search/delete comments), but doing
.encode("latin-1") fixed it.
There were only a few spams that got past my scripts. I might add word filtering to the pyblosxom comment plugin so crap mentioning viagra and cialis won't even be permitted. Still seeing these happily in my logs:
REJECT: Comment attempt by 193.203.99.31 rejected. Reason: expired secret, referer: http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/articles/week-of-unix-tools/day-1-sed.html REJECT: Comment attempt by 78.110.175.18 rejected. Reason: javascript test failed (expiration ok), referer: http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/