I just spent a couple of hours cleaning link spam off of the gimp ui wiki. What a pain in the ass. Damn online pharmacys paying for people to vandalize other peoples wiki’s. What they need is some insulin, metrazol, electricity, hydrotherapy, occupational therapy, ping-pong and amnesia.
I added a bunch of terms to the $wgSpamRegex and hopefully I won’t have as much trouble in the future. Unfortunatly I’m sure that the enemy will copy the email spammers and start misspelling stuff to get past the filters.

Way back last month when I was designing the theme for this site with gimp I ran into a bug in the ripple plug-in. The anti-aliasing was totaly bogus. Unfortunatly I had to finish the design in photoshop because of it. A couple of days later I fixed the bug in the plug-in. I then let it sit on my harddrive for a month. Last night I finaly sent it off to cvs.

Some people might accuse me of being lazy. I prefer to think that I was letting the bug-fix marinate. You place the code on a hard drive with a mixture of open source spices and let it sit for a white. It soaks up the flavors and makes the software much tastier. Then again maybe I’m just lazy.

After much playing around with different blogging software I have settled on using wordpress. Joomla! seemed like good software also, but way overkill and a little too complicated for my simple site.

Eventually I’ll probably add a gallery using Gallery2 and wpg2.