Mr Papa’s World

Well, I finally broke down and bought a laptop computer. I have been wanting one for personal use for some time now, but could never justify the expenditure. I am not really sure that I did this time either, but never the less, I now have a laptop.

I envision using it on family trips and for easy computer access from various points around the house. Since we take a fair number of family trips, it will allow me to keep an eye on all of my websites when away from the house. For those long dance weekends, where countless hours are spent watching other parents’ kids dance, I can slip out and do some compute work until my kids are ready to dance.

Set up and installation of the laptop was a piece of cake and went off without a hitch. I must say I am pretty … READ MORE

Spam continues to be a problem here at Mr Papa’s World.  I recently wrote about some of the tools I use here.

In the last week or so, I have run into some serious trouble with the Bad Behavior plugin blocking good folks like me!  Prior to about a week ago, it was stopping a lot of spammers from even reaching my site.  This had the side benefit of saving me some bandwidth too.  Then all of a sudden, it stopped being nearly as effective.

Akismet is the other piece of software I use to defeat spam.  While Bad Behavior was functioning, Akismet had to do very little to stop spam since it never reached Akismet.  Prior to Bad Behavior, Akismet was stopping several hundred spams a day.

Well, with Bad Behavior going on the fritz about a week ago, Akismet slowly started ramping up spam stops again.  When Bad Behavior started blocking … READ MORE