AshesFromStars

I’ve just logged into WordPress for the first time in quite a while to be confronted by over 100 spam comments. That has never, ever happened to me before - I’m lucky if I get one comment at all. It also takes away from my theory that installing plugins like Askimet and SpamKarma actually increase your likely hood of getting more spam. I don’t have any spam busting plugins on this blog at all, as I was fed up ‘marking comments as spam’ on the previous installation of WordPress here.

So, looks like I’m going to have to find a good spam fighting plugin that does exactly what it says on the tin - other than the two big names in WordPress plugins. Any recommendations?

Last night I spent around 6 hours writing up answers for my Management Training Program, and tonight I’m supposed to be typing it all up, but I’ve not started yet. Considering I’m up at 5am (it’s currently 9.30pm) I need to get a move on. I’m taking my laptop with me to Head Office tomorrow to sit in the office and type my little heart out so I don’t need to finish tonight but I have so much work to do. It completely and utterly serves me right, I’ve had two months to finish these two modules and yet I’ve left it until the last week as per usual. I think this one has taken me so long because it’s the most boring thing about running a shop - Newspaper & Magazines. I deal with our supplier in work a lot and they’re incompetent idiots, which makes me resent doing anything to do with them. Funny considering they’ve got the monopoly in paper distribution in the UK they can’t seem to get the basics right.

The good news is that the course must be finished for January 2009 as this is when the awards ceremony is. I think I’ll need to be on holiday that week, I don’t much fancy that and having my picture in the quarterly magazine sent to all staff members. Eh, no. I don’t do photographs.

I suppose I should get on with it really, although with my will power at the moment I’ll have to unplug the cable for the router and get my brother to hide it as I’ve got so much catching up to do online too.