The other day I finally got fed up with the crappy Spam filtering on my website's email. Instead of learn how to better improve my Spam rules I decided to jump on the shoulder's of giants and setup Google Apps for your Domain on my website. It was a pretty easy setup and after all the DNS changes went through I now have Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs all setup. Am I going to need my own Calendar and Docs services? Probably not. I love me some Gmail though and I haven't seen a piece of Spam since. I love it. Go Google Apps for my Domain!
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I have decided to join the Web 2.0 revolution and integrate the infamous Digg It button on my blog. Did I do this because I think what I say here is so very ground breaking that the whole world needs to know about it? Of course not. I have just seen the button on every other blog in the world and I'm not cool enough to be different. Maybe it'll actually be some motivation for me to write about something meaningful instead of just website updates. Who knows.
I finally got my butt in gear and got the comment feature working on here. In order to fight the stupid comment spammers I have my blog setup to require users to authenticate with a 3rd party before you can post a comment. I'm using the default suggestion TypeKey for the authentication service cause it's the default, I'm lazy and I'm sure it works fine.
I know having to create an account just to leave a commet might be annoying for some is not most of you but it's log in to leave a comment or no comments at all. This is much easier than we weeding through and deleting endless spam comments, trust me.
So it turns out that I couldn't stay away afterall. After I posted the previous entry I decided that my website looked crappy now and needed a little look and feel update. After surfing around and looking for ideas I ended up on the Movable Type website and saw that they had released a ton of versions since I last checked it out with a bunch of features. Most exciting of which were features to fight off comment spammers, possibly the most annoying people on the internet. I downloaded it right away and got to it.
After of course backing up everything at least twice because I don't trust any installation of any kind I started the upgrade process. It was super easy and the new version works great so kudos to the Movable Type guys. I love the new features and admin interface and I'm going to enable comments on here as soon as I get that feature setup properly, take that spamming bitches.
The other neat thing was the ability to style my website at the click of a button. Very cool and very easy to use feature. Hence what I thought was going to be a couple nights of annoying HTML and CSS work was instead 1 hour of installation and a couple button clicks. It's just that easy.
What all this means is that I'm back in the world of blogging. Will it stick this time? Probably not. Will I give it up again? Probably. But for now I'm a blogging machine.
