Bikerscum - Patrick St. Jean

I upgraded the blog software today and while you may not notice anything different, I sure did. I've been reluctant to update the software because it's been a pain to do. I've had to customize some stuff, like the Adsense code, Google search, Google An… more »

I've been getting slammed by more and more comment spam over the last few days and have finally had enough. I'm implementing the captcha solution from village-idiot.org. I know it's not perfect and that there is software out there to defeat them but it… more »

I've reconfigured the b2evolution installation to accept posts via e-mail. This will make it a lot easier to post while I'm on the road since I'm not bringing a laptop. This is all going to be done via my Palm and phone. more »

Sorry about the poor performance, my poor server's getting the stuffing beaten out of it by one massive referrer spam run. I've got mod_rewrite passing out 301's to (hopefully) redirect the clients back to the site they're spamming for, but the router's… more »

I just finished patching b2evolution's code to support Google's approach to blocking comment spam (Google Blog entry). The info was taken from this forum thread. more »

I just found a pretty cool blog related game called BlogShares. It's a virtual stockmarket based on blogs. I'm now listed and there are shares of this blog for sale. One of the interesting blogs that I happened across while there is Farzad's Blog, s… more »

Grrr... I've wasted a good chunk of my time cleaning up a bunch of referrer spammers. They've now been banninated inside apache and won't be getting anything but a 403. In case anyone's interested, here's what I've used to ban them (I'm obvously chang… more »

So for the last few days I've been fighting a few sites that decided to put links to the bikerscum domains on their pages, one of which describes it as a porn site. It's obviously not, and so after a little mod_rewrite work visitors coming in from there… more »