Akismet blocked 10,000 spam comments

Today drebel.net hit it’s 10,000′th spam comment.
Akismet has only failed to identify roughly a dozen spam, which in the big picture really is nothing compared to the amount that successfully has been blocked.

I first enabled Akismet on May 1, 2006. Thank you Akismet.
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See You At The Beach 1.0 by Small Potato

See You At The Beach is one of the best Wordpress themes I’ve seen in a long time. It’s clean, professional and widget ready. I’ll sport this theme for a while, I just need to customize it to my liking. I’ll change some fonts and probably replace the stock banner image to one of my [...]

Panic theme up.

Ok my eyes got all crosseyed and I just had to enable a different theme. This is the TechPress Theme and it’s made by Small Potato.
:|
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New colour scheme.

I changed the colours on the site with the help of Kuler. It’s a great tool when you need inspiration for your site.
:-D
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Posts showing up double after 2.1 upgrade?

The Sideblog Wordpress Plugin is not compatible with Wordpress 2.1. When that plugin was enabled my posts showed up twice and in some cases even three times on the main blog page. After deactivating the plugin everything went back to normal again.
Please note that I can only speak for version 3.5 of the Sideblog [...]

WordPress 2.1 Ella

WordPress 2.1 Ella was released today and I just upgraded. No problems so far but if anyone finds any oddities please let me know!
:)
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WP 2.0.7 - Security update

Everyone is urged to upgrade to 2.0.7 because of a security vulnerability. Only a handful of files need to be upgraded though so it’s a simple task. Go to Wordpress.org for instructions.
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Akismet blocked 5,000 spam comments

Akismet has today blocked the 5,000th spam comment on the digital rebel. I enabled Akismet on May 1, 2006.
See the screenshot from the Wordpress dashboard below:

Only a handful of these were not real spam comments. Thank you Akismet! :D
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Theme remix

I’m making my own ‘Remix’ of the GreyBlog theme.
Done: header image, basic font coloring, spiffify navigation titles in sidebar
To do: further font tweaks, spiffify navigation titles in sidebar, rearrange sidebar (possibly move links to subpage and put image feeds on sidebar)
Maybes: reduce number of posts on front page, put other feeds below (that’s a big [...]

Wordpress 2.0.6 is out

It is a security release and everyone is recommended to upgrade. This is what’s new:
* The aforementioned security fixes.
* HTML quicktags now work in Safari browsers.
* Comments are filtered to prevent them from messing up your blog layout.
* Compatibility with PHP/FastCGI setups.
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