Archive for December, 2006

Is your comment spam still there?

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

After finding many (+1000) comment spams in my wordpress blog I took a look at my database tables. After marking something as spam it still lurks around in the wordpress database (table wp_comments)
SELECT COUNT(*), comment_approved FROM wp_comments GROUP BY comment_approved;
+———-+——————+
| COUNT(*) | comment_approved |
+———-+——————+
| 68 | 1 [...]

Data entry and usability

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

For the past few days I’ve been doing temp work as a customer relations assistant dealing with letters from annoyed train company customers (Some of them are whiny but others I can well understand why they are pissed off).
The software I used is a CRM system (Remedy Action Request System 4.0) and basically my [...]