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And yet another Orkut Hoax has popped up. Boy do people sure have imagination!
The mail reads as:
someone by your name scraps u,delete it immedietly within 10seconds. Its a virus. Tell everyone on your list because if somebody on your list feads the scrap then his comp will also be affected. It is a hard drive [...]

Yet another Orkut hoax floating around on the internet is this one:
GIRLS BEWARE PLEASE.. IT IS SERIOUS! HELP URSELF
It has recently been found out that there are some spammers present on Orkut who download the Photographs of Girls from their Profile and they get 5 cent per photograph. This photographs are later sent into Image [...]

I simply can’t understand how gullible people can be, and most of them are engineers (some even computer engineers) and MBAs!
I last posted about a similar orkut hoax and now I’ve received over 10 messages in the past 3 days from friends with contents as follows:
Dear user because of sudden rush of people signing upto [...]

The other while checking my Siltide Sitescore the other day, I found that it kept reporting that it couldn’t find my site.
I could see that my blog was working and I was even able to validate it as well. Just meant a probable blocking of the site.
On disabling Bad Behavior I found that I [...]

Came across this nice article on avoiding registration on free websites, thereby reducing SPAM.
You can do this using BugMeNot.
Read the full article.

Update: This tutorial is now superceded by A Comprehensive Guide to Protecting Your Blog from Spam.
Comment spam is something every blogger is really really afraid of. Over the past two years that I have been using WordPress this is one problem that I have faced on and off.
I realized that the amount of spam I [...]

This post is dedicated to one very useful plugin viz. Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter Plugin.
Today I found a post on my blog appear at a feed-stealers site.
But, thanks to the plugin (which I had installed not expecting it’s use) the idiot’s site now has a blaring copyright violation message posted on it.
I really recommend you start [...]

Have just released the latest version of my Bad Behavior Stats plugin viz. v1.6.
It is now compatible with Bad Behavior 1.2.
It now counts both 403 and 412 errors.
Read more and download the plugin>>

I have released v1.2 of Transpose Email plugin.
The code remains same. Just a few minor corrections in the readme and the writeup on the plugin page. (Thanks to Dean for pointing this out)

I have released v1.1 of Transpose Email plugin.
It fixes the javascript error when the blog was served as application/xhtml+xml
Thanks to Sam Stevens for informing me that my example on my blog didn’t work in firefox
The plugin has now been tested on Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera on Windows XP when the page is served [...]