East of the Sun, West of the Moon

I’m going to take it slow here, but for people who don’t mind crashing and burning on not-quite-finished software I would like to point out the (apparently very unofficial) Firefox 2.0 alpha release. Links to installation packages can be found at Ars Technica and TechCrunch.

Update: It was apparently really not intended to be the alpha release. Awww, waiting for the real thing now.

Ok, that was the final straw!

There had occasionally been minor floods of spam-comments, like a dozen or so and then nothing or not much for days or weeks. Then in the past 24 hours there were over 150 of them! I’d like a game of poker as much as the next person but after all that comment-spam from these poker sites (I assume, given the keywords used) I’ll have a bad taste in my mouth next time I actually play.

So now I’ve gone and installed Spam Karma 2 and I get to sit back, cross my fingers, and find out how well that works for me and this site.

All the settings are pretty much default, which I assume are sufficiently sane, but I will of course keep an eye on the logs to make sure I’m not accidentally blocking legit comments when there are some, every few months.