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Daily Archives: July 9, 2007

Dubious Milestone: Spam 10K

Just the other day, I noticed that my Akismet Spam filter for the blog had blocked it’s 10,000th Spam comment. That’s a lotta spam.

Akismet Spam Zeitgeist Stats from July 10, 2007It’s amazing to me how much Internet bandwidth must be consumed by spam-bots posting to blogs and forums. The official Akismet website hosts a segment they call the Spam Zeitgeist. I’ve included a screenshot of the stats as they are at the time of this post. Currently 94% of all comments processed by Akismet-enabled blogs are spam. That’s just wrong.

Since the folks from Akismet started measuring the number of Spam their nifty little tool has caught back in March of 2006, it has eliminated over 2.03 Billion (yes, with a “B”) blog spam messages. That’s an average of over 135 Million every month!

Thank You Akismet for keeping us all safe!

MP3 Ringtones for your Treo 700wx

This is something that had been plaguing me for several months since I acquired my Palm Treo 700wx.  Overall I’ve loved the device and found it absolutely indispensable.  There are of course a few niggling details like the lack of a scroll wheel, but overall I’ve been really happy with it.

One thing I couldn’t figure out is why despite it’s ability to play MP3 files, there didn’t seem to be a way to set them as ringtones.  With MIDI files, there was a context menu option to make this happen, not so with MP3s.  So I scoured the Internet looking for something, anything which would give me a lead.   After finding nothing, I was thoroughly prepared to give up.

Windows Media 5.0 Ringtones FolderThen it hit me, why not browse through the phone and see if anything twigs.  After only a few minutes of searching, I stumbled upon the answer:

Under the folder: /My Device/Windows/ there is a folder called Rings.

Just place your favourite MP3 file in that folder, and it will show up on the ringtone list.  sigh  The tough ones always turn out to have the simplest of answers.

Finally I can sit back and smile when people call, and I can hear the sound of Transformers changing into their robot form.  :D