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Twitter Performance Problems, The Root Cause

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Alistair

The performance and scalability problems of Twitter have been covered to death, so I won’t wax lyrical about the different reasons that the micro-blogging service has had performance and uptime problems over the last year. With the advent of cloud … Continue reading →

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Jim “Mr Shy” Mirkalami

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Alistair

In February, I wrote about receiving comment spam from a guy by the name of Jim Mirkalami. Since that time, there has been a lot of different people writing about the spam that they’ve received from our friend Jim; however … Continue reading →

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Jim Mirkalami, The Lurking Spammer

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Alistair

Today I received a curious comment into #if debug: Name: Jim Mirkalami Email: jim@homenetmail.com IP: 74.14.19.186 Comment: I have been visiting this site a lot lately, so i thought it is a good idea to show my appreciation with a … Continue reading →

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Akismet Losing Its Mojo?

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Alistair

I have long praised the free spam fighting service Akismet but yesterday a horribly obvious spam comment wasn’t filtered which is very unusual. I’ll include the comment here so people can see what I’m referring to: Name: Armond Site: http://groups.google.com/group/otekal/web/free-bestiality-sex-stories … Continue reading →

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You Know You’re Popular When

Posted on December 29, 2007 by Alistair

Today my personal site was pinged by Live Business Radio. As I do as a matter of course, I checked out the Live Business Radio web site and was disappointed to find that it’s nothing more than your average run … Continue reading →

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