Akismet not catching spam, popularity contest known issues

Been getting a lot more spam lately, and Akismet fails to catch them. Have 1000+ caught by Akismet, and 300+ which are spam, but not caught by Akismet. And that over the last 3 days. That’s too bad for Akismet, or too good for the spammers. Have re-activated HashCash plugin, so let’s see what happens […]

Video remix

Mayank and VaibhaV told me they saw me on TV. Two other friends too were like: “Hey dude, what were you doing on TV the other day? Taking Yana Gupta‘s pictures?” And I went like: “Oh! Are they still showing that?” And if television channels were not enough, now even YouTube has it! I do […]

Google’s Code Review system

Read a post about Mondrian – a code reviewing system that Python creator Guido van Rossum created at Google. (on Niall Kennedy’s blog) It looks very impressive. Unfortunately it is restricted to Google and not open source’d yet since it relies heavily on Google technology. I have been doing some code reviews at work, and […]

FOSS infrastructure for your organization

I talked about building a FOSS Infrastructure for your organization at foss.in/2006. You can download the slides from the foss.in site as well.

Short visit to Trivandrum

I am waiting at the Trivandrum airport to board homebound Air Deccan flight. The flight has been rescheduled twice already, and I hope I reach home on time. It was a short trip to Trivandrum after having a great time at foss.in in Bangalore. Met a few people regarding a potential business venture. Good idea […]