A Quantum Immortal

I was waiting for such a post to upgrade. Took 6 minutes, including this post, using Wordpress Auto-Upgrade plugin. Still need to explore the new version though. And I still need to tweak Simple Tags plugins.

Update – Things I like:

1. I finally found where to manage spam comments. I accidentally marked a bunch of legitimate comments as spam the other week, and for the life of me, just couldn’t find how to undo it. In 2.7, you can access all comments from the dashboard.
2. Finally, built in Ajax

Six months ago, an anti-SPAM law was passed in Israel, and it’s supposedly enforced from today.
The law is opt-in, meaning people have to agree explicitly subscribe in order to receive SPAM.

This didn’t deter some “honest businessmen” from sending me SPAM about this very law, stating that in order to stop receiving more SPAM I have to opt-out. As you may know, any reply to SPAM requesting removal will just increase your incoming SPAM flow.

Remember, Israeli’s anti-SPAM law is opt-in.

I was happily using Google, when:

Ok, I thought, let’s give it a try:

Seems innocent enough, let’s proceed:

Scroll down, WTF???!

It just got sent to my blog, alongside everyone I ever talked to on Gmail.

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In the constant evolutionary battle between spam and spam filters, we keep seeing new tricks spammers are using. Today, I got this message (passed my Gmail spam filter).

Update
I tried just copying the text from my mail, but this malformed HTML messed up not only this post, but also other posts on my blog – so instead I’m attaching an image.

Well, this was quick. I just opened this blog like 3-4 days ago and already I got some spam. I knew this was going to happen, I’m just surprised at how quick. Let’s power up the captcha…