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Stopping the comment spam on a WordPress blog

I cleaned out all the spam that was in this blogs moderation queue, and decided to do something about preventing it.  Since my host has disabled outgoing net connections, my akismet spam protection plugin has stopped working, so the spam queue filled up a lot.
I decided to try and find a new spam prevention plugin [...]

Math(s) Rock(s) – The Innumerably Innumerable – [ Staircase @ The Courtauld Gallery ]

Math(s) Rock(s) – The Innumerably Innumerable – [ Staircase @ The Courtauld Gallery ]
Originally uploaded by steeev
Math(s) Rock(s) – The Innumerably Innumerable – [ Staircase @ The Courtauld Gallery ]
Looks like an eye doesnt it? Its the view from below of the spiral staircase in the Courtauld Gallery in Somerset House, London
The Indian [...]

Dead Pigeon – Roadkill

Dead Pigeon – Roadkill
Originally uploaded by steeev

I saw this dead pigeon in the road, whilst i was on my way to Salzburg’s House of Nature museum. It reminded me a bit of the Austrian flag.

Oh great and wise Google, what have I done to offend thee?

Ive been wondering for a while now, why this site ( http://steeev.freehostia.com ) is no longer appearing in Google search results. In fact it apparently hasnt been in there since December 2007! I know this because I signed up to the Google WebMaster tools site. And they can tell you when your site was last [...]

Firefox 3 Beta 4 – Unusual disk thrashing problem – turned out to be the URL classifier security feature

A couple of months or so ago, I had a revelatory web browsing experience. I had been using firefox 1.5 for what seems like forever, i briefly tried FF2 and found it to be a terrible resource hog, and quite unstable, so went back to the 1.5 which itself was quite a memory hog.
Anyway, I [...]

Concrete Baby – An Eerie Sculpture Outside St Martin in the Fields Church

Concrete Baby
Originally uploaded by steeev
A photo of a concrete baby – An Eerie Sculpture Outside St Martin in the Fields Church. It appears to be chiseled out of the rock, the funny thing is you just see a big square slab of rock from the other side, its only when you go behind the [...]

Le Petit Géant

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Le Petit Géant, originally uploaded by steeev.
Le Petit Géant, a massive animatronic girl marionette that walked around london for a couple of days in 2006 along with the [...]

All Along The WatchTower

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All Along The WatchTower, originally uploaded by steeev.
Brick Lane, London, Outside the Old Truman Brewery, in between the Vibe Bar and 93 Feet East, taken some time in [...]

The Voice of the Mysterons

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The Voice of the Mysterons, originally uploaded by steeev.
The lights on the church danced around magically, I should have made a video of it.
The building is called Christ [...]

The Crazy House – Near Brick Lane

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The Crazy House – Near Brick Lane, originally uploaded by steeev.
I was searching for Banksy’s latest (the double yellow lines daisy) and chanced upon this marvelous house sized [...]