Andy Wood

Day 7 of the spam attack and it would seem that, Gmail’ spam filter caught 90 emails; yet 13 of the emails got all the way to my Outlook 2007.

On this 6th day of my spam analysis, Gmail’ spam filter caught 84 emails; yet 6 of the emails got all the way to my Outlook 2007.

For this Oscar day, Gmail’ spam filter awarded 64 emails; yet only 7 of the supporting emails through, but Outlook 2007 invited them to an aware party of its own.

This ’bout Gmail’ spam filter nailed 76 emails; yet 15 of the little buggers got through to me and Outlook 2007 had to take care of them.

I got started a little late on this round:

This round Gmail’ spam filter nailed 57 emails; but 34 of those critters got through to me and Outlook 2007 had to take care of them.

Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio

Best Actress:
Kate Winslet

Best Picture:
The Departed

These are the main areas for me and this is what I am going with.

You might not be able to tell, but my blog publishing software (Wordpress) was somewhat dates. I was running like vesion 2.05 and since I was running a custom theme, I was not want to make the leap to 2.07 , but I did think that it was time to make the leap to 2.1. (even though there is a 2.1.1 out too)

Here is what is new:

• Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.
• Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
• The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
• Our completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking.
• New search engine privacy option allows you take you to indicate your blog shouldn’t ping or be indexed by search engines like Google.
• You can set any “page” to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system.
• Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions. Domas Mituzas from MySQL went over all our queries with a fine-toothed comb.
• Links in your blogroll now support sub-categories and you can add categories on the fly.
• Redesigned login screen from the Shuttle project.
• More AJAX to make custom fields, moderation, deletions, and more all faster. My favorite is the comments page, which new lets you approve or unapprove things instantly.
• Pages can now be drafts, or private.
• Our admin has been refreshed to load faster and be more visually consistent.
• The dashboard now loads instantly and brings RSS feeds asynchronously in the background.
• Comment feeds now include all the comments, not just the last 10.
• Better internationalization and support for right-to-left languages.
• The upload manager lets you easily manage all your uploads pictures, video, and audio.
• A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled. (this took me a while to find…. )

The updated was very very simple to do and it didn’t break my current theme which I liked alot.

I will not be getting to it for a couple of days though.

Today Gmail as my spam filter got 71 emails; however 22 got through and were caught by the Outlook 2007.

Using only Gmail as my spam filter, 115 emails were snagged, but 23 got through and were caught by the Outlook 2007 spam engine.

I am going to do this for a week and see what it averages out to be and then make a determination on which direction to go.