Akismet has caught 5,742 spam for you since you first installed it.

Akismet has done a great job catching spam on my website. I usually check Akismet once a week or so, and in the past there has been around a hundred, but now every time I check I’m getting upwards to 500 or 600, and obviously I don’t have the time to sit here and look at all the comments linking to pharmaceutical products, real-estate ads, and others…well…you probably know anyway since spam affects most people who use an email address.

Point is, I don’t really have the patience to fish out your 1 post that went into the spam out of 500 spam messages, so if you don’t see your post up here after a week or so, please repost it, and send me an email.

I’m thinking perhaps installing a CAPTCHA image or maybe a simple “mathematical skill testing question” (perhaps both?) to reduce the amount of spam that actually gets into the Akismet spam-box. Don’t worry, the skill-testing question won’t require university-level calculus so you kids out there don’t panic

I was just looking at Shaw’s website earlier and found out that Shaw unveiled a new high speed internet option Shaw High-Speed Nitro Internet (now they have 4) some time late last year. It costs about $100 per month, and you get 25 Mbps down, 1Mbps up, 150GB of monthly bandwidth.

Are we gaining on the Swedish?

It feels like September again, except I know where the buildings are.  Time to memorize a new timetable and remember not to follow the old timetable.  Can’t say much about the courses yet, after attending only the first class.
New Year’s Resolution: Sleep earlier, wake up earlier.

I cross-post my blog on Xanga and now also on Facebook because everybody seems to be addicted to it now :P.  I wonder what will be next…hopefully not MySpace.

Dennis has completed his computer science final exam (last Thursday), chemistry final exam (yesterday), and English final exam (today).

Dennis is currently studying for his math final exam (tomorrow) and his biology final exam (next Monday).

Dennis just realized he’s more than half way done final exams.  Yay!

Dennis goes back to study.

When I first read one of the recent e-Strategy Updates at UBC with the title starting with “A Better Vista…” I thought it was announcing the computer’s operating system upgrade to Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows Vista. But instead something, much more useful than Windows Vista, was to be upgraded: WebCT (the “learning management system” at UBC). In this term, three (and a half) of my classes had a WebCT homepage, and I found it very useful to be able to get lecture outlines, practice exams, post on the bulletin board, and other helpful material, but there was only one problem:

That yellow box saying “Performance May be Slower Due to Higher Usage” showed up regularly during the evening hours when everyone is on trying to get on there to do one thing or another. During the daytime during these final exams days, this message is almost constantly there (or on “Normal usage,” but never saying “Low usage” unless you go on at 3am in the morning)
Hopefully this WebCT Vista will be much more powerful than the existing WebCT and will be able to handle almost a thousand of us users at one time, so it won’t take a minute to load each page anymore.