If you haven’t been back in a while, you may have to create a new account. A spammer’s automation went berzerk and created hundreds of fake logins in an attempt to create comment spam. Because I use WP-SpamFree, comment spam is blocked, but the spammer’s automation was too stupid to figure that out and it just kept creating one account after another. To prevent this in future, I added WP-reCaptcha so that account creation ostensibly will require a human being to get past the reCaptcha protection. Unfortunately, I had to clean out the list of users and I’m afraid there wasn’t any way to tell for certain which accounts were real and which were fake so I reset the user database.
Logins are not required to read the blog, yet. Pretty soon, a login will be required in order to read full articles and those who have logins won’t see external advertising, though I will still advertise any seminars and training events I’m providing.
Updated spam filters, in Spanish! Added ReCaptcha to WordPress. Now, some cleanup. Looks like folks will probably have to re-register.
MAGICAL JELLY BEAN KEYFINDER
FROM: Magical Jelly Bean Software
(http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/)
PRICE: FREE
SUPPORTED OS: SEE BELOW
RECOMMENDATION: Highly Recommended
Sometimes you have to recover the key to your Microsoft Windows OS, or your Windows Office install, or Photoshop etc. The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder extracts license keys for you. Even when you don’t, it’s a good idea to run this software, save the keys to a file, print the file and store it with your installation CD’s, just in case.
Jelly Bean will extract, from the registry:
Jelly Bean is free (as in free beer) and is open source and I highly recommend you download it, extract your keys to a file, print the file and store it somewhere safe with your installation CD’s, just in case.
I know, I know, I’ve warned you twice. But its that important.