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Spam Free!

By Jomz on October 23, 2020


I am loving Akismet Anti-spam plug-in. It helped me clean up more than 8,000 spam comments on my site. It took me three to four days waiting for it to scan all the comments and tag them up as spam. It would have taken me months if I did that manually!

It only took me three to four days because you have to actively press the button and wait for the scan to complete. There were times where the scanning would stop, I would then have to refresh the page and re-scan.

Now, the spam comments are at a manageable size of 24.

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Updated Some Things

By Jomz on October 21, 2020

Photo by cottonbro from Pexels

I have not touched this site in a while… The aspect ratio and size of the design does not suit large monitors, nor is it mobile screen friendly.

Anyway, I have updated my About section. I mean this site is supposed to be a portfolio page, right? The blog section is just an added bonus, a notebook of sorts.

I am also reminded that I have thousands of spam comments to clean. I will also be locking this post’s comments so I don’t end up adding more spam to my site.

So, yeah, doing some site maintenance.

Thanks for reading, and I appreciate your visit!

See you around!

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Buried in Spam

By Jomz on August 31, 2018

Spam, spam, spamity spam!

Hello everyone.  I haven’t been on my own site in years! Goodness. Talk about neglect, eh?

I guess I have been distracted by a lot of other stuff.

Unfortunately, I seem to have left the door of my comments open, and now, am left with years worth of SPAM comments. I have comments in the thousands now! It would have been a very wonderful feeling if those were real comments. But nope. The senseless text and links leading to wherever means they’re definitely spam.

Before I can make my site functional again, I have to get to clearing up these useless comments.

Well, see you around!

 

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Like getting my crutches broken

By Jomz on June 27, 2012

I’m an artist.  I like to express myself through visual art. I like to draw and sketch and those related stuff.

However, as time went by and responsibility piled up, my time to be able to sit down quietly and draw for hours disappeared.  It’s frustrating.

Thankfully, digital photography came in.

I was revitalized.  I started to view the world differently – what would be a good framing for a photograph, what subject would be nice – I even learned how to guide a model to pose.

Unfortunately, the long-time family camera which has served us for years broken down a few days ago.  It deletes everything in the memory card if you let it run idle.

What’s even more frustrating is that a new camera is not in my budget for this year. I’m really feeling frustrated about it.

Darn it all.

Sorry about the rant.

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Facebook Photo Uploading Problem

By Jomz on May 30, 2012

Early this week I took a bunch of photos with 8-mega pixel resolution, processed them and after tweaking the colors and stuff, uploaded them to my facebook page, Mauru’s Realm.

I haven’t uploaded any image there in a while, so you can imagine my excitement, and succeeding frustration when I found out that the upload process got stuck at around 90%.

Now, I tried to troubleshoot the problem.  At first, I thought that my attempt of uploading six (6) images at a time could be the problem… so I cut it down to just one image. Still, the same result.

I refreshed the page, tried to upload and again get the same result.

I figured that perhaps uploading the 8megapixel image is overkill, so I trimmed it down to around 75pixels.  The size was smaller, so you can conclude that it will work now, right?

Wrong.

I still got the same result.

Frustrated, I went for the basic uploader and uploaded the four images. It worked.  The only problem with this one was that I could not post the uploaded images to the wall. A minor setback… but at least I got a few images in.

Later that night, when my broadband speed seemed faster, I tried re-uploading one image, and after waiting for a verrrryyy long time, I managed to upload just one. The rest – which I uploaded one at a time,didn’t process…

I couldn’t really understand the cause for the photo uploading error, so I’m guessing it could be a combination of too large file size, slow internet and probably some problem on facebook’s server. I mean, I was able to upload them to photobucket with no problem…

Oh, well… I hope you get to check out my new uploads. See you around.

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That was one exhausting arc

By Jomz on March 20, 2012

Generally, I’m not very bothered by filler arcs. It’s not a bad way of seeing more of the characters, right? So what if it diverts away from canon?

Well… This particular arc in One Piece really drove my patience insane.

There was nothing more for me to want that for the filler to end and for them to continue with the next story…

But… I resisted the urge to skip, and still pushed forward.

Thank goodness it’s over…

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Use it or lose it

By Jomz on October 25, 2011

Image taken from Google Search

I haven’t designed a decent web page in a while, and although I can still whip up a few good designs, I have gotten rusty on the coding that is needed to make it work.

I used to design a page using tables and images, however, the standards on web design require the use of Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS.

Frankly, I wasn’t very good at it for layouts.  I used to create CSS codes with cheat sheets. I couldn’t type up a decent page without the needed elemental codes.  Well, looking back on it, isn’t that how we learn?

Anyway, the most that I could go with CSS was to give hyperlinks those nifty hover effects, or at least modify font colors.

Imagine my hardship from shifting my perspective from table layouts to one that uses CSS.  It was a lot of hard work.

A year ago, I was able to modify/create the theme that I am using for the website with the wordpress system.  It was hell, and a ton of trial and error.

I barely did anything to the CSS because there were a lot of declared definitions that I could barely understood where it went.  I did a ton of nitpicking…

Anyway, I managed to practice a CSS-designed page today, and my earlier frustration at not getting what I wanted was somehow forgotten when I got a desirable result.  Though it ain’t perfect, at least I’m practicing my skill.

Use it or lose it, so they say.

See you around.

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