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2006-10-30

As this blog reaches another milestone (this is the 200th post), I get the feeling I’ve written far more than I set out to. So I thought I’d round up some statistics:

200 posts - approximately 1.6/day since 25th June.
246 comments - approximately 1.96/day, and an average of 1.23/article.
2,958 spam comments caught by Akismet - approximately 167/week - although this is nowhere near my personal email, which hovers more around the frightening figure of** 4,000/week** - I love SpamAssassin.
Maximum number of comments for any one post is 15, minimum 0 (unsurprisingly).
28 post categories.
Customer Service, SOA & ESB, and Technology are the three categories that have recieved the most interest, according to the Popularity Contest plugin. Maths is apparently the least interesting. Even such a tawdry category as Sex has managed a respectable 13th place, although apparently there is more commonality between the two than you might think anyway.
Ranked 131,144th on Technorati, with 85 links from 19 blogs.
Random photo on sidebar selects from 1,135 images.
My favourite post is Why Trade is Beneficial - The Ebay Way.

Comments

[...] As I’ve mentioned before, I have a huge spam problem on my personal e-mail account (~4,000/week) - due to a combination of bad luck and some foolish naivety at a few points - and so I have a fairly highly-tuned SpamAssassin installation running at home, with plenty of custom rules and plugins. I’ve seen a rising amount of image spam on it, so I decided to give FuzzyOcr, a plugin for SpamAssassin, a try. So far, the results are pretty impressive. FuzzyOcr uses the open-source gocr program as the engine, and ties it to with SpamAssassin and some logic. The OCR is fairly CPU-intensive, so unlike most SpamAssassin plugins, it only kicks in if the message is otherwise going to be below a certain scoring threshold. So far it has roughly halved the volume of spam that slips through into my inbox (previously ~40-50/day), which is a welcome improvement. [...]

— Andrew Ferrier’s Blog » Blog Archive » Spam and OCR 2006-11-10 14:13