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Well, after what was a great night on Friday, it seems that there is demand for more GeekBBQ’s here in little ‘ol Sunny London, and since there have been requests for a “where do I sign up page”, I’m posting something here until a better idea comes along, or I get the time to set up a domain or something…

So without further ado, the next date is the 23rd of June, same place, same time, same stuff to bring…

You can see the Flickr set from the BBQ on Friday;
You can read the series of posts leading up to the first one…
and for shits and giggles I’ve added another Upcoming.org post as well…

Please comment to this post to RSVP / steak your claim to, er, some good steak… (note the pun

OK, so I’m not a fan of the Akismet approach for one or two reasons, and it seems that although making users log in to comment works as an anti-spam device, it doesn’t encourage random people to comment, and lets face it, that’s half the joy of blogging – you meet loads of people from all over the world, just ‘cos you wrote something.

So I disabled the “you must be logged in to comment” thing, and as soon as I did I started getting comment spam again, like 10 or so an hour. And it pissed me off – my inbox just doesn’t need it, and I don’t want to delete another spam comment ever again if I can help it. Hence the need for another solution…

Along comes Adrian and George, commenting to my post about comment spammers, offering up “did you pass math” as a solution.
So I did some reading here, here and here, and then installed it, and I have to say that the sheer simplicity and gracefulness of it makes me think that there is still hope (for what, you’ll have to decide)… After one or two tweaks of my own, I’m happy as Larry and good to go. Thank you Steven!

My recommendation – try it – you won’t be disappointed.

Soon as I turn off “you have to be logged in to comment” so that anyone can comment, I start getting hit by the spammers! Anyone got any great anti-spam measures (plugins, custom code?) for WP2.0, or do you all just use “you have to be logged in to comment”? I’m not sure that Akismet is possible?, so any other ideas would be cool…