Blogging Oddities
Although I haven't been as active in my blog as much as I wanted to, no thanks to Plurk, I do check my blog and find out if there are any new comments awaiting moderation. I'm also currently developing a new theme for my blog, one which I will not be releasing publicly, yet, and I'm planning on deploying it by the end of the month. It's almost done, but it would still need some testing to see if there are any bugs that pop-up after deployment. For now, it's still under development but it is very close to being deployed. One of the main hang-ups of this new theme is the name. I still haven't decided on what name I will dub this theme. Suggestions are welcome, and highly appreciated no matter how juvenile or mundane it may be.
As for comments awaiting moderation, there were quite a few that made me doubt the intention of the commenter. One of the comments that are currently awaiting moderation, one that I don't think I'll approve is shown in the picture below.
It seems to be a valid comment. Desperate, maybe, but still worthy of approval. What made me think twice of approving the comment is that the entry the comment was added to was published years ago. The comment may be related to the entry, but paranoia bells started ringing when I think about comment spammers and their methods, however desperate it may seem, that this may be one of those unorthodox methods that might be implemented by them blog defilers.
What my paranoia senses were telling me was that this commenter, bot or not, is trying to get their email address approved, so that when they add comment spam, it gets automatically approved. It makes sense. At least, for me. Leaving out the paranoia, the commenter may simply be bored out of their wits and is trying to reach out to get someone touch them, literally or figuratively speaking.
And another blogging oddity that I noticed concerns WordPress. It's really not a big deal because it's not happening anymore, but when I refreshed the admin page, it was prompting me that there's a new version available and that I should upgrade my installation. I would have done what it was suggesting, but what it was prompting me to do was to upgrade to the version that I already have. See the screenshot below.
Weird.