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Comment spam

By NL on 07/01/2007. 1 Comment

Apologies if you have had problems accessing the site. There is a torrent of comment spam posting going on and it is hitting my server heavily at the moment. None of it gets through, as I use Askimet for WordPress, but each attempted spam comment means a server hit and they are coming in batches of 100 in a couple of seconds. I can’t stop it by blocking IP addresses as each comes from a different IP, so it is a botnet at work.

Please, people, if you must use Windows, make sure it is as secure as it can be. Otherwise someone is likely using your PC and has … Read the full post

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Law Search now Beta 0.1

By NL on 30/12/2006. 0 Comments

It is an ongoing process, but I think Law Search has reached Beta status, just, and has thus been promoted to the sidebar.

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The custom specialist search, via Google co-op, prioritises results from listed sites, but includes general search results. The listed sites aim to cover freely available resources for statute, case law, commentary, reports, blogs and other resources for UK, particularly English, law. Subscription based and limited access sites are not included.

My grateful thanks go to Delia Venables for collating resources and most particularly to Nick Holmes of Binary Law and Infolaw for advice and assistance beyond the call of duty.

Nick Holmes has set up specialist custom … Read the full post

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Botox and peel.

By NL on 17/12/2006. 0 Comments

I have had a bit of a re-design. I think the look is better and hopefully easier to use.

It took me a bit further into the bowels of WordPress than I was planning, but it seems to be running fairly well. Any problems, please let me know.… Read the full post

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Vanity Fair (somewhere in the 1st terrace of hell).

By NL on 04/12/2006. 0 Comments

Nearly Legal made the blawgreview 86.

I am Becky Sharpe, albeit a Becky with a trumpet of her very own. (I do realise possession of a trumpet with intent to play equates less to social climbing minx and more to nuisance neighbour.)

Still, as someone who has used and abused Dante allegories all too often in the past, may I say ‘Oh well played sir’ to Colin Samuels, although surely both the pride and avarice terraces could have been more thickly populated…… Read the full post

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Law Search

By NL on 03/12/2006. 0 Comments

I’ve been toying with the idea for while, since I discovered Google Co-op. Why not a search engine dedicated to legal resources/information/commentary, bringing together the scattered information and comment that is already out there?

So, with a small parp of the trumpets, here is an alpha version. It is also accessible via the ‘Law search’ tab at the top of the page. Note that this search only covers freely accessible sites. Closed commercial sites will not show up.

There are over [edit] 90 sites in the list so far (and much thanks to Delia Venables for the superb work in collating and organising resources). But although I’m adding … Read the full post

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Left at the altar.

By NL on 02/12/2006. 0 Comments

As Nick Holmes and Family Lore have noted, the Times Law blog appears to have unceremoniously vanished, 404ing without even so much as a goodbye. I hope that something new is planned, although in retrospect the difference between the blog and the Times law online pages was never entirely clear – was the blog for news, gossip, insider views, comment, polemics or what?

I was once asked if I’d like to send some trial contributions to the Law blog. I assume many people were (although the contributors list remained noticably the same). This did give me a head scratching moment or two trying to work out what a Times law … Read the full post

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Over sensitive

By NL on 09/11/2006. 0 Comments

Apologies to anyone who isn’t a comment spammer and found themselves blocked from the blog. I was trying out ‘Bad Behaviour’, which promised to block suspicious activity. It did. It also blocked me.

It turned out that a zealous spam IP blacklist that the plug-in used had listed my then adsl dynamic IP address. I had presumably just inherited the address from some poor mug with a home PC that is part of some romanian controlled botnet pumping out spam.

Please people, if you must use a Windows machine, take all necessary precautions. My spam load has recently shot through the roof. Apparently an estimated 4.8 million Windows PCs worldwide … Read the full post

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