Vlad

Ok, so you buy your stuff on the Internet. And get it delivered to you via a courier service. Or you’re using one for work-related shipments. Or some friend just sent you a package. How do you know where it is and how long it will take until it’s delivered? Well, you go the courier’s site, enter the shipment reference number, or AWB, or whatever… and you see it’s track log. Simple, right?

Not quite… First you have to figure out the courier’s site (that’s generally easy). Then you have to find where is the packing tracking section (yes, there are still big couriers that don’t have it on the first page). But you manage through all this only  to find out you have to do it all over again each time you need to check the same package.

No more! Really!!!

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Over the last days a couple of new versions for the Akismet Worpress plugin were released. And they (silently) bring a new feature: your very own Akismet Stats page, located under the Dashboard main tab:

So far you can get:

• an overview of spam/ham/accuracy, with monthly sum-ups
• graphs showing spam/ham/missed spam/false positives in time
• a “yummy pie” comparing spam and ham
• a apology for vegetarians
  

  What the heck is ham doing on my blog? I’m a vegetarian.[...]

  Also, we’re sorry about the vegetarian thing.

Nice!
One more thing (which they omitted): you can check out the stats page manually by replacing api_key and blog_url in the following url with the proper values:

http://api_key.web.akismet.com/1.0/user-stats.php?blog=blog_url

(just make sure you keep your API key secret!).

SVN logs show it’s Matt who’s been pushing the update. It must be the cakes!

Lion Rampant, originally uploaded by bitsofreality.

As featured on the Royal Standard of Scotland.

So, you think Earth is big? Big-ish?

Think again! This series of illustrations put things (planets & stars) into perspective. There are stellar bodies out there that make our planet look like a mere dust speckle. And just look what kind of measurement units they had to invent for these:

Maya, originally uploaded by bitsofreality.

A cute Samoyed!