wp-openid doesn’t work with Wordpress 2.5
Christian Decker wrote this mid-afternoon:
Apparently the OpenID plugin for Wordpress is incompatible with version 2.5 of Wordpress. As much as I like OpenID I’m forced to disable it until there is a compatible version. I’m sorry for all my readers and commenters that use OpenID on this blog and I’m looking forward to when I’ll reactivate it 
Akismet back, full throttle
Christian Decker wrote this in the wee hours:
After ranting against Akismet some days ago, and receiving many suggestions about how to solve the problem, I got the spam under control (at least I hope so…). The trick was to use the standard option in Wordpress to blacklist some words. So I drew up a short list of words that kept popping up in the spam comments and, voila, suddenly I have clean comments again. Thanks to everybody suggesting how to get rid of the spam, I might write a small post in the future about all these solutions as there are quite a few interesting among them 
