Another year has passed for WordPress. This birthday comes just in time for the fantastic announcement from Matt about the future of Automattic and WordPress.

WordPress goes from strength to strength each year, and it has come an incredible distance since the beginning. Matt and the team at Automattic really do a fantastic job.

Many happy returns!

Happy Birthday To You!

Lots of love,
Mike, Jan, and Jamie
xoxox

I would like to wish you all a “Merry Christmas”, “Happy Kwanzaa”, “Happy Hanukkah”, “Yule Blessings”, or just plain old “Seasons Greetings” whatever you may celebrate at this time of year.

All the best.

I noticed a few days ago that Akismet had caught more than 1 million spam comments on this blog. That’s an incredible amount. I didn’t think more about it until I spotted that Darren Rowse blogged about “The Blog Tool that Has Saved Me Months of Work” referring to Akismet having caught 2 million spam comments for him. He calculates that it has saved him over 46 days of moderation time.

Wow! That means it must have saved me 23 days effort, using his calculations. If I include the 200,000 or so it has caught on the other blogs I manage, it’s an awesome amount of time saved.

I have to agree that Akismet is a fantastic tool, and second his comment to encourage you to pay for Akismet if you are getting a great service out of it.