Monthly Archives: November 2009

First Collisions in the LHC

Posted by on November 24, 2009 No comments | 2,669 views

 

CMS data at LHCYesterday a test run of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN produced the first collisions and collision data after 20 years of construction and preparations. They produced collisions in ATLAS, ALICE, CMS and LHCb. The beam was running at injection energy, so no acceleration. Next steps will be to crank up the power. This is looking promising so far, and I hope it all runs well. People were really excited here at the Institute of Physics in Oslo yesterday when they followed the unexpected test run online. Too bad I wasn’t there myself at the time, so I didn’t get to see the live feed.

Full CERN Press Release: press.web.cern.ch

How to stop the damn commentspam!

Posted by on November 18, 2009 No comments | 2,871 views

captchaI got fed up with the comment spam I get on my blog. I googled a bit and found a few solutions, but ended up with a plugin that adds CAPTCHA to the comment form.This little gem can be downloaded from here.

It is fun to observe the spammer-scripts bang their virtual heads against this simple little tool. I can observe all the spam attempts in my website log. :)