Wilhelm Scream
Tried cutting out the Wilhelm Scream from the original scene in Distant Drums (1951). I don't really know how to remove the noise as yet without degrading the quality of the scream too much, do let me know if you have a better (noise removed) version! I'll post it up with credits if it's good, heh.
For now, I have a new SMS ringtone... 
Here's the link to the file: original_wilhelm_scream_raw
Blocking spam with WP-SpamFree
WP-SpamFree is the plugin that I use for automatic filtering of spam.
So far there's only like 5 spams that went past out of the 1000+ filtered ones, which is a 0.5% false negative rate. Pretty good I'd say. Of course a 0.5% false negative rate's not good for sites that get thousands of comments per day, but I'm pretty sure it would suit the needs of most WP installations out there 
Fun with Splunk: SSHD
Thought I'd share a bit on the tip of the iceberg, on what can be done with Splunk. Linux command line tools are still much needed for raw log analysis (since we can't have the luxury of having a Splunk installation around and ready whenever we need it), but if setup and running properly, Splunk can be pretty helpful (and not to mention faster) for some things.
(This post is pretty unpolished, partly because I can't be bothered to fiddle around with fitting the search strings into the width of the post, etc. Nonetheless, comments/discussions are always welcome heh)
One of my favourite tasks with log analysis is to get information on those people/bots which are brute forcing SSHD, so let's start with SSH attacks as an example.