Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Ouch
Anyone here who’s ever hit their shin in the same place three times in one day on a file cabinet raise your hand.
*raises hand*
*looks around*
*slowly puts hand back in lap*
Uhh… yeah, me either. But I’ve heard it hurts like a bitch! And that it takes weeks for the bruise to go away. So I’ve heard.
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
What's that smell?
In the last few days, a strange smell has started to emanate from inside my car. I can’t figure out what it is. Unfortunately it’s not strange as in odd, like “Why does it smell like hot dogs in here?” It smells more like something is starting to decay in there, like turning moldy or something. At first I thought maybe it was my gym bag. Yeah, ew, I know. But when I opened my trunk, it smelled really clean in there, not like a locker room at all. So it has to be something in the cab of the car.
The car is only 7 years old, so it shouldn’t be acquiring that “old car smell” just yet, especially not so suddenly. Someone must have dropped something in there. This morning I checked under all the seats and didn’t find anything that shouldn’t be there. I don’t eat in the car, so it must have been someone else, right? (Yeah, keep telling yourself that.) Hmm…
Maybe I need to pull all the sunshades and things out from under the seats and make absolutely sure there’s nothing carbon-based decaying in there. We did haul some potluck stuff over the holidays to someone’s house. It’s possible some food escaped. Yuck, I just hope I find it before the smell becomes really foul.
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Comment spammers please curl up and die
Am I being harsh? I mean, they’re just trying to make a living too, right? Well so are theives and dictators. Doesn’t make it right though. In the last few months, I’d guess about 80% of the comments I’ve been receiving are from fucking spammers listing their stupid links to sites nobody cares about. I can block all the IP addresses I want, they just change IPs and go right on spamming.
I can’t really tell if it’s automated or not. It’s usually one or two here and there, but sometimes there will be 5 or more at a time. It’s weird. Isn’t the word verification thing supposed to eliminate the automated spammers? I even added on random numbers, not that it changed anything. I still get comment spam, and it’s very irritating. I’m guessing they actually hire flunkies now to manually enter these spam comments. I think I’ll call them “spamments”. If the phrase catches on, please remember that I coined the term and send me money, thanks. (And if the phrase already exists, please ignore me. But feel free to send money anyway, heh.) I need to do a little research and figure out how to put up a tougher wall, or else I might have to require memberships to comment. I wouldn’t mind feeling all exclusive and important and stuff, but that’s just deluding myself. The most likely outcome would be people start thinking, “What? I have to register and log in to comment? Forget it. It’s not that important. See ya.” And there goes my little bitty fan base. Ha. Haha. Fan base. Like I’m a celebrity. Yes please kiss the ring and swear your allegience! No wait that’s being a queen. Nevermind. If you think of ways to make spammers eat shit or at least leave my blog alone, please do share your thoughts. Thanks!
Update: After some initial research, I’ve discovered that the goal of these annoying spamments isn’t to advertise to bloggers or blog readers, but to increase their rank on search engines. For example, a Google bot might find a post of mine and scan its contents, including comments. Any links also get indexed, and the more links you have going to your site, the better your rank in the search engine. Sneaky. So my first step in squashing spamments is to remove automatic linking in comments. Expression Engine (the thing I use to run my blog) has a toggle setting for automatically turning URLs into links. I’m going to turn that off. I’m also going to see if I can prevent links altogether. People can still post URLs, so if anyone is really interested they can copy and paste it into a browser. But a search engine bot won’t be able to follow that anywhere. I think it’s a step in the right direction.
Another update: I’ve turned off HTML in comments altogether. So it sucks you can no longer bold or strike-out anything, but you can’t create links either. We’ll see if that works to deter spammers.
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