State of the Blog
No, I have not forgotten about the blog. In fact, there are some things going on in the background that I have been working on for a while. The roll out of these changes will take place soon, and I am sure my loyal readers (all four of you) will appreciate those changes.
I’m still standing
Yeah, I’m still here. Summer break is over, so it’s time to jump back into things with both feet. What better way to kick things off than with a song of defiance? I’m Still Standing by Elton John You could never know what it’s like Your blood like winter freezes just like ice And there’s a cold [...]
Blog Funkiness
It’s Spring Cleaning™ time here at the blog, which means it’s time to make some changes. As usual, when I start playing around with the blog, on both the front end or the back end, things might start acting a little weird. The weirdness will go away when I eventually figure out what the hell [...]
Blog update
I’ve been working on some of the backend coding to improve the performance of the blog. An area that has received special attention is the spam filtering code. One of the things that has been added is a more effective IP banning script. Previously, banned IPs could still view the blog, but any comments from those [...]
That went well
I decided to spend a little time working on the blog tonight. I was attempting to tighten up the spam filtering to block some asshat in Amsterdam. In the process, I managed to completely disable the entire blog. So much for my scripting expertise.
Attention spammers
When you attempt to spam my blog, keep in mind a few things 1. I don’t care what it is you’re trying to sell. I’m not interested. 2. I will ultimately defeat any measure you use to spam this blog. 3. I work as a system analyst for a webhosting company. If you spam my blog with [...]
Time
Once again, I’m sitting here at work maintaining an eagle-eyed vigilance over the network and preventing ne’er-do-wells from assaulting our sacred network. Okay, okay. I’m sitting here on my ass looking at a bunch of squiggly little lines playing out across five different monitors, but that doesn’t sound quite as dramatic, don’t you think? My [...]
No more Yahoo
Over the last week, I’ve been inundated with spam orginating from Yahoo email addresses. Until further notice, all Yahoo addresses are banned from posting on this blog.
Changes
I’m re-writing a theme for this blog. If the blog starts going crazy, then it’s probably my fault.
Technorati nonsense
A quick glance at the upper right hand corner of the blog shows my participation in Technorati. I wonder about the usefulness of this, especially since, according to Technorati, I haven’t updated my blog in 50 days. Their “update ping” is utterly useless. What good is having a tool around when that tool works about [...]
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