Take that you bastards!

The comment spammers have been having a field day with Maddy’s blog and her memorial. Dammit, I know spammers are the lowest form of life, but spamming the dead is beyond the pale.

Anyway, I just finished installing MT-Blacklist, a plugin that should stop a lot of the more egregious comment spam. I installed it and ran the “scan the list 25 comments” mode, and it found two comment spams. Then I tried posting a spam with a url containing a couple of spammish words in it, and it refused to allow it. So I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

Backup Solutions

Not much blogging lately – I’m sick, and it sucks. This is the third weekend in a row when I’ve been under the influence of this stupid thing. I don’t know why, but I never get quick colds any more – they always last for weeks and weeks, and the cough always turns nastier and nastier.

Anyway, I was discussing backing up computers with some friends, and I decided to try something new. I’ve always been more than a little paranoid, mostly because I’ve had a string of really bad luck with hard drives.
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Returned Mail

I just had a check returned as “undeliverable”. It was addressed to the EAA (Experiment Aircraft Association) at a post office box in Oshkosh Wisconson. You’d think that in a town with a population of 62,916 (I looked it up), SOMEBODY in the post office would have heard of the organization that operates the fly-in that attacts 700,000 visitors to the city every year and know how to get mail to them. Sheesh.