One of my favourite ski races was the Kawartha Ski Tour. It wasn’t an official part of the race calendar, but it was the longest race available that weekend, the weekend before the Canadian Ski Marathon, so it looked to me to be a perfect tune-up for the CSM.
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Author: Paul Tomblin
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.
Welcome to my world
Quote from:
EE Times – The trouble with Rover is revealed
“The irony of it was that the operating system was doing exactly what we’d told it to do,” Klemm lamented.
Gee, do much debugging there, Klemm? That’s a daily “irony” when developing software.
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.