Vicki and I had dinner with Les last night. Les is a fellow pilot who I first got in contact with on the Piper mailng list. It was really great to spend the evening talking politics with somebody who has quite different political views without the rancour, personal attacks and childishness that drove me away from the Piper mailing list. But that’s not what this rant is about.
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Category: Rant
Spammers are more adaptive than viruses…
…and about as pleasant.
Yesterday I noted that the current incarnation of MovableType + MT-Blacklist makes the link in comments into a redirection, probably to reduce the utility of these fields for spammers trying to increase their Google PageRank. So of course what do I find when I wake up this morning? Two comments on very old blog entries with about 5 copies of a spammer’s URL in the body of the text of the comment. Thanks to MT-Blacklist, it only took about five mouse clicks to remove these entries and put the URL they were spamming into my blacklist and check to see if they’d posted any other comments from that IP. Suck on that, spammer.
And the rumour mill goes insane…
This morning one of my cow orkers was escorted off the premises. There are now two guys sitting at his desk going through his computers looking for something. (I hope they know Linux, because that’s all that’s on one of the two computers.)
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Dammit, Dammit, Dammit
Back in February I wrote about my cow orker Rohan, and his taunting me about his SETI@home stats.
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Happiness and Sanity Explode
This morning I had to go do my Kodak mandated “Health, Safety and Environment” (HSE) orientation. Yawn.
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