I’ve been reading the Chronicles of Narnia, and just got to the end of the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (please excuse me…I never retained the information on how to properly mark book titles/etc). For those of you unfamiliar, or just a time away, this is the one where, at the end, Aslan essentially goes [...]
I had an epiphany about my mental makeup the other day that startled me – but in retrospect it’s not all that amazing. I was at the gym, thinking about certain muscles and how much they’d improved over time, noticing ones that I’d never seen before (which is always a nifty experience) and realized how [...]
Okay…so it was bad enough when they changed french fries and french toast. I was pretty upset when they started pouring good french wine in the sewers and throwing out french cheese and foodstuffs (not only because of the small-mindedness of it all, but because it’s incredibly stupid that they paid good money to the [...]
There’s an excellent speech (although it was never given, just written) called What You’ll Wish You’d Known, by Paul Graham, essayist and programmer/computer guy, over on his website. As a full fledged “adult” these days, I can honestly say that I wish I’d thought like that when I was in high school. I might be [...]
So I started blacklisting the IPs that all my comment spam was coming from at the firewall itself. Then I blocked Yahoo’s robots and spiders. Mostly because they were constantly hitting my site, every day, every half hour, and ignoring my robots.txt file. I got sick of it, and I’ve gotten maybe two yahoo hits [...]
