Every now and then I find a great bit of software to save me some time and trouble around the office, and this one certainly fits that description, although it's nothing new. I've been using WebDAV for several years now, and today I was reminded just how helpful it is. It certainly beats posting web content by FTP hands-down.
Well, looks like lots of people are talking about the blind content on the WordPress site (the blogging software I use). Poor Matt (the figurehead of WordPress) is getting crucified by the general public for taking advantage of the WordPress website's high page ranking to run some unseen ad content. Sure, he needs to make money and keep the development of the software, but I'd rather see legitimate ads or links at the bottom of the page than blind content masked by stylesheet tricks so the page looks different to search engines than it does to us normies. As for hosting GPL'd software projects? Come on, go get a SourceForge project set up. I'm sure they can handle whatever you throw at them.
So my opinion (if anyone cares) is what he did was okay (it's his website, after all), but the method he used was not cool. We're used to seeing ads, and will certainly tolerate them to help support free projects. Don't try to be sneaky, because when you get caught, you'll really regret it.
Go check out this Atomic Wristwatch, bet you can't wait to get yours!
Today's Coeur d'Alene Press has our wedding announcement in it, go pick up your copy!
PS. The big day is five weeks from today.
Well, it's tough working when you've got a cold, but it's also hard knowing that in five weeks I'll be gone for over three, so I have a lot of things to get in order at the office and can't afford the luxury of taking sick days right now. But I'm getting better, I'm certainly through the worst of this cold now.
Why is it when I get sick I keep working, and take days off when I'm not sick? I guess maybe I want to save my days off for "well days" instead of "sick days", as in "I'm feeling too well to go to work today".
I've been down all weekend with a nasty cold. I slept most of the day yesterday and still feel like crap. I'm at work today, though, trying to get a few things done that need doing. Thank goodness for DayQuil.
Well I haven't posted much recently on the racquetball thing, because I wasn't playing much. Lorien and I have started playing three times per week, and her dad (so far) has played with us. The games are, as you could imagine if you know her dad, very competitive.
Today I had a lot of fun re-engineering a laptop case we bought about a year and a half ago. Some shipping monkeys dragged the box when the wheels got stuck, and instead of stopping just continued to pull the case, so the wheels ground down on one side. Now when you try to take it anywhere it clunk-clunk-clunk's really bad and is difficult to pull.
Unfortunately, the company we got the case from riveted the wheels in, so I had to drill them out and remove the wheels (they were rollerblade wheels). I replaced them with die-cast steel wheels I bought at Home Depot. I needed to get a few more parts, washers, etc to get everything to fit back in right, but when it was done, it rolled real nice. And these wheels aren't going to grind down. If anything, they're going to grind up someone else's floor. But if they're not going to take care of our case, why shouldn't we make it as strong as possible?
We want to let you know that we've started Wedding Registries at Target and Amazon.
Tonight we're going out tux shopping. Lorien's mom is coming up for the weekend so we can make more plans. The countdown? It's 43 days left!
Well, for continually posting to my site, I now get to badmouth theirs. I have two of the top five links at Google if you search for mthmarketing, including number one. A few words about them? They suck.
This is how bad it's getting:
On March 19th, I had 203 POST attempts from mthmarketing.com (see the log)
On March 20th, I had 402 more POST attempts (see the log)
And on March 21st, I had 409 more POSTattempts (see the log)
I've had over 200 so far today, but they're all getting 403'd now (403 is Forbidden).
If you'd like to know how to stop mthmarketing from spamming your blog with comments, check out my new article about Stopping Blog Comment Spam.
In Conclusion
It's my opinion that nobody should do business with a company that puts their business profits over moral issues. What they do is wrong. If you are considering business with them, I strongly urge you to weigh how they get their results, and whether you really want your good name associated with them.
But don't just listen to me, search for them yourself. I'm not the only one that has noticed this problem. Let me help with the first one:
Uncommonplace - Blog.
Well, I noticed that all of a sudden, I'm logging quite a few 403 HTTP response codes (that's Forbidden, if you didn't know). Where are they coming from?, I asked myself. Peeking into my log files, I found that, sure enough, those evil mthmarketing chumps have been trying to post comment spam on my blog.
I stopped caring who loses access to this blog, if I get comment spam I ban the entire network their ISP belongs to by CIDR (this CIDR and not that CIDR).
For anyone else that's fed up with spam comments in their blog, go see my new article about How to stop blog comment spam.
As promised, here they are:
After 28 hours:
and after about 65 hours:
Well, it's been getting worse, and I don't think it's even fully formed yet. Tomorrow I'll post a couple pictures of the progression, it's morbidly interesting to see a bruise develop.