Site Information: November 2004 Archives
So lots of people have noticed that the ad space on the right is available for a low, low price, and if you sign up now I'll contribute my share of the loot to the Friends of Iraq blogger challenge. If you don't want to buy an ad but still want to donate to a worthy cause, go here. If you're a blogger and want to participate, join Team Bear Flag. My only mission in life is to beat Hugh Hewitt and his dastardly Northern Alliance, so drop the kids out of college and give generously.
Apparently now only the spammers can comment on my site. Fantastic. I disabled comments by invalidating a few fields, but the spammers are somehow accessing the databases more directly and bypassing the security code altogether. This makes me sad.
You screw up my site,
While my readers pour out tears.
I hate you, spammer.
Thanks for the offer,
But I don't play 'net poker --
Poke your eyes instead.
Oh comment spammer:
Your wee-wee is so tiny,
Use your drug yourself.
Yes, I know the anti-spam comment code is getting absurdly long, but last night I set it to length six and still had to spend an hour this morning deleting spam. One commenter has threatened to stop commenting if I don't reduce the length, but I'm sorry, I just can't deal with all the spam. If I don't get any more ads I'll slowly walk the length back down to what it was, but for now it's ten digits.
I sincerely hope my homeland security measures don't severely encumber your civil liberties. Keep commenting, please! But I had to make a choice, and I decided to tighten things up. Yes, that means that the comment terrorists have already won. Or something.
I'm getting a ton of comment spam all of a sudden... I wonder how it's getting past the security code? Anyway: my apologies. I'm deleting them when I see them, and they shouldn't otherwise affect the site.
Not everyone is familiar with blogosphere etiquette, so I'm saying this with a helpful spirit. It's generally considered quite rude to send trackback pings to a post without actually linking to it. If you want to call my attention to something you've written, just send me an email -- or better yet, link to my post. Don't send me a trackback if you're not willing to link.
