Finally, It’s Friday
This has been a really long week, yet at the same time, I can hardly remember any of it. Odd, no?
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My new worst enemy: human spammers. The world has stooped so low that now spammers are hiring human beings to sit in rooms and manually add spam to web posts. This means the spammer has to fill out a name, email address, website, etc., then post the spam message. By doing it this way, "intelligent" filters don't flag the comment as spam, and it gets passed onto the weblog.
I AM SICK OF CLEANING MY COMMENTS.
So, I'm doing what I never wanted to do: I'm enabling comment moderation. It's really not that big of a deal since most of my post responses are sent via email (people don't like having to enter an email address), but it's still a chore I wish I didn't have to do. If you run a site/blog and you aren't getting human spam, relish in the joys of running a site with low exposure while you can...
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Today is Halloween and I can't stand having my door knocked on while I'm trying to watch TV or play the guitar at night. I think the whole trick or treat thing should happen during daylight hours, then I wouldn't have to worry about door banging at 10:00pm.
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Today is a perfect day to sit behind a drill press and bore holes into aluminum — seriously. I'll be taking lots and lots of pictures this weekend, so here's to hoping the weather holds...
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I ended up changing my setting to only allow members to comment on my blog after deleting about 300 spam comments from mine.
I have not gotten one since.
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Yep, the weather is outstanding. I’m sick of being tied to the desk.