Jennlog

Web comment spammers discovered my Honorary Canadian Citizenship Certificate Generator last summer. So I hacked together a little 4-line dictionary-based perl filter and added it to my code to divert these attempts to a file that would list each prevented attempt.

I last rotated that file on August 1, 2006 so as of today, I have exactly one year’s worth of spam attempts (give or take a number of false triggers). The total number of attempts is: 11616.

It’s kind of scary to think about what 11616 webspams looks like across 12 months in comparison to the legitimate traffic I host through that site. I deleted my Movable Type blog in 2003 after only 500 spams and that was just over the top.

I’m convinced that if Google Ad Words didn’t encourage “domainers” to camp on domain names featuring fake portals, there would be no web comment spam trying to drive up the Google “Page Rank” of those fake portals. Google is perpetuating this evil.

It’s another beautiful day in Colorado today. So, I’ve been adding to the Yallery feature set from the comfort of the hammock in my backyard — complete with the Sony Locationfree receiver. If you work on your hammock and prefer a little background “distraction”, I highly recommend the 7″ locationfree tv.

I have a couple of slingboxes, but the client + remote takes up too much screen realestate on even the 17″ powerbook. And, I find it difficult to push the video into the background like a tv or audio from a stereo (or sonos or soundbridge or squeezebox or ipod).

Jenn’s Hammock^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HOffice-mounted Sony Locationfree TV.

I suppose the same coat hanger+elastic rope rigging could also support my 100GB Archos AV700 to play divx video, if it weren’t a useless non-working brick sitting in the closet.