Archives for December 2004
Damn spammers
Well, I’ve temporarily turned off the comments module due to fucking spammers. Looks like the other day I was hit by some online casino, which posted lots of “comment spam”. This is a new form of spam which has come about due to the increase in popularity with blogs nowadays. Until I can figure out a way to prevent A) that particular spammer from hitting me again, or B) all spammers from posting, no one will be able to post comments.
Damn spammers; they ruin it for everyone.
Rather humorous
Ran accross this while googling for clonch: blogshares. Here you can buy/sell weblog shares in a fantasy stock market for weblogs. Of course, everything is governed by the BSEC, that is the Blog Securities and Exchange Commision!
[EDIT]: fixed my missing verb in the second sentence. 
Mozilla’s Thunderbird
Discovered Mozilla’s Thunderbird this weekend. I really, quite enjoy it, if an email client can be enjoyed. I have a fairly exotic email situation where I have multiple accounts. Not to exotic about that, right? Well I wanted to be able to receive email to its own “.pst” file (thereby showing up in the root listing of my mail folders) and send from multiple smtp servers. This would allow me to send email using each account using their SMTP server, thereby keeping the reply-to addresses correct. In Outlook, the closest I could come to this involved profiles, which works, except you can only have one instance of Outlook open at a time. For me, it is easier to leave my email client open all the time. Then I simply have to log in to check my mail. I’m bad about not checking my mail, so I need all the help I can get; people can attest to this!