BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I drove to a Pow Wow in Kentucky today, just now returning. The gathering was held at the Trail of Tears park, and if you don’t know the story about the Trail of Tears, I’ll be covering it later and providing some photos. In addition to all of the tribal […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The new group weblog Open Source Politics had its first week, and one can’t help but applaud the quality of much of the writing that’s come out of this effort. Of course, I know two of the people contributing, Mike Golby and Loren Webster, and have enjoyed their writing for some time so this isn’t […]
Probably my last entry in this recent series of Weblog/Email Spammers: Evil thereof. I only write this entry because some of you have implemented my little comment hack, and have most likely found it’s not working with our friend, vig-rx. My latest hit from this particular fiend was based on a Google search for the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sometimes I think we technical folk are too clever for our own good. The more gimcracks we put into out tools, the more gimcracky things crawl through. We tweak just to tweak, and add far more moving parts to applications than are needed, or even desired. In addition to making […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The vig-rx blog virus, otherwise known as comment spammer, is using Google against us. After stealing another IP address, as expected. Weblogs being targeted are being found through a Google search. Example is here. Aren’t open web services a wonderful thing? Go ahead – all open comment MT weblogs on this […]