Posts Tagged ‘Administrative’

The Bots Are Getting Smarter. (And Leon is Getting LARGER!)

Sunday, November 21st, 2010

(Sigh) I may have mentioned that I have to clear out a fair amount of comments spam that Akismet catches every day.

Well, whoever programs bot seemed to have figured out at least that this is a political blog, as I’ve been getting a lot of generic anti-Charlie Rangel comments on threads that have nothing to do with Charlie Rangel. Close, but no cigar bot guys. (Or, to put it in your own bot language, “Your cigar with excellent closeness you fail to reach.”)

But I can see a day when bot spam may start to mimic at least a semi-competent troll. As usual, there’s an XKCD for that:

Real Life Temporarily Defeats Blogging

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

I’m dealing with some renovation issues on my house, so expect pretty light blogging for the immediate future…

Regular Blogging Will Resume Shortly

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Sorry for the sparse blogging as of late, but I’ve been dealing with two problems (fleas and a leaking window) that, while minor in the overall scheme of things, still needed fairly immediate and time-consuming remediation.

Expect more regular blogging to resume shortly.

Light Blogging

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

I have an ongoing, intermittent problem with my home TimeWarner account that’s been eating up much of my time, so my blogging time has been quite curtailed. Hopefully I’ll be able to get back up to speed this week…