I’ve temporarily disabled the Amazon widgets in the right sidebar since one was automatically redirecting the entire page to Amazon upon load. What the hell, Amazon?
My apologies if anyone ran into this problem.
Posts Tagged ‘Site Administration’
Administrative Note: Amazon Widgets Temporarily Disabled
Wednesday, April 30th, 2014This Day Eaten By Locusts BlueHost
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
BlueHost was down for most of the day, so no blogging.
Expect your normally scheduled political rants to resume on Monday.
Warning: Graphic Content
Saturday, November 10th, 2012I know I’m lazy and all, but I’m beginning to think that I should change the look of this blog off the WordPress default. I’m been putting this off mainly because my skills lie in the realm of words rather than graphics, but I think I’m going to bite the bullet.
I’m going to experiment with a few themes to get started, so don’t be shocked if things look weird every now and then.
Updating the Blogroll
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012For some reason, I feel a lot more braindead than usual after a one hour bike ride, so today seems like an excellent day to perform that long-contemplated update of the blogroll.
Today’s additions:
Finally, please note that Blue Dot Blues has moved.
I Now Have a Twitter Account for BattleSwarm
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012Go to https://twitter.com/#!/BattleSwarmBlog if you want to follow me there. Expect a lot of #txsen posts. I’ll probably also tweet more stuff that’s not worthy of an entire post…
Blogrolling In Our Times
Friday, July 8th, 2011Today Matt S. Dowling named BattleSwarm his blog of the week. Thanks!
This inspired me to finally get up off my lazy ass and add two of the three blogs I’d been thinking about adding to my blogroll anyway:
And the third blog I was thinking about adding, but won’t right now? That would be The Race to Replace Kay Baily Hutchison, a blog focused on the Texas Senate race that I used to check every day for updates…but there hasn’t been one since June 2. I’d be happy to add it if posts start up again, but a month’s silence isn’t getting the job done…
How Not to Post Content Spam
Sunday, October 24th, 2010Like a lot of blogs, BattleSwarm gets a lot of automatically-generated, badly-written content spam, most of which is supposed to flatter you ego without actually addressing anything in the blog post, and many times the posted name attached to the spam is particularly absurd . (Hint: I’m pretty sure no one in the world was born with the name “Forex Robot.”)
But this one trapped in today’s spam filter was particularly incompetent:
“I’ve been browsing around #hostname and actually am astounded by the terrific content material here.”
Well, we here at #hostname attract only the most discerning #spmabots thanks to our truly selective posting of only the finest information on #topicofblogpost…
Random Site Administration Going On
Sunday, January 24th, 2010I’ve updated this page to the latest WordPress theme, and have been futzing with code and moving a few things around to get it working properly, including deleting a few minor posts. Expect a much more substantial post up later this day.
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:
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