Web Interest: August 2004 Archives

The incidence of comment span seems to be on the rise. I get so few comments, that am very happy to get notification that a comment has been scribbled on my web page. But happiness gives rise to disappointment, when I discover someone hawking prescription drugs or pr0n. Everyday lately, I have to delete 10-20 spam comments. While it's very easy work to delete the spammy comments with the MT-Blacklist plug-in, it's still an annoyance. I think I'll have to start turning off comments for old entries as a stop gap measure.

Additionally, I notice comments were posting e-mail addresses if no web page was listed. I turned this off and rebuilt all comments. Sorry if this caused any spam for anyone. Feel free to post without fear now.

I have been experimenting with color changes. You may notice some instability.

By all appearances there is an Antarctic blogger. Interesting stuff. [Courtesy of boing^2]

I spent the afternoon spattering paint on a canvas in the style of Jackson Pollock. I didn't take photos as I was worried about dripping on the camera. It was a lot of fun and the results look pretty cool. It was a far more physical activity than I would have suspected. Can't wait to see how it looks when it dries. I don't really enjoy all Abstract Expressionist art but somehow the movement and emotion of Pollock's pieces are very interesting. They really need to be seen in person to really be appreciated.

Once the paint dries, I'll post a photo.

I was checking on amazon to see the status of my latest order. I ran into somthing they called a plog.

Here is a screen shot of something I found kind of funny.

Evidently if you are willing to hike around an island with a backpack on, you might not like some liberal mouthing off. Seems pretty funny to me. [I used to really enjoy Moore's humour, when it was less partisan. He used to pick on everyone in power.]

I hope it isn't easy to reverse engineer the customer id part of this. I would hate to make it easy for big brother or anyone else to get people's reading lists.