Archives for January 2008
the other white meat
22 January 2008 | blog, life | No Responses
The other day, after checking the email account in which my comment posts and user submission get sent to , I have about three hundred emails in the box. Seeing as how over the last 2+ years, only 3 people have left a comment and 4 people actually sent a user submission to me, I figured I got spammed. This happened once last summer on a post I created almost two years ago. It actually looked like a human wrote them, so I left them there out of amusement.
But this was a different story. There were upwards of three hundred all wanting me to visit their del.icio.us list of vagina links and sites full of free ring tones. The email address names were quite amusing as well. This is one of my favorites:
And I added the mailto link so I can hope someone will spam them back.
As a result of this I have removed my user submission and comment forms from the site. I am in the process of setting up wordpress and they have a plugin to handle problems like this. Until then, those who know how to contact me will.
joe
something smells
14 January 2008 | blog, house, lab, mac | No Responses
So I see today apple unleashed a couple of cool new things today. Like many I was expecting a new laptop, but not really this thing. It seems the only thing about this guy that grabs me is the thinness of it. It just looks way to chinsy for my careless ass. I was hoping for a smaller version of the macbook pro. Same look, only smaller with a 12” wide screen. It’s appears to be the same size as the mac book, only thinner. No optical drive, only one usb port, and no firewire drives me away. Looks like I will continue to proceed with my previous decision.
I do like the idea of this time capsule thing. I mean, theres nothing at all revolutionary about it, but if it works well with the macs on your network, thats a pretty good backup solution thats decently priced.
In personal news, I dont really have much news at all. I am now a (semi) proud home owner, so I guess thats news. Between the holidays, getting things squared away with this house and being sick as a dog, I haven’t had any motivation but do much else but sit around and surf the web. I do have plans though. Even though I’m off to a slow start, this year I resoluted to hit the gym hard, blog more, and write more music. I am still in the process of re-vamping this site. Due to the the reasons mentioned above, I lag. I have really moved away from making it look cool and focused on the functionality and usability. Which involves a bit of hacking wordpress by getting elbows deep in some php code.
Soon have a new place to live, a new lab to set up, and new hardware to play with. If this isn’t enough motivation, I dont know what it is.
Joe