Gecko Bloggle

I’ve been tempted to place my IP filter (Protowall) on my server for blocking this sort of thing, and then masssage the heck out of the data so I can still get to my server from work (Protowall was designed as an Anti-Anti-P2P application, which my employer would fall under), but there’s lots of groups listed in the IP blocks as “scammers, spammers, badporn,” and those sortsa things. I’ve been running it on my workstation as a way to avoid a lot of the popup and cookie tracking systems out there, and so far so good, but there’s new blocks being added all the time, so I just don’t know.

It’s tempting to put together a script that humans wouldn’t see, but the spammer scripts *would* that looks up their IP, and sends the comment to the Abuse@ for the IP block owner… That’d be fun.

Either that, or find the $10/hr guy in the Bay Area (or wherever he is), who’s been writing the commenting scripts (and the Google silliness that finds new posts) and offer him $100 for his customer list as “Market Research.”

I configured things properly.

Okay, now it should be the whole shebang on both sites.

But you can comment at either one.

It’s supposed to put more than just (go to the site to see the rest) thing.

Hmm…

Click here if you wanna know what the heck I’m talking about.

The deal is this: people send requests for songs to the Songs To Wear Pants To site, and if you’re lucky, you might actually get one.

Personal Fave: The “I am Bjork” song (with Lyrics, perfect music, and a somewhat startling impression of her Icelandicness)

Most of the songs are a minute or less, so it’s not too painful for dialup folks, but for full effect, I suggest fatpipes.

There is a CD in the works, too. Yikes.

Thanks to Darren’s site for this one.

Hey, does this mean that I can write and it’ll sync now?

I guess we’ll just have to wait & see.

Somehow, I’ve managed to avoid the “Can’t talk: Halflife2” effect, but I think that’s mostly ’cause Ripley would be traumatized forever if he saw “daddy’s computer” display screaming burning dudes with thawed turkeys on their heads.

Blew the pluralization there. One head per burning dude. One turkey-monster per head. No substitutions.

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Okay, so I’m playing with the latest & greatest version of WordPress anti-comment-spam RBL Of course, I’ve misconfigured something, because I accidentally managed to get blocked on my very first post!

On… my own… server.

From my house.

Hmm…

For now, I’m setting it to moderate anything that’s deemed unworthy, until I figure this out.

I understand that EA is wanting to be pretty tight-lipped about what’s going on with EA_Spouse and the Class Action Suit in LA, but this just seems kinda empty in response to Kirschenbaum’s suit for unpaid overtime:

EA issued a statement in response to Kirschenbaum’s lawsuit, which was filed in San Mateo Superior Court. “We offer competitive salaries, bonuses, stock options, health care and a wide variety of other benefits and work environments that are second to none in our industry,” the company said. “EA remains committed to our customers and our employees and will continue to do all we can to ensure EA is a great place to work.’‘

Other portions of the piece from SiliconValley (click the quote above to link) seems to be on the “but they’re paid well” side of this issue.

I’m still not entirely sure where I stand. As I’ve said before, BC employees can’t have overtime because we’re high-tech workers. Essentially, in BC, if you’re a high tech worker, the assumption is that you make enough money to cover your overtime. When that’s the case, you end up making less and less per hour. I’d do the math myself, but it’s time to go to work.

A story being run by the TimesOnline in the UK is talking about HP latest camera and anti-camera toys.

One does this:

By wearing a specially designed electronic badge that jams electronic cameras, they will be able to prevent photographers from taking unwanted pictures.

and the other does this:

Alongside its privacy protection system, Hewlett-Packard is developing a camera activated by a brooch or a clipped-on earring which can take a picture of someone without their knowledge.

Witty Text 1.1 is making my day.

And that little quote thing under the picture at the bottom right of this blog.

Nifto.