My wife has decided our next vehicle should be a Nissan Titan. She wants the crew cab version. It’s a big monstrous truck with a big engine, big truck bed, big wheels, big everything. Made a quick trip to the local Morris Nissan to see if we could find out more info. They had the 2003 King Cab version, so we poked around it a bit to check it out. Definitely a big vehicle. Very nice and looks very comfy inside. Hate to think of what the gas mileage will be on the beast though.
Remember
11 AM, November 11, 1918
Today marks the 85th anniversary of the end of World War I, the Great War, the War to End All Wars.
In Flander’s Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
A pox on blog spammers
The masses are stirring, provoked by the likes of Adam Kalsey, Jeremy Wright and Jay Allen’s MT Blacklist plugin.
Junk mail in my mailbox is already a PITA. Spam in my email is even more of a PITA. At least I have filters that trash most of it before I get to see it. But to have to deal with it in my blog is about the last straw.
So, if you blog with MovableType, make sure you have the latest version of MT-Blacklist installed. Declare your blog a spam-free zone and fight back against spammers.
I still want to shoot them with large cannons.
What are people doing here?
My ‘People Visited From’ block (courtesy VisitorLocation) has been up for a little while now showing where the last 6 or 7 people have surfed in from since the last rebuild. Some of them are from pretty far away places: Australia, Iran, Peru, The Netherlands. Most are from the US. So it makes me wonder…how do people make their way here? How did they find this little blog of mine and what are they looking for that brings them here? I see a lot of Google and Yahoo! referrals in the logs. What do they think of what they find here? Not many of them leave comments, so they’re all just silent visitors.
What are these people looking for?
Browsing through my MT activity log, I notice some people searching my blog for some unusual items. Here’s a small selection of some of the search words being entered.
- dragonball
- gundam (what’s a gundam?)
- jawn
- milkshake
- bling bling
- grundy puffs
- cheese monkey (huh?)
- sphyncter (sic)
- godzilla
- neng
- clitoris
Leaves me wondering what it was these people are looking for here, and how the heck they got the impression that it could be found here?
of course, now that I’ve listed all these words, it should only be a matter of time before my blog starts showing up on search engines, which will lead to more people coming here searching for strange things that will only show up here because I’ve posted about people searching for strange things.
On another note, MT-Blacklist seems to be working as expected weeding out comment spam here. I probably don’t get nearly as much as other more visited sites, but it has blocked 4 attempts since I installed it about a week ago. Hooray!
Eudora 6.0’s new SpamWatch and POPFile are also cutting down significantly the amount of spam my eyeballs get subjected to.