Man, those comment spammers are relentless. All month I’ve been logging 404 errors from comment spammers with spammy referrer URLs trying to hit my MT installation. If they were actually hitting the scripts (a few are), I might be really annoyed. But the fact that they’re all going to a bad URL and just getting 404 pages only has me mildly annoyed at the moment. What’s more puzzling is that none of the spammy referrer URLs are even real. So what are these guys tring to point people to? And if they keep getting 404 errors, why do they keep trying? These guys are either incredibly stupid or their spambots are incredibly stupid. Or more likely both.
25 Questions
My friend Mike sent me another one of these things, so I thought I’d answer it in my blog again like the last one.
A busy holiday season
The holiday season is always busy for me. Not with holiday things, but just work things. Most people see things slowing down at work during the holidays, but for me that’s usually when I’m the busiest. New equipment installations for some reason seem to happen most often between Oct-Jan as companies push for sales and installations to close out their fiscal year. Departments with new budgets buy new equipment which just happens to get installed this ime of year.
And then there’s me trying to get the last of the surveys done in the remaining few weeks of the year.
This year has been busier than most because of some of the new responsibilities I’ve taken on and have assumed. A couple more research studies to support, other projects to work on, and lots of web stuff to wor on.
It just never ends. In a few weeks it will be time to start the whole equipment testing cycle all over again.
Computing with Lego
This is pretty cool. Logic gates built with Lego. Who knew Legos could be so versatile. With a few of these, I imagine it should be possible to build a simple Lego calculator.
How geeky cool would that be? 🙂
Found on Slashdot.
Amusing sigs
Saw this one belonging to jjshoe in a comment posted in Slashdot and got a kick out of it.
botsex is {grep;touch;strip;unzip;head;mount} /dev/girl -t {wet;fsck;fsck;yes;yes;yes;umount} {/dev/girl;zip;sleep}