Tanked Up

Does anyone click on the bloody stuff? Do spammers live worth while fulfilling lives? Do they sleep well at night knowing that I’ve spent most of the day loading anti spam filters, deleting email addresses we’ve used for years, because they are now inundated with 200 emails a day full of complete shite!! Probably.
For some reason the last two days have brought it all to a head with the comments and emails both becoming unusable AND my web host being hit with a DDOS which has crippled it. Why can’t these half wits be prosecuted. It’s getting to the stage where most of your time is spent deleting or finding ways of blocking these fuckers.
I can sympathize completely with Simon Collison of Colly Logic, who coincidently posted this rather amusing rant on the same subject today. And he actually gets legitimate comments sent to him, so it must be infuriating. We’ve had very little feedback so it’s not really a problem to disable comments. If my glass was half empty I’d be depressed at the lack of interest in the posts, but my glass is half full, so it’s no real problem to ditch comments
Unless something can be invented to stop spammers, I give it five years and the internet bandwidth will be mostly taken up by these sad bastards, if it isn’t already.
If anyone knows a good way of preventing spam, please share. Well until this post gets hit too and I have to disable comments again! I’m not even sure if this will post due to the dodgy nature of my web hosting at the moment …

It seems like most weeks nowadays there is a new report of global warming/damage. There appears to be little or no real effort to do anything about it. Whenever environmental issues come up and they effect 4×4/SUV use or how much it puts us out, people ring in and complain about the price of petrol.

I read this report on the BBC news site today and I would recommend you read it too and then vote in a government that will :
1. Acknowledge there is a problem

2. Act now, rather than them saying what they think you want to hear, so that they can get into power

IE7 is out at last and I’ve had a good look at it this evening. Errrr what’s new?

I mean really, what’s new, not copied, but really new? I can’t see any Firefox converts changing back. IE7 is better than IE6, what isn’t, but I get the feeling M$ are only playing catch up now. Would be nice to see them innovate a bit wouldn’t it?

And Firefox 2.0 is out now too, no major visual differences, but more secure. I hope both of them take up Opera 9’s page preview on tab idea. If you don’t know what I mean download and check it out, it’s the best feature I’ve seen on a browser for a while.

I saw an item that can be found on the BBC News about the follow up to Steve Irwins death. What sort of morons would want to to this?! I would have thought ‘fans’ of Steve Irwin would have some idea about conservation, I’m also sure he would have been pretty pissed off about it. It just looks like an excuse to act like a twat to me.

I was checking our website stats last night and noticed an unusual search term that found us.

‘Where to purchase Red Sea Coral’, I was a bit stunned to be honest.

1. How the f@$k did they get to our site? A reference to a Red Sea Coral Grouper apparently. So, not so smart then.

2. Who the hell want’s to buy coral anyway??! With the rate that coral reefs are being destroyed at present, you’d think that people were wising up to the fact and that it might be a good idea to leave the bloody stuff where it belongs … IN THE SEA!!

Checking further I see the searcher originated from Washington in the good old USA. Maybe it was that environmental enthusiast George W Bush, looking to add the destruction of the Red Sea to his list of wonderful achievments. I think we all know what the W stands for, unfortunately it doesn’t translate in the US
Wow two rants for the price of one, not bad eh?

Well summer is here at last, it took its sweet time this year! So we Brits can’t moan about the cold weather anymore. What the hell can we moan about now?

Been on the underground recently, Jeez it’s bloody humid! Still, I’m not as pissed off as this geezer

I know Man Utd hardly ever get penalties against them at Old Trafford, but isn’t disallowing goals that go a meter over the line taking it a bit far! Is Mark Clattenburg from Manchester?