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I shall no longer receive your accolades
I've removed comments because I can't keep up with all of the spam. Sadly, the little CMS that could doesn't have much firepower against spambots. You will have to return to adoring me in silence.
Posted at: 18:52
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When I recently changed my e-mail hosting, I decided to have all mail sent to any address at my domain forwarded to a catch-all address, so that I could sift through in case I was missing something. I haven't really gotten much spam in recent years, thanks to my very convoluted e-mail set up, which I described here. It's actually been kind of fun to sift through all of the garbage to see all of the hilarious random text that gets generated for these mailings. The message that inspired me to write this follows:
Date: Today
From: Randomly generated woman's name
To: Me
Subject: Public Ruination
Pelt the frame!!!!
Of course, the body was a link to some malicious website.
I found this one particularly amusing because most of the spam subject lines try to trick you into thinking it's from a friend by being incredibly vague, or by indicating that the sender has some kind of magic penis enlargement pill/service/raygun to sell. I guess this one was shooting for that one in a million chance that it would be read by someone with a really guilty conscience? About throwing things at other things?
I guess it's equally possible that "pelt the frame" could be some slang that I'm not hip to.
Sidenote: All of this spam is being sent to an e-mail address I used the first time I registered this domain in 2001, but didn't start using again when I re-registered in 2004. I'm can't imagine where I must have dropped that address to warrant something on the order of 50 spam messages a day...
Posted at: 12:05
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I shall receive your accolades
I have finally found a satisfactory solution for comments through blosxom, so feel free to take the time to let me (and my legion of readers) know how awesome you think I am.
Posted at: 15:58
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If you can read this, then your ISP's DNS has updated to reflect my hosting changes. Congratulations! You have probably read about Dreamhost's gigantic fuck-up at the top of the year, through which they accidentally billed their customers for $7.5 million in erroneous charges. Thankfully I had my credit card on file and not my debit card, or I would have gone through overdraft hell. So while this didn't really affect me that much financially, I have to say that I found their official response to this situation to be rather unprofessional. Next time, guys, it might be a good idea to leave out the picture of Homer Simpson and the screengrab from Office Space...
So I decided to shop around a bit. At first, it seemed like I actually had a pretty good deal at Dreamhost, paying $9.95 monthly. Most other hosts that had been recommended to me have yearly billing cycles, which didn't really appeal to me. Also, my needs are rather meager, so I don't need 300 gigs of (oversold) bandwidth.
This is where my new host comes in. There's no monthly fee, they just bill based on usage. Sort of like the prepaid phone of web hosting world? Except actually a value, and maybe not a scam? It came highly recommended by anonymous goons, so I figured I'd give it a shot. Based on my usage records at Dreamhost I should expect to pay less than $2.00 monthly, which suits my needs just fine.
Thus concludes this scintillating coverage of the current status of my web hosting. I now return you to wall-to-wall coverage of Heath Ledger's death, already in progress.
Posted at: 14:18
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I am in the process of importing some entries from older iterations of this blog into the...current...iteration? Basically, whenever I changed templates or CMS engines I would pretty much just delete everything in embarrassment. Reading through some of my older entries here, however, I've realized how much I value being able to look at these snapshots of myself. Y'know, like a journal. Unfortunately, I appear to have made it rather hard on myself, so it may be some time before I'm able to fully restore what was lost.
Anyway, those of you who read this via RSS (Hi, Jon!) may see all of these older entries appear as though they are new, which may lead to some wacky anachronisms. Heads up!
Posted at: 22:00
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