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spamtastic

Dec
20

holy hell, i got comment spammed like crazy today…i got hit with 31 in just the last couple hours…luckily, i’m pretty good about maintaining my list of terms to block in wordpress, so none of them got through…one thing that was really interesting about this batch of spam was that the spammers are definitely getting more sophisticated…some of them had text of 4-5 sentences that could almost look like a real comment if you didn’t look very carefully…for example:

The life of man is the life of a moving being, and it would not be sufficient for him to develop body alone. A plant is rooted: it stays in one place and cannot move. It would be very surprising, therefore, to discover that a plant had a mind; or at least a mind in any sense which we could comprehend. If a plant could foresee or project consequences, the faculty would be useless to it. What advantage would it be for the plant to think: ‘Here is someone coming. In a minute he will tread on me, and I shall be dead underfoot’? The plant would still be unable to move out of the way. All moving beings, however, can foresee and reckon up the direction in which to move; and this fact makes it necessary to postulate that they have minds or souls. by texas holdem

crazy, they keep getting better techniques, and we keep playing catch-up trying to block them…

lucky33 - xmas edition

Dec
13

a few changes on the site for the holiday season…enjoy

Update 1/04/2005 - Site back to normal, see image below:
christmas edition of this site

  • written by: Nick @ 2:17 pm on Dec 13, 2004
  • categories: Redesign
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Hacking the iPod firmware

Dec
9

i’m totally going to do this, not sure what i’ll make my background yet though

the sky was on fire

Dec
6

friday night i made my first trip to jazzy willy’s with derek to see lost cause, who is made up of aeon grey (luke) and angle (who i’m pretty sure i sat by in advanced math in high school)…jazzy willy’s was pretty ghetto, they were decorated for every holiday, with tinsel up for christmas, flags up for the 4th of july, and a big happy new year’s sign over the door…anyway, it was a really good show, with the opening act gai den gadema and of course lost cause being the highlights…saturday we ate at taste of thailand, and i had some really pissed-off chicken that was spicy as hell…then we watched fireworks and i was really, really cold…then we bowled and drank at the cAb, where derek set the new record on the Silver Strike Bowling machine…sunday was quiet and i just watched football all day…

  • written by: Nick @ 9:13 am on Dec 6, 2004
  • categories: Events
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  • comments: 1 Comment