Comments on: Jerks

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:09:21 +0000

There’s another wrinkle in the spam wars that I would speculate is a semi-new corruption, and little talked about. It is the hijacking of your internet searching by pages that somehow instantly incorporate your search term and include it on their page. For example, say you want to know more about biogeochemical models that simulate carbon uptake in the ocean, so you enter something like, “carbon cycle geochemical model” and the next thing you know you’re on some bogus page that lists vacuum cleaners CARBON CYCLE, home business opportunities in GEOCHEMICAL, and MODEL airplane glue: best prices!

What a bunch of shite. Asswipes.

I got caught up in one of those pages and it instantly reset my browser to fill the entire screen. I couldn’t get my mouse arrow into any corner to bring it back in line. It took a half hour reading the mozilla help file to find a way to resize the window. And my fonts are still jacked up.

Jerks, jerks jerks. FATWWTRC.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:20:59 +0000

Still don’t have the haiku list updated. Sorry about that. I’d do it now, but the particular Internet bar I’m in has no electrical outlets, and my time is running out.

I’ll do the images offline and pst them next time I find Internet.

By: John H.

John H. — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 03:28:23 +0000

Man the battlements!
Barbarians at the gates!
Spam fries in hot oil

By: Carol Anne

Carol Anne — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:28:55 +0000

Man, you go away for a weekend and all Hell breaks loose.

Five commentspams. Three obscene. Two purportedly purveying child porn. Not suitable for the level of decorum I wish to maintain. Note that my level of decorum isn’t all THAT high — I’ve never censored Dr. Pants.

I’ve instituted Level One Protection Plan.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:46:08 +0000

sigh
just went over to CA’s blog and her latest has been hit by 4 stupid comment spams. Jer had it right when he labeled this entry ‘jerks.’
Nobody expects the Spammish Inquisition!
I wonder what would happen if she had a “floating” first entry that was nothing; it would just be space filler that would always look like the latest episode to the outside world, but her latest, real entry would be inserted right below? Then the FATWWTRC* would attack the filler entry and we could all ignore it.

*first against the wall when the revolution comes

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 23:22:41 +0000

Bob, you are the only one to come up with suggestions for Oct 2th. I’m just trying to figure out how to do Rock-Paper-Scissors with myself to figure out which one to use.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 15:20:27 +0000

You could call Oct the Twoth “Padres Day”. Obviously, that would be no relation to Father’s Day.

By: Carol Anne

Carol Anne — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:14:57 +0000

And Gravatar’s website is still “closed for maintenance,” so I can’t get an answer about what’s going on.

By: Carol Anne

Carol Anne — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:10:16 +0000

Oops, that last comment was mine, not Pat’s.

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:05:10 +0000

OK, this is really weird. Pat logs on and sees my gravatar, but then I get online, and all I get for a gravatar is a blank black box.