It appears my site is the site to be … if you work for a pharmaceutical company, that is. For the past few weeks, bots (or really bored but motivated people… ) have been spamming my blog with comments. Some advertise dieting drugs, a few poker … but it was getting very annoying.
I’ve added a small verification feature to my comments to hopefully avoid them. If not, I shall have to summon up a flock of illiterate pigeons.
In other news … Bordercats are doing fine. They lost the game I saw today (fast game!) but I‘m confident they will recover. We have impressive fielding, but our hitting is only so-so. And unfortunately some of our best players are leaving before the end of the season, such as Jonathan Diaz, a most awesome shortstop who makes great game-saving plays.
I should go to bed, tomorrow I must get up bright and early. We (my family) are going on a road trip to Grand Marais, Minnesota. Living close to the border does have its advantages, eh. The trip there and back will be somewhere around 3-4 hours, so I’ll have time to finish some books, hopefully.
My brother and father have joined the dark side! They actually purchased an item advertised by The Canadian Tire family! I was shocked and appalled. The Motomaster Eliminator something-or-other. Basically a very large battery with lots of adaptor plugins that you can charge by plugging into your car. The device is probably quite useful, but I can’t believe they bought something advertised by the Canadian Tire family… .
Anyway, road trip tomorrow. I’ll probably post about it when I get home, around 7 PM or so.
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No, I built the blog myself. 
I honestly had no clue WordPress existed back when I set up this site, and I got so tired of hardcoding news that I set out to find a way to get the computer to do it for me.
And now the tables are turned, and the computer is betraying its master… .
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Are you running WordPress? If so, try the excellent Spam Karma 2 (http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/), it works brilliantly for me, gets rid of all the poker spam and everything
It is sad that idiots have to set up spam bot things, they‘re really annoying if you’re not protected against it
Sunday, August 7, 2005 at 8:04 AM