Under a Gibbous Moon

Must post, James Rummel’s gonna delete me! Must post, James Rummel’s gonna delete me! Must post, James Rummel’s gonna delete me! Must post, James Rummel’s gonna delete me! Must post, James Rummel’s gonna delete me! Must post, James Rummel’s gonna delete me! Must post, James Rummel’s gonna delete me! Must post, James Rummel’s gonna delete me!

But seriously, without an official notification from the author, one month, otherwise give them six.

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Gonna give something new a try. I’m not just going to except email and tweets but now you can call me up! Sure, it’ll go to voice mail but I’ll be able to hear you complain.

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As a follow up to my previous post on blog spam, I recently received two spam comments that were perfect examples, that and they were conveniently right next to each other to make for a good screen shot.

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The first one is quit obviously of the IHYSETCOT variety. Luckily for everyone, this person, well bot, is nice enough to to make the links so scary looking that only the terminally stupid or dangerously curious would click on them.

The second one is of the SEO variety. It is suitably generic and appeals to the blogger’s vanity (Drat! How did they discover my one weakness!) Underneath the name you’ll see the URL bronsteinreport.com. This is the web site that is attempting improve its search engine ranking by throwing out links wildly like a frat boy sows his oats.

Now I understand that this post was exceptionally dry and what you really came to see was the latest issue of Blog Spam Illustrated, so I won’t deny you:

Don’t say I never give you anything.

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Yes, I shamelessly stole that title from a Smashing Pumpkins song.

Blog spam is something that anyone (and I mean anyone) who has had a blog for more than five or six seconds has had to deal with. Sure the amount ebbs and flows with the tides and your page ranking but it is still and omnipresent nuisance.

Blog spam is split into two categories, SEO spam and I-Hope-You’re-Stupid-Enough-To-Click-On-This spam. (continue reading…)

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The first hard drive that I ever had was 500 MB. Yes, it was smaller than the storage capacity of a CD-ROM, but that’s OK because they didn’t have those then either.

As the years went by, whenever I went looking for a new hard drive, it was always to get the biggest that I could afford. The size was needed to put all those shiny new games, MP3s, and digital videos that kept getting larger as their quality increased.

Recently and after a protracted illness, my hard drive passed away. After a brief mourning period I found myself tasked with replacing it. I didn’t want to spend a lot of money on a new one as my laptop is already over three years old. Instead, I found myself looking for the highest quality hard drive that I could find at the best price.

I found this interesting because storage is no longer a major issue. All of the hard drives I looked at were over 200 GB in size. Digital storage has no become so cheap that, unless you have specialized needs (i.e. video editing), it is impossible to pull a hard drive off of the shelf and it not be at least adequate. Suddenly it’s not all about storage size but the extra features (like shock protection for when I drop my laptop) and the specs of the discs (cache, RPMs).

From my earliest experiences with computing, storage space was always at a premium and now it has become essentially free.

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