verbosity: July 2004 Archives

July 29, 2004

draggin' pegs

Just got back from a ride. For those of you that understand scraping pegs...you know. For those of you that do what I'm talkin' about: I salute you. The geek in me (which is a rather large portion) has always wanted to measure that angle; the self-preservationist wants nothing to do with the knowledge of "how low can you go."

Posted by blaine at 22:44 (-06:00) | Comments (1)

July 22, 2004

Combating Blog Comment Spam

As mentioned previously, I've recently become a victim of Blog Comment Spam, even though I maintain a journal. I had planned to implement some form of anti-spam measure at my leisure, but since my initial complaint post I've been barraged no less than four more times. Immediate action was needed.

My good friend Andy commented that Wil Wheaton's blog sports a CAPTCHA Turing Test, the origin being BlogSpam.org's solution #4, a Movable Type hack by James Seng. To combat Blog Comment Spam here, I have both upgraded MovableType to obtain TypeKey account support, and implemented the above CAPTCHA. I've even hacked it up a bit so that registered TypeKey accounts can post without fulfilling the CAPTCHA. I'll post my implementation soon in case others want to use it.

Posted by blaine at 19:28 (-06:00) | Comments (4)

July 15, 2004

The true meaning of Golf

James, since you've complained that I never mention you in my journal...

Buddy, this one's for you.

Posted by blaine at 10:23 (-06:00) | Comments (0)

July 14, 2004

Blog spam

Oh how I want to throttle someone:

  23 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'May I Axe you a question?'
  24 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'May I Axe you a question?'
  25 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'May I Axe you a question?'
  26 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.3K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Darwin, come to daddy'
  27 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.3K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Darwin, come to daddy'
  28 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.3K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Darwin, come to daddy'
  29 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.3K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Darwin, come to daddy'
  30 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Ghost-ing, but not on a LAN'
  31 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Ghost-ing, but not on a LAN'
  32 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Ghost-ing, but not on a LAN'
  33 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'The Rhodium Card (tm)'
  34 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'The Rhodium Card (tm)'
  35 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'The Rhodium Card (tm)'
  36 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Fabric Origami'
  37 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Fabric Origami'
  38 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Fabric Origami'
  39 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Fabric Origami'
  40 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Your duty as a man'
  41 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Your duty as a man'
  42 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Your duty as a man'
  43 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Your duty as a man'
  44 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'The Trouble with Tribblogs'
  45 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'The Trouble with Tribblogs'
  46 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'The Trouble with Tribblogs'
  47 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Pretty Crappy Service'
  48 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Pretty Crappy Service'
  49 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Pretty Crappy Service'
  50 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'One dolla make ya holla'
  51 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'One dolla make ya holla'
  52 N   07/14 miriot@moil.com (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'One dolla make ya holla'
  53 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'May I Axe you a question?'
  54 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'May I Axe you a question?'
  55 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'May I Axe you a question?'
  56 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'May I Axe you a question?'
  57 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Darwin, come to daddy'
  58 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Darwin, come to daddy'
  59 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Darwin, come to daddy'
  60 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.3K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Ghost-ing, but not on a LAN'
  61 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.3K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Ghost-ing, but not on a LAN'
  62 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.3K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Ghost-ing, but not on a LAN'
  63 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.3K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Ghost-ing, but not on a LAN'
  64 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'The Rhodium Card (tm)'
  65 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'The Rhodium Card (tm)'
  66 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'The Rhodium Card (tm)'
  67 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'The Rhodium Card (tm)'
  68 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.3K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Fabric Origami'
  69 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.3K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Fabric Origami'
  70 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.3K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Fabric Origami'
  71 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.3K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Fabric Origami'
  72 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Your duty as a man'
  73 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Your duty as a man'
  74 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Your duty as a man'
  75 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.3K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'The Trouble with Tribblogs'
  76 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.3K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'The Trouble with Tribblogs'
  77 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.3K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'The Trouble with Tribblogs'
  78 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.3K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'The Trouble with Tribblogs'
  79 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Pretty Crappy Service'
  80 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Pretty Crappy Service'
  81 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Pretty Crappy Service'
  82 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.3K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'Pretty Crappy Service'
  83 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'One dolla make ya holla'
  84 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'One dolla make ya holla'
  85 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'One dolla make ya holla'
  86 N   07/14 filarmon@moil.c (0.4K) [verbosity] New Comment Posted to 'One dolla make ya holla'

An epic battle between spammers and my IP-banning. Because I don't have better things to do with my time...

I wonder how smart their spamming software is. Perhaps it can be thwarted by simply changing the URL of the comment CGI.

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