Broken Computers
I’m lucky I have four computers at my disposal, otherwise I’d be screwed. Yesterday two of them broke. The Sawtooth mac was upgrading its OS when it crashed. Now it kernel panics whenever it boots up. It wouldn’t be a big deal, but I can’t find my 10.3 CDs at the moment.
Then, my old PC (the music server), died again. It had a hard drive failure on its system drive a few months ago, and Berg kindly gave me a brand new drive to replace it. Unfortunately, that new drive has now failed. Curses! The drive is still under warranty, but I have to pack it up, ship it in, and wait for a replacement, all pains in my ass.
Fortunately my other Mac and my media PC are both functioning. For the moment.
In the world of improved computer stuff, I have a small announcement. I bit the bullet and upgraded this blog to MovableType 3.12. This is the version with more restrictive licensing, which is frustrating. However, it also has some major enhancements, particularly in the realm of spam-blocking. In the last week, I’ve been hit with over 3000 spam comments. The existing system for blacklisting and removing spam was functioning, but the overwhelming deluge of spam was beginning to expose the software’s weaknesses. It was time for an upgrade.
Now, comments to posts older than three weeks will be moderated, meaning I must approve them before they appear. If this happens to you, don’t worry, I’ll approve your comment as long as you aren’t selling penis pills. Also, comments with more than two URLs in them will be moderated. If you have to post a lot of links, go ahead and do so, but know that your comment won’t appear on the website right away, I’ll have to approve it (which, again, I’ll do as long as you aren’t selling penis pills). The amount of spam actually appearing on the website should decrease drastically from this point on, though one may occasionally slip through my ever-tightening nets.
If you feel like you have been blocked or needlessly moderated, or I seem to have forgotten to approve your legit comment, please “contact me”:/contact.shtml.
6 comments Tuesday 07 Dec 2004 | Sam | Metacrap
Well, I see you disapprove of my current job in sales. It was polite of you to not come right out and say “Mom, stop selling those penis pills!” but you sure can dance around a subject. Fine, I’ll stop….but could I interest you in some Breast Baubles? Nose Nair? Ass Assure? Face Fluff? No?……Nothing? You are a tough one. (can I put them in your xmas stocking?)
Hmm, I like the sound of your legitimate business offer, and I would like a good deal on a big penis.
I’ll contact you and we can exchange financial information. Then you can give me my BIG P33N1$!!!
Thanks for contacting me, kind business man.
Oh, and mother. I am very ashamed of you and your line of work.
Do I still get a 10% discount though?
TEN PERCENT DISCOUNT??!! Well, ok, since you’re family. I’ll also give you a tip….double your pills and double your P33N1$. Yep, trust me, ask your dad. I give him a discount too. I get the Baubles for myself. By the way, sorry about your ‘puters but Mercury is in retrograde. Computers crash, printers die, Pearl’s gas line springs a spouting leak…..it’s all related to Mercury.
yeah. The printer is like, “Hey guys, I just decided that I’m gonna break now. Have a nice life suckas!” then it printed some offer for a “v1@gr4/81gp333n1$/l1f31n5ur4nc3/fr33pr0np@$$w0rds”
Stupid Mercury…
so, what about pumps, though? XXX and all that. And is there a ban, per se, on those sweet spy cams you can use for wathcing the babbysitter while she is in the bathroom? Just checking.