July Ramblings of the Mildly Insane Archives

Another Spam Milestone

Since I first activated Akismet just over a year ago, it has caught 106,934 spam comments.
Let’s do the math. 106,934 divided by 365 (I’m rounding down) is equivalent to 293 spam comments a day.
My last message to spammers still stands: I hope rabid gremlins gnaw your faces off while you sleep.

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Prague, Here We Come!

The best news in the world. Just got off the phone with SissieD, and instead of dragging me on one of those floating death traps people call a cruise, we’re going to Prague instead. Can you say “happy, happy, joy, joy”?
If anyone has any ideas on what to see while we’re there (we’ll be heading [...]

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Opening Car Doors is Overrated

I gasped when I saw the video, but it was “oh, so cool” to watch.
If only that ‘93 Licoln Mark whatever were an ‘08 Mercedes S-Class sedan, then we’d be talkin’.

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MTV Real World Moving Down Under

Looks like MTV finally ran out of United States landmarks to exploit for their show and have moved the act down to Australia. To my Aussie friends, you have my sympathies. To the cast, please don’t make us look like dumb Americans. Please.

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Google Inadvertently Protecting (and Funding) Content Thieves

What a day. I was so frustrated I needed to take a long hot shower to calm myself down. I guess, in some sick and twisted way, I should be flattered that someone found my content worthy of duplication. But, I’m not. I’m pissed.
This splogger actually had the audacity to copy/paste pages of content from [...]

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How do some people deal with rude?

In my earlier years, I was a lot more patient, but not any more. I have a difficult time suffering rude people (heck, it’s number 43 on my 100 things) and I just wonder how some people do it.
What makes a person think that spending any amount of money on something gives them to right [...]

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Wreaking Havoc in Starbucks

I wanted to get out of the house, but didn’t want to do anything too involved, so I cajoled my sister into going to the local Starbucks with me. Little did I know how much fun it would turn out to be.
About 10 minutes after sitting down to enjoy our lunch, I worked up enough [...]

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