Everyday Randomness

Behind The Scenes

I know I’ve been awful quiet today, but there’s a reason for that. I’ve been around, but I’ve been doing some “behind the scenes” work. I got hit pretty had with spam comments this weekend, and as usual when I have an extra large number of spam comments come in at once, I check them out. I spent 2 hours sending out cease & desist letters to spammers who stole not just an excerpt but my entire post.

After I did that I did what I’ve been doing with all spam comments. I blocked the IPs from having access to my sites or feeds. I’m surprised at how much spam I’ve cut down on lately by doing that. I know it could cause me to lose readers, but I’ve also blocked out a couple countries completely…the ones that are known for massive scams and spam comments. The good thing is I haven’t seen a drop in readers since doing that, so I’m keeping those countries blocked for now.

I might be back later on, but for now I’m going to try to get some of this mess in my office cleaned up. I’ve got way too many boxes laying around full of CAT5e cables that are too short to use, extra cable lines for the TVs, and more USB cables that you can ever imagine. I need to go through them, ditch the ones that are old, and combine all the small boxes into one large box of cables.