Category: Site News

So the latest trend in comment/trackback spam is furniture. Ceiling fans, wood flooring, wood cabinets, etc. May I just point out the fact that this is retarded.
In addition, the very latest spam was about “oral herpes genital pictures.” Now that is some sick shit.
In a perfect world, spammers are Tokyo and I am Godzilla.

Although I have no idea why you would want to do such a thing, for the next couple of months (until the registration expires), you can reach C. Buddha’s Hasty Musings through the alternate domain:
http://lepetit.us
So end my aspirations of putting up a French midget foot fetish blog there.

A recent comment from an entry on my moblog:
“I HAVE BEEN BUYING YOUR WOODPECKER CIDER FOR MANY YEARS AND RECENTLY GOT MY BOYFRIEND TO ENJOY IT WITH ME AS HE DOSENT NORMALLY LIKE CIDER BUT ENJOYS YOURS VERY MUCH!!UNTIL TODAY WHEN I BOUGHT A BOTTLE OF YOUR WOODPECKER CIDER 2 LITRES WHEN I POURED HIM A GLASS AND A HUGE FLY CAME OUT OF THE BOTTLE!!!WE WERE VERY DISSAPPOINTED AT THIS AS WE REALLY ENJOY YOUR CIDER.” – DEBORAH CLARKE
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Deborah,
That isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. PLUS, COULD YOU PLEASE STOP SHOUTING IN HERE!!HURTS MY EARS.

What the hell? (see comments at bottom of that page) May as well have some fun with it, I guess.

Some asshole spammer is spamming blogs with a link from my blog (details here). He’s spamming my readers/commenters, it seems. I apologize for this. I have nothing to do with the spam being sent. But I still feel very bad about the people getting spammed.
On the brighter side of things, SPAM spelled backwards is still MAPS.

E-mail: cosmicbuddha AT gmail DOT com
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Skype name: cosmicbuddha

Is real life imitating my weblog? You decide:
Soy Sauce in TABASCO vs. TABASCO brand Soy Sauce
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An old friend left a comment on the post I left right before going on vacation. That’s my homegirl, Molly, who can be forgiven for living among the Cheese Nips (my affectionate and uber-PC nickname for Japanese-French friends) in Bordeaux for so long mainly because she kicks so much ass… Anyhow, I’m corresponding with her via e-mail now, and she mentioned that she couldn’t post the word “ass” in my comments.
I assume that something in her comment got caught in the blacklist I use to keep spammers from filling my comments with “EXXXPLODE HER W1TH YOUR PURPLE-WARR10R’S BEST FR13ND, V1AL1S” type of shit, but I don’t think it was due to the word “ass,” as she claims. Here’s where my request to you, loyal readers, comes in: PLEASE TRY POSTING OBSCENITIES IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS POST.
I’m guessing this may not be so hard for some of you. I myself will be posting a song to kick things off in a “slightly more interesting than average guttermouth” sort of way, but feel free to soil my online home with whatever dirtiness digs your fancy. If your comment happens to be rejected by my filter, please send it in full to me via e-mail (jATcosmicbuddhaDOTcom). OK? Peace; thx in advance. NOW FUCKING GET TO IT!

I’ve decided to see how long it takes Adam to see the blogpet thing to the left. This should be a fun experiment.

Two words: WORK. BUSY.
Oh, hell, one more can’t hurt: FUCK!
But this is not a Work post. This is about whether I will be overhauling this site during winter vacation or not.
You see, I’m thinking about ditching Movable Type for another blogging platform. It is a great shame that MT’s great success is quickly becoming its downfall due to comment spam, but it is a fact. Spammers target MT blogs in particular because of the broad user base – spamming is all about volume, I guess. Spam pisses me off, and I tend to take attacks on my weblog rather seriously.
So. I have thought of upgrading to Movable Type 3 and MT Blacklist 2, but I’ve heard more than a few words of caution and it doesn’t seem that this upgrade improves the spam situation very much at all. As far as MT3’s TypeKey system goes, I’d rather not have comments at all than make my readers jump though registration/authorization hoops like that. Geek that I am, I wanted to upgrade since MT3 first came out, but I followed an old rule of thumb and waited for the action reports to start streaming in from the early adopters. If I stay with MT, I will of course upgrade at some point, but I need to decide whether to “stay or go” first.
I am thinking about other blogging platforms, but am far from deciding. Other people who have switched from MT know the best, and I am reading about their experiences across a wide range of blogging software/services (Some people, in desperation, have even ditched dedicated MT installations for Blogger/Blogspot accounts. I am not that desperate. Yet.). To be honest, if it were not for the gnarlific spam problems that are only getting more and more heinoucerous, I would not be thinking about other platforms at all, because at this point, I don’t see any as well-developed and rich in features as Movable Type.
So maybe I will upgrade after all.
As a stopgap, before upgrading to MT3 I could use a Captcha system, which is a short code set against a disruptive background that the commenter has to read and type in (thus defeating automated spam bots). I may lose some of my blind readers with this system, but that is a risk I may be forced to take…
This entire diarrheastic stream of ranty incomprehension has led me to conclude: Spammers should be rounded up and shot, or at least poked with red hot swords in the eyeballs until they repent.