Category Archives: spam

blog popularity

Well, my blog seems to be picking up on popularity… with spam bots. Today I got hit a number of times with comment spam for drug prescriptions dammit, and due to invalid email addresses I got accidental warnings in my email, so I noticed them right away. Time to check in on the spam protection [...]

statwhoring

My blog has been running for over a year now (whoohooo) and that means it’s time to look at some stats. I notice my hits have been going up considerably since I’ve started using the technorati tags in my posts, generating lots of traffic, especially on the Yahoo! 360° posts. Search engine traffic is not [...]

spam haiku

One spam message caught my attention for some reason yesterday at work, and made me open it. Instead of an embedded image promoting some new way of enhancing my male reproductive organs, I found some weird, I assume automatically generated, haiku-esque message. —–Original Message—– From: Filomena Yolande [mailto:vzeay45zhyjg@blazenet.net] Sent: vrijdag 27 mei 2005 13:01 To: [...]

funny spam

Spam, you have to hate it by now. But occasionally you get this message in your inbox that is so (I guess unwillingly) funny that you just have to share it with other people. One I got forwarded by a colleague is this one, and damn, who doesn’t want a bigger load right? Hey, it [...]