Asymptomatic

There must be intelligent life down here

The Comment Assault Continues
November 09, 2004

Yawn. You comment spammers have lost your innovation. I’ve been using the same technique to block you for the past week, and you still haven’t caught on. Weirdly, I know you’re reading this, and yet I still taunt you.

Well, all this time you’ve been wasting sending comments that will simply never appear on my site (and what the heck does “get eraaced man” mean anyway? and what the heck does it have to do with “texas holdem” or “debt consolidation”?) , I’ve been designing more effective ways to keep you away. In fact, I already know what the weak spot is in what’s working to keep you out, and have already plugged that hole and more.

Kill the Incredible Man on Fire
November 08, 2004

I saw a few movies over the weekend, and I thought I would record my impressions.

Friday night, Berta and I dropped Abby over at Mom’s for the evening. This could be our last weekend alone before Kid Two shows up. Instead of going to the theater where nothing good was playing (that we wouldn’t be able to see with Abby, anyway) we stayed home and watched one of the many DVD movies we’ve bought and haven’t watched because they’re too old for Abby.

That looks familiar...
November 08, 2004

So I foolishly volunteered to produce some documentation for installing WordPress on IIS, which basically consists of looking around on the support forums for any questions that have to do with IIS and answering them in a formal way on the WordPress wiki.

Of course, one of the big questions is, “How do I install this on Windows?”

Yeah, so...
November 08, 2004

As it turns out, the guy who came into my house on Halloween morning was the guy who lives two doors down from me. Our daughters have played together.

I wonder what I might have done differently had I known it was him. I really didn’t recognize him. At the same time, as the district attorney mentioned, he wasn’t ever in my house, nor was he invited.