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Sorry, Nick

July 3, 2008 in blogging, internet by spinstah | 2 comments

I swear I hit publish on this last week! Grumble grumble.

I’m changing back to a summary-only feed to see if this cuts down on the content scraped from here and dumped on one of several spam blogs (all hosted at the same IP) that seem to have found me. This is one of those things where a defensive posture is your best bet.

If you get annoyed by this — for example, if the site regularly loads slowly for you — please speak up. I’m open to changing to a lighter-weight theme. This one stopped working anyway*, so it’s no big loss.

* I think it’s probably a PHP problem since del.icio.us daily blog posting won’t work either, but I don’t quite know enough about what I’m doing to be able to fix it.

Text message spam

June 19, 2008 in tech by spinstah

I’ve only gotten one or two spam text messages, but here’s a roundup on Consumerist that will help you block text message spam. I didn’t click through, but this info comes from a recent NYTimes article.