Diary: February 2006

Spammers Got In, And Made It Hurt

Well, it took them 24 days to get around my simple spammer block, but last night they made up for it. I woke up to 377 spam comments this morning, so I'm afraid I'm going to have to make some more changes to the anti-spam system.

There was a single spam comment posted to one of the entries at some point in the afternoon, and the spam barrage didn't start until the late evening. That leads me to believe that my site was flagged up on a spammer's machine as not accepting their comments, and that ...

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My Shoulder Hurts

Just recently my shoulders have started hurting. Not all the time, not both at the same time, but it will come on during the day, and then when I go to bed I can't lie in any position where it isn't agony. I'm not sure what's wrong with it, but it's probably muscular, caused by poor posture when I'm working. I'm now very concious of how I'm sitting, but I don't know if I'm sitting right.

The RSI in my wrists seems to have gone away since I changed tables ...

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Comments Spammed Again

You must be getting bored with all this by now, but it only took them 4 days to get around the latest anti-spam measure. This means that spammer bots request a page, process it and submit that, rather than caching a solved form - not really surprising, but still worth testing.

So another change. Sorry Andrew, you'll have to change your greasemonkey script again :)

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New Chair, New Books, New Birthday

At the weekend I went out and bought a new chair from Staples. It's comfortable and I think I'm sitting in a good position. Only time will tell if it helps the shoulder thing, but so far so good.

I also went and ordered some books from Amazon last week. Tell me again why Amazon are so great? Their suggested page didn't suggest anything I wanted to get, and I had to leave the order process 4 times because they wouldn't let me move back to change things. They didn't tell me I'd be ...

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