I Hate Spam!!!
Posted by Kirk M on 29 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Blogging, Just Thinkin
You know, there’s enough things that you have to deal with on a day to day basis that will hold you up in one way, shape, form or another without having to deal with all those idiots out there smothering me with spam when I get home from work.
In the beginning it was just email. I could deal with that, and I never seemed to get many anyway. Now I can’t sit down at the end of the day to write up a simple post without first going into my Admin and wasting my time sifting through all the “spamments” in Akismet and Moderation (that’s thrown there by the “Simple Trackback Validator’ plugin) and getting rid of all of that spam from hell before I can even think about settling back and writing something. By the time that I get through dealing with all that spamosity I’m so downright disgusted that I forget what I wanted to post about in the first place. Like now for instance.
Thanks once again to Becky from Sprites and Bites, I now have another math style comment spam protector type plugin that plays well with the Wordpress Mobile Edition plugin I have for PDA viewing called Did You Pass Math?. No java this time so the simple comment math equation should show up in a PDA no problem now.
Now I have to establish a routine here for during the work week since I’ve gotten so popular with the spammer crowd. During the work week in the evening, before supper, I’m going to have to bang into my WP Admin and take care of all the spam wherever it may be hiding (rotten slime that it is) and then wait to post until after supper when I’m in a better frame of mind to write something decent instead of ranting. Also I need to write down the various ideas I come up with during the work day so when I get disgusted with all the spam it won’t drive those ideas right out of my head.
Actually, I should write these posting type ideas down anyway. I am male you know and I ain’t gettin’ any younger either.
Hopefully this will be the last plugin post for awhile. I can understand why the blog material has gone into this direction for the last couple, three weeks what with all the Wordpress versions that have been pushed out and all the compatibility problems bloggers have been experiencing with the latest WP 2.1 update. I should consider myself lucky in that aspect though since I’ve had relatively few upgrade problems with 2.1–the worst being the loss of my ‘UTW Re-tag Posts’ plugins which made tagging posts 100 times easier than doing it with the TinyMCE editor. UTW is a great plugin but assigning tags to a post(s) or trying to edit previously tagged post using only the WP Admin is a complete pain without that particular plugin.
Anyway, here’s hoping things will settle into somewhat more of a normal routine around here and I can start rambling around again. Sure would be nice for a change.
Everyone have a lovely night on me. Or day for that matter. Depends where you are you know. 
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on 31 Jan 2007 at 6:00 pm 1.becky said …
look on the bright side, these spammers like you enough to write to you. my spammers cannot even get my sex right and keep offering me penis extensions.
on 31 Jan 2007 at 7:30 pm 2.KirkM said …
Spam, spam, spam, spam, SPAAAMM! Wonderful SPAAAMM!
They prefer to offer me sexy lingerie for large women.