i’m kind of scared to post anything to this here weblog anymore as i’ve been repeatedly raped by comment spammers. at the height of the degradation, i had over 650 comments in less than twelve hours. i’ve since deleted them all and disabled comments on most of the entries i’ve written in the last two years. i feel like i’m just asking for more pillaging by even typing a single character in this little box, but, oh well. i have the urge to purge and this is where i do it best. or something. it’s probably just that i needed more than 140 characters to properly update and disseminate.
have i mentioned how much i love (and hate) twitter?
about the comment spam, i guess it means i need to upgrade my cms. i’m not at all inclined to do so, especially since it looks as if wordpress is the route i’m being forced to take. i can’t find any really good spam filter plug-ins for movable type (my current platform of choice). at this point, just the thought of having to migrate makes me want to hide under my bed with all the dustbunnies and hairballs.
what happened? ten years ago, i loved nothing more than to sit and fiddle with my blog layout and tweak settings until i couldn’t tweak no more. now? i’d happily pay someone in creme brulee to do it all for me, while using a a stock template, to boot!
anyhoo, that’s just one reason why i’ve been loathe to post anything. it seems like it’s not worth the eventual hassle. if i haven’t mentioned it, twitter is the other, duh.
i’m upset that autumn seems to be broken this year. my favourite trees in Grand Boulevard Park skipped their fabulous brilliant reds & yellows by going straight from green to dead. i think it was probably the crazy-dry summer followed by the biblical amounts of rain we got over the course of a few weeks in September. i look forward to them turning shades of fire every fall. *sniff* sad christmas.
did you know that if you don’t pay attention, you can spend a lot of money on relatively nothing in a very short period of time? i should have just bought myself something big, in one fell swoop, with my lottery winnings rather than nickel & dime it to death with not much to show for it. there’s still a little left, and i think i’ll invest in a memory upgrade for McGillicuddy — i get the beachball of death & the other day, Excel actually crashed with an “out of memory” error.
i’m not going to write anymore right now for two reasons:
1. maybe i’ll come back again soon; and,
2. i don’t want to spoil you. you’re needy enough already. ;)
p.s. i’ll leave comments open until the first spam comment gets left on this entry. then, i’ll get a gun and go on a rampage.