Looks like Dubai is going to become the holiday destination of choice for building enthusiasts and curious structural engineers. They are shortly to begin building a stupidly tall building and by stupidly tall I mean 5 meters short of half a mile…
Now I don’t know about you but that is actually a scary figure to be associated with hight!
To be completed in 2008, so I know where I’ll be going on holiday sometime after that!
I’ve just finished reading the rather interesting, if quite long, article called The way we eat now. It’s all about the increasingly alarming ‘fat’ epidemic hitting the USA. It’s from the harvard magazine so it’s from the American perspective. If you’ve got a free half-hour I’d recomend it as an informative read, if you don’t have half an hour free, well make time damnit, its not like reading this is mega important!
Anyway, one of my thoughts from reading this is that the general British and European opinion which goes along the general lines of ‘Yeah fat Americans, they deserve what they get’. This opinion is worryingly short sighted, simply for the reason that the figures seem to point out that we are rapidly following the same road to potential disaster.
I am in a fortunate position in that I don’t have any kind of health problem, and neither do any of my friends (and coincidentaly the majority of my readers…:P ) but it’s still something that I find concerning for the general population.
Live healthy people, it may not be cool in some cases, but then again neither is being really, really fat.
p.s. No spam today, I’m trying not to get my hopes up too early.
Well I decided to do a bit more about comment spamming when I was greeted by 195 comments that needed moderation due to being caught by the blacklist plugin, so I’ve added a very cool little plugin (which isn’t so cool to install) which may, with luck, quell the uprising.
The most annying thing about the spam is the fact that the links don’t actually go to a real site, so its just a rather massive waste of time. Makes me pretty angry and the only words to describe the people that do this rhymes with bucking fastards.
Anyway, hopefully the authimage plugin will come to my rescue. Damn clever little thing if it actually works 🙂
It seems that the ‘make love not spam’ site was only suffering a temporary glitch and is now back up and running again!
If you can’t install the screensaver (please do, its great!) there’s an ‘annoy a spammer’ button on the site, so you could just sit and click that for five minutes a day…
Every little helps!
Well people still insist on putting comment spam on my little blog here, not quite sure why they bother to be honest, it’s only the posts that are about a month old or more that they spam, and no-one reads them (I assume).
It is quite irritating as they keep changing the URL that they use to post so my blacklisting plugin constantly needs updating.
I’d like to try finding or writing some kind of whitelist plugin, but I don’t have the time right now.
Still, everything else is good, very good infact 🙂
Well the Make love not spam website seems to be down for whatever reason and the screensaver no-longer seems to work. Whether this is becasue the makers took it down due to legal reason or the spam sites fought back we may never know…
I only had one day of anti spam battling, bit of a disappointment in the end.
I am now the proud installer of the make love not spam screensaver by lycos. The idea of this is very appealing, when your computer goes into screensaver mode, it will make random requests to sites that are advertised by spam. The idea being to completely cain their bandwidth. Figures are something along the lines of 8MB of bandwidth consumed per screensaver, so if enough people get the screensaver these sites with their less than agreeable advertising techniques will have to pay for gigabytes of bandwidth per day.
Hopefully they’ll get the message and stop using spam mail.
Rise up! Gentle reader, fight the terror of spam!
Well as you have probably noticed, I haven’t blogged for fecking ages. I’d like to think this is for a damn good reason, and in a way it is:
I’ve been damn busy with stuff, and when I get home hanging out with housemates keeps me away from the computer (not a bad thing in my book!).
So lets update as to what I’ve been upto; I went to Cambridge last weekend and met with Andy and Greig, which was a very enjoyable weekend, also got to see Vorn again (which is always good) and somehow offended my back. You may be wondering what I mean by offended… we it’s kind of a very very minor injury, to the upper back. I think it happened when I slept on Greigs hardwood floor when a bit drunk. Its a strange sensation, its a bit like having a stitch but between my shoulders, but not all the time, only if I twist or have to breath very deeply. So anyway, hopefully that’ll fix itself in time. I also managed to insult my lower back at breakdancing on tuesday so I am being fairly careful about sitting and lying and the like.
I can’t have another guitar lesson until the new year now, which is a bit dissapointing but at least I have a good book to try and work through now!
Hosemates are getting stressed with end of term shows and stuff, and I’m in an end of term show too which is a bit scary, doing some breakdancing. Hopefully I’ll do a better job than my last dancing show effort (bit of an in-joke for you there).
But life is pretty good, I’m certainly not complaining at being busy!
I’m hoping to apply for a new job by the end of this weekend, and I’m off to meet Matt in London tonight… those two objectives are slightly opposed but hopefully I’ll manage it!
Well I’d better sign off, got many things to do!!
In my previous post I talked about Lemsip and to find that list of symptoms they ‘help’ you with I had a quick look at their website; while closing down the page after finishing my post I noticed the tag line to their main page:
Let’s get on with life
To be quite honest my immediate response to that attitude is ‘No, let’s sit down and be sensible’ quickly followed up by ‘Get to bed’.
Just thought I’d share that with you 🙂
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