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Tue 2006-05-16

Hand-written comment spam

Filed under: — daniel @ 21:16

Amongst all the easy-to-spot robot comment spam, I’m getting a bunch that (at first glance) looks like it’s written by humans. Gone are the stupid out-of-context broken-English comments and links to drug sales. These all have comments that look like they’ve got a few milliseconds’ thought put into them, all on new posts, they all leave a rediffmail (Indian GMail-type operation) address, a 209.97. IP address, and a link to a web site featuring lots of links and no content.

So far I’ve been spiteful and kept the comments but wiped the URL link.

I wonder if they’re particularly targetting WordPress sites that haven’t yet been upgraded to use the NoFollow links.

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10 Things You Might Not Know About Google

Filed under: — josh @ 17:54

10 Things You Might Not Know About Google.

1. Google query syntax underwent some subtle changes over the years.

Yeah, I noticed that. All of a sudden you could negate terms (this and not that). The ten word limit was never a big one for me

5. Google has 16 official blogs.

If only I cared.

7. Google stopped counting their index size.

Hmmmm…. I think they didn’t, but did shut up about it. That the web got that big was scaring some people.

9. Google comic book search.

Oh, please.

10. Google Writely is a multi-user chat.

Collaborative word processor? That’s uber cool.

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AU copyright reforms

Filed under: — daniel @ 07:02

The AU government gets with the programme, proposes to make ripping CDs to MP3 players legal, as well as taping off radio or TV for domestic purposes… though you’ll be legally obliged to wipe the tape after watching it. Uh huh.

“Hey did you catch Monday night’s Six Feet Under?”

“Yeah but it’s on too late, so I taped it and watched it the next day.”

“Can you lend it to me?”

“I’d love to but the copyright laws say I’m not allowed to.”

Meanwhile the Brits have trained sniffer dogs to detect DVDs, for the purposes of fighting piracy.

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