I normally expend most of my writing words on challenges our customers and other engineers might face in their day to day design and layout activities. But not today. Today, it’s about a specific challenge faced by your typical blogger. Off and on for the last couple of weeks, I’ve come into work in the morning, opened up the blog and found three spammy comments. Here’s today’s three:
“Compare to the majority of the other blogs, your site tend to be so fantastic. Therefore nice to examining the post. If I’ve a probability, I would like to research along with you because I think that my potential haven’t yet achieved the excellent amount.”
“You may remember the three proverbs: Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep lone. Life is measured by thought and action not by time. Long absent, soon forgotten.”
“You may remenber [sic] the three proverbs: Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep lone. Life is measured by thought and action not by time. Long absent, soon forgotten.”
Now, it is a bit flattering to hear that my site tend to be so fantastic. Not just “fantastic,” but “so fantastic”! But perhaps the subject matter could be a bit more on topic. The author noted that if he have probability, he would like to research along with me. I could always use some extra help, but I don’t have any probability to pass on. Perhaps a call to Zaphod would be in order.
I’m not sure I agree completely with the second supposition. I’d bet that a lot of unemployed or underemployed folks are weeping right now. Probably enough that they could be considered to have a world weeping with them. I know I would. I’m also not sure what the deal is with the third one. That author just copied from the one above it. How rude.
All is not always as it seems though. After reading these this morning, I did as I always do and fed the three comments into my netlist confabulator. It turns out that the text in these three comments is actually a turbo-encoded form of the design of the Constellation spacecraft. If I had checked the IP address prior to marking the comments as spam, I wonder if I would have found that this is a desperate rocket scientist tying to smuggle his decade of work home before the lights go out and the servers get recycled.
Duane Benson
Have you got anything without spam?
Duane,
Has anyone looked into the virus/problem your webserver has? I’m getting re-directed to virus laden sites when clicking through links to your blog from Google. This is independent of the computer so I’m convinced it’s a problem on your server. You should have your web admin look into it. I’d left you emails/comments previously but never heard back.
Josh