Laurabelle’s Blog

This has to be spam, but the purpose escapes me. The words in brackets are substitutions I made, in order to protect the inboxes and the eyes of the innocent. From: "rescyou@[somedomain].net" <rescyou@[somedomain].net> To: debian-user@[thisdomain].org Subject: you piece of [crap] Date: 24 Apr 2005 18:22:35 -0000 [Screw] off and die, you piece of [crap]. It just makes you feel all warm [...]

It seems that Jeff and I have gotten pretty good at miscalculating the weather for our hikes. We didn’t think it was going to rain when we went to Lower Lena Lake, and we didn’t think it was going to be that snowy or rainy at Mount Rainier either. The same problems plagued our hike [...]

I was poking around on the Web today (trying to figure out how to clean up some of the gunk that is filling up my C: partition without reinstalling WinXP) and found this article entitled When good interfaces go crufty. I'm not sure that I completely agree with the article I disagree with almost all [...]

Well, I knew it was going to happen eventually. The Trackback spammers have finally found my weblog. They left fifteen little spams over the last three days, and I found it rather ironic that my last entry about fighting spam got more spam-pings than any other. This minor deluge of spam has at last prodded [...]

This morning I received a spam that rates higher than normal for stupidity. It rates above even the septic-tank spam of a few years ago (though what do I know about septic tanks?) This spam wasn't peddling drugs or large penises or nekkid wimmin. No, it was offering tech support for Solaris servers.

The next Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, is not due out until June or July (I forget which). KCLS is buying more than 400 copies. There are already more than 1,300 holds. I am number 1,282.