I’ve about had it with spammers, now. I don’t know what more I can do to prevent them from posting their inane spam comments on my blog without making everyone register (which I don’t want to do). All I know is that I shouldn’t have 172 IPs blocked from my site… each one a confirmed spammer, drives me insane! Argh!
Okay, that’s all… just wanted to shout about it. Are there any good spam solutions out there for blogs? Or am I stuck doing this the way I am… one spammer at a time?
I’ve updated the blog to WordPress 2.02 today…. it shouldn’t affect anything, but as always, if you see any bugs, please contact me (or comment in here). Thanks!
Whoo!! Today was Cleaning Day at work, and I got a bunch of odd things to bring home. First of all (since I’m sure you don’t work with me), Cleaning Day is the one day each year we can dress casual and essentially spend the day cleaning our work areas. Well, my boss is the third IT manager to be in his office and finally decided to clean it all out and I was handed any software he planned on getting rid of. While most of it was pointless things like Gateway Driver CDs, I did manage to find some interesting CDs that I may just sell off to those of you who like them. A quick example, I have a sealed Windows 98 Disc w/ serial (never used) and a Windows NT 3.51 CD. Yeah, a nice odd mix of stuff, and I just don’t know what to do with it. E-bay? NeoBay? Send a random CD with donations to my Gift Fund? Who knows.
Anyways, I needs to get back to cleaning… feel free to comment with what you think I should do with all of these CDs. 
Oh, on a side note… for those of you who want to comment, you don’t have to be a member of my blog to do so. Just click where it says “No Comments” (or the number of comments) , then under “Leave a Reply”, just fill out your name, e-mail addy, website (if you want, not required) and your comment. Then click “Submit”. It’s as easy as that! 
…and I feel like we don’t have enough time. :S So close, yet so far away… we still have to finish cleaning the house, do the laundry, pack, show Jess’ dad how to feed our fish, get an oil change, etc.
I wish I had thought ahead and had requested today off. That way I could have been at least helping get stuff done, rather than sitting here trying to figure it all out. Luckily we got a lot done between last night and this morning. The cats are at the vet (they also board animals), the last of our X-mas shopping has been done, I got most of the programs I need for the computers downloaded, I got the laptop charged, etc.
Okay, enough with all my pre-vacation worries… let’s see, what else is going on around the house? Jess is having me redo her blog, since she likes the way mine turned out (it will be similar to mine, but not exact)… so that should be done later today. Since we’re talking about blogs, I updated to WP 2.0RC3… very very nice! It took only about 2 min to setup, and another 4 to redo some custom settings! I love a lot of the new features, so if you’re thinking about upgrading, go for it!
Now then, onto the fish (and fishlike creatures)… Levi has eaten about half of his old shell, so I can stop wondering about that. When we get back I’ll have to take some new pictures of him… he’s gotten quite large. The Bettas are still doing fine, though I worry about their water while I’m gone. I’ve been doing 50% water changes every 2-3 days or so, and we’ll be gone about 5. I’ll have to test it when I get home and see how bad it is (I last changed it on Sat Morning, so it’s been 4 days), hopefully it won’t be that bad so I don’t have to worry about them. The other fish are also doing fine… the Corries have gotten quite big, and are doing great. The only fish I worry about in there are the Glo-Fish™. They have the tendancy to chase each other around and I don’t really know why they do it. I’ll have to do more research on it.
And last (but not least), the cats. We checked them out before we left this morning… Kisa’s eye is doing much better with the eyedrops, and Mishka is doing good as usual… let’s hope they come back from the vet that way (last time Kisa came back with worms, ugh!).
Okay, that’s about all the time I have for now, need to get back to work. Feel free to talk about your upcoming holiday vacations… hopefully they’ll be great! Next post will either be from FL, or when I get back (hopefully I’ll have some new pics for my gallery)!
Another update, with Neowin v.4 approaching, I decided to focus more on the new graphics for that, rather than my new blog. Don’t worry, don’t worry… it’ll get done when it gets done. Now then, who wants some juicy Neowin tidbits? Okay, here’s some info for you:
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Okay, that’s all you get for now! I hope that can hold you over!