SimultaneitySeeking to bridge the extremes of life without establishing an averageTapping Out- August 7, 2007 My Blog has moved...(sort of) In the beginning it seemed like I was raising the white flag and saying that the spammers have won. But the more I thought about it, the truth is that they haven't won, I'm just not participating in the fight directly, I'm paying someone else to do it. I've moved my site from MovableType to LiveJournal because I have to many other things in my life that take priority to blogging and figuring out how to stop the next round of spam attacks. If you read my blog on...http://www.sillypuppies.com/jesse/blog/archives/web_design/20070807_tapping_out.asp Spammers 1 - Sillupuppies 0- August 4, 2007 Well, that's not really the score, we've both scored several in the never-ending battle to fight spam. But, I think the never-ending battle is nearing an end. I don't post as often as I used to so it makes it pointless to continue to fight. For now, I've turned off comments. Not because I don't care what you all think, but because I don't want my ISP shutting me down. More news from the front as it develops.http://www.sillypuppies.com/jesse/blog/archives/20070804_spammers_1_sill.asp Interesting XP Problem- August 3, 2007 I recently upgraded my laptop with another GB of memory, bringing the total to 2GB (thanks for the sale Best Buy!). A few days later, I started noticing that my laptop light was blinking after shutting down (I usually hibernate through pushing the power button). I've even stuck it in my bag thinking it was shut down to find it pretty warm when I pulled it out. Turns out there's some sort of problem with XP power manager finding a block of memory to hibernate if you have more than 1GB of...http://www.sillypuppies.com/jesse/blog/archives/neat_things_on_the_net/20070803_interestin... |