Comment Spam
I got a single spam item in comments yesterday, and I noticed it. I also removed it as soon as I noticed it. I also knew that the flood would be coming soon. Once a spammer finds a site that accepts unauthenticated comments, then that site is in for a world of hurt. I thought that I had a week or so before I really had to start worrying about it.
Nope.
Starting at about 4 AM this morning, the floodgates opened. Over 200 comments were submitted from over 200 different IP addresses. This means someone got their zombie network to attack my blog. Since it was a distributed attack, I couldn’t just go into the firewall and block all access to all ports from a certain IP or IP range. I went into the anti-spam settings for my blog and turned them all on. I know that this will make it harder to leave me comments, but it’s a necessary thing in these days of the violent Internet.
You’ll now have to pass a CAPTCHA check to post a comment. I’m sorry about this, but it’s about the only thing that I can do.
Happy Birthday To Me
Happy Birthday To Me.
Happy Birthday To Me.
Happy Birthday Dear Beosig.
Happy Birthday To Me!
Yep. I’ve made it around the sun for the 34th time. Somehow it’s not that much different from the last several times I’ve done it. Of course, that’s all going to change in November with the arrival of the baby. Then I get to start counting someone else’s years that are more important than my own.
I opened my email this morning, and I had 5 birthday messages from people that I’ve bought stuff from in the past that had my email address and birthday on file. I think it’s kind of cool. I got emails from a local RPG/game store, Steve Jackson Games, VanDyke Software, RPGNet, and Borders. Very neat. I like the Borders one because they’re giving me 15% off of a book for my birthday, but the Steve Jackson Games one was especially neat. I’ve received it the past 3 or 4 years, but it still tickles me to read it. It goes:
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
The Illuminati are watching
Everything that you do
Fnord!
I just get a good giggle out of that every year that I see it.
Time to get back to work, so I can grow older while sitting at my desk typing away. Could be worse, eh?
