I’d love to see the hidden “disable trackbacks entirely, fucking forever, NOW goddamn it” option that Wordpress ought to have but I can’t find. Bad enough I get all this comment spam because I’m too lazy to install a CAPTCHA plugin, but now I get trackback spam. Nice to know that a useless system to further enable the automatic counter-fellation all bloggers seem to engage in is being used for the sole purpose of adding spam to the comments section of a site next to nobody reads. (And since I don’t use the “More” tag often, if ever, there’s no reason to actually click through to the articles, hence nobody sees your goddamn spam, assholes.) I guess I have to dig further into the archives and manually turn talkbacks off on more posts. Yay.

I wonder if Spam Poison is still around… Regardless of if it works (I think it does, but I have no real proof), I get a very fulfilling sensation of pure unbridled malice at the thought of even potentially fucking up their little spam spiders. (Ostensibly, the link code they give you, and maybe any link back to Spam Poison, will send the spiders that way, as spiders are wont to do. Their server then detects spam spiders somehow, and sends them a different page than we see, full of complete garbage data, with links back to itself or pages much like it. This apparently jacks the signal to noise ratio of the spider’s lists up somewhere way past anything even remotely usable. Again, I don’t have anything but their word that it works, but it seems to have worked on the old brimzero homepage, when my email was listed in full after every newspost.

Oh, look at that, I’ll be late for work if I don’t leave within the next sixty seconds, assuming traffic is good. Pretty sure the spammers won this particular battle. (Then again, I had somewhere between one and three separate dreams where I was doing something and ended up being late for work, and I’d hate to let a portent like that turn out to be false, as the rest of my dreams centered around the book Interworld, and it would be cool as hell if that came true too.

Oh look, I’ve now got thirteen minutes to make a minimum twenty minute trip. Upon identifying a problem, it’s good to know I swiftly do nothing to resolve it. I did add a new tag, which applies to 90% of the shit I write here. That count for anything?