Sunday Peeves
Flames Record:
With last night’s win over the Canucks, the Flames have a 9-game home ice winning streak, tying a franchise record achieved on four previous occasions. The only good news is that, if they do set a new record, it will be on the backs of the visiting Minnesota Wild Tuesday night. That wouldn’t make me cry.
VCOE Spam Boredom:
This website receives a minimum of 500 spam comments a day. Usually of the freakish-sexual variety, but occasionally of the buy-my-drugs variety. Regardless, there’s not enough real variety overall. If you spammer-freaks are going to keep making me read and delete this crap, give me something new. Anything.
The Blogspot Exclusive Club:
Many, many people who maintain hockey blogspot blogs have been converting their blogs lately, making it so that only other blogspot users (not me) can comment. Presumably this is NOT to prevent comment spam since that can be achieved with “word verification”. Maybe you just don’t want me (and many others) to comment on your work? Perfectly understandable in reference to me, but maybe a stupid idea in general.
Tony Gallagher:
He wrote another column today. Why must he keep doing that?
Christmas:
It’s already December 10th. Wow. Only two weeks left. For people with no life, here’s some help. (Personally, I was turned off as soon as I saw the word “list”…)
December 10th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
I can’t believe you haven’t gotten any Nigerian scam spam yet. They won’t leave me alone!
For Christmas I don’t have any lists at all, let alone an entire book full of them. Now I feel dreadfully inferior.
On the plus side, I feel much less stress during the holidays than a lot of people. A couple gifts for my family members, a wreath on the door, and wads of small bills and loose change for Salvation Army bell ringers, and I’m all set.
December 10th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
Oh, the Nigerian scam-spam is saved for my email. And I get quite a lot of that too. Frankly, I almost enjoy the Nigerian scammers. They’ve come up with some very original stories over the years.
That Christmas link is sick. The chick keeps a book of this stuff? Good God. I like giving gifts to people, but Christmas is a bit pressured. Makes me understand why there is such a thing as “Professional Shoppers” in the world.
December 10th, 2006 at 8:25 pm
I really like Typepad’s spam filter…I get very, very little. I think in the year I have had my blog, I’ve been spammed maybe 4 times. Seriously.
Err…maybe that’s cuz nobody reads my blog in the first place…but, hey, it still makes me feel good.
As for Blogspot…they suck. Period. ’nuff said.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Jaro Balastik is on waivers and the Canucks just sit on their hands. $*(# Nonis!
December 11th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
Expat – Typepad’s filter is supposed to be very good — I’m sure it’s catching a lot of stuff for you. My own system uses Akismet and it’s incredible. Only a half-dozen spam comments have ever actually made it onto the blog since I got it. However, it allows me to browse the spam at my server before deleting, and I try to do that to ensure that no legitimate comments get killed.
Blogspot is a pain compared to what I have now, but I’m grateful they exist. I never would’ve started this blog without them!
Jes –
“Jaro Balastik is on waivers…”
What part of that phrase makes it hard to understand why Nonis is ignoring him?