Archive for December, 2007
More new headers
This time of year, it should be Winter, although the temperatures outdoors do not exactly lead you to believe so.
It’s about 8 degrees Celsius right now, and I thought it would be a nice idea to put some new wintery headers in place.
So here they are, 9 new additions. See them all, including the old ones on my headers-page!
Best wishes for a brand spanking new 2008!
I would really like to wish everyone I know, and everyone who knows me a wonderful next couple of festive days and the very best for the upcoming year!
Greetings from a wintery, because cold, location in the south of Zuid-Holland.
Too obvious and cheesy, but hey: you know me
Winter photopost
Below an assortment of pictures taken, some with my phone, some with a real camera, of wintery scenes.
Enjoy!
Edit: pictures are moved to full-view only.
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More spam-related fuss
Since a couple of days I’ve been noticing an increase in spam-comments. Historically ranging from the infamous penis enlargements to comments telling my how to buy cheap medication, spams have been pretty straightforward.
Usually, a spam comment exists of several links, very little text and all sorts of different spellings and synonyms of the words medication, penis and bigger. This typical buildup makes it really easy to automate spam-deletion, which a plugin I previously mentioned can do for me while I’m doing other things.
Until now. I’ve had a dozen of spam-comments already with text that is very hard to determine to be a spam. These additions have, until now, been comments on the fact the author is bored and has nothing to do but comment on my blog. Luckily, the blogentry that is commented on is unrelated to the comment, and thus easier to detect.
Unfortunately for me, and you all, is that this detection has to be done manually, which leaves the comments (undetected) on my blog for some time. Therefore, I would like to apologize for any inconvenience beforehand, as the comment often links back to dodgy sites offering or forcing malicious software to the visitor. Please do not click anything not coming from me, or any of the registered users here.
From a very dark workplace, I would like to wish you all safe browsing these last few days of 2007
Short thesis-update
Since it already is the 18th of December, I’m telling you, my precious readers, the thesis is nearing completion.
There still are major loads of work to do, and since my thesis coordinator at the university (again) is away for some time next week it’ll be a mad dash to the end.
Wish me luck here, at least I’ve rested well last weekend during a short break.