Symphonious

For about the first time ever I actually looked at the MT activity log for this blog.  It’s interesting to see the massive amount of spam I’m blocking with MT-Blacklist - between 50 and 100 comments or trackbacks blocked every day.  The HTML entity block (which is now modified to block the use of numeric HTML entities for the letters e and o only due to it blocking too many trackbacks before) is by far and away the most effective - hopefully not too many of the things it’s blocking now are actual ham.  Please let me know if you think you’ve been blocked inappropriately.

I also turned off commenting on the City of Heros post from way back as I’m sick of stupid comments for 1337 kiddies.

Most interestingly though, someone went off searching for my resume today (or at least a blog entry that mentioned resume).  It appears to be a dynamic IP distributed by Covad.net, so I assume it’s one of their DSL customers.  It’s got me intrigued - I wonder what they were up to….  It occurs to me that doing a Google search for Resume should turn up a whole bunch of accurate information that would be useful for spammers but I’m not sure it would be worthwhile specifically searching MT installations.

For the record, my resume isn’t actually online.

Apparently in Britain, cartoon frogs are allowed to have genitals - assuming of course they don’t refer to them in a sexual manner.  This is obviously a great triumph for free speech in Britain and I’m sure the mobile phone ringtones the frog advertises would have been devastated if the frog had been void of genitalia.

It is however somewhat concerning that:

Five parents said they were embarrassed by questions their children had asked.

It’s a shame to see 5 parents messing up that learning opportunity for their children.  Perhaps in the future the birds and the bees will be explained using (apparently not particularly well endowed) frogs instead.

Television adverts of the motorcycle-riding Crazy Frog, who is drawn with a broad smile and a tiny penis, run frequently on British television, amusing, baffling and annoying viewers.

I’m sure the frog wasn’t so excited about being represented with such a small pecker either.

Either way, frogs throughout the british empire are breathing a sigh of relief tonight and uncrossing their legs.