Recently the food here at school has been VERY, VERY salty indeed. I usually like my food rather bland, so I endured it for as long as I could.
Last night, fairly hungry, I queued and waited for dinner. After the dishes finally arrived, it was grub of the glob variety and I was immediately put off and left before they could dish me any. Besides, it looked like one of the notoriously salty offerings. This term they have new kitchen staff, the majority, it seems, not having been kitchen staff before.
So anyway, believe it or not, I went to KFC, where the food was less salty. Sure, the nutrition value dipped close to zero (not exactly a health diet), but at least, following dinner, I didn’t feel like I had survived a week at sea without fresh water, the feeling I’ve recently had after dinner in the dining hall. Sure I was still hungry, but I filled up with a bottomless coffee and was set.
If the high salt content continue in the dining hall, I might just have to cook for myself *gasp*. Yes, it will be torture at first, but now that I have no evening classes, it might just be one of those creative things I could do to relax myself.
Moving on to something that has left an equally bad taste in my mouth, is the recent spate of Filthy Spam Attacks that my poor, useless site has had to endure. I really don’t understand the logic Filthy Spammers use.
First, it was just referrer spam, because this blog came with a feature that automatically generated a list of sites who referred visitors here. Easy to solve, I thought, I removed the list, so nobody could see who referred who here.
But did the referrer spam stop? No. The only place where you can now see who is referring, is in the log file accessible only to the administrator. So nobody can access it anywhere, it goes completely and utterly unnoticed, and you’d think there’s no incentive to waste any further resources on this. Clearly those Filthy Referrer Spammers are amoebas, because they still hit this site about 400 times a month. Idiots.
I’ve made peace with those particular excrement of the Internet society, because I’m certainly not going to waste as much time trying to stop them as they are trying to somehow (only they know how) promote their penis enlargers, Viagra pills, and gambling sites though my site. If only they knew that they are the only people who generate traffic to this site.
The other vulnerability of my site has been the comments. I left it open, for anyone to comment, and in the 7 month existence of this site there has only been two comments. Yah! Until about 3 days ago, that is.
Suddenly Rokko, Arnie, Erin and some other well trained monkeys from a Filthy Spammer Sweatshop in South Korea (according to arin.net’s resolution of the IP Addresses) started abusing my comments. But so obvious, because they would type blatant lies, like “I loved the useful information”, “Your site is well designed”, “Your information helped me a lot”, blah blah, and then leave their Filthy Spammer URL in the message.
On day one I just removed the comment links, thinking that if the Filthy Spammer Monkey couldn’t click on the link, the Filthy Spammer Monkey would go away. But clearly these Filthy Spammer Monkeys went to Filthy Spammer Monkey College, because they just manually typed the PHP URL which still took them to the comment box.
Well, I’m a 3 brain celled monkey myself, and have now just disabled the entire comment system. So hopefully this pack of Filthy Spammer Monkeys will go scratch for peanuts somewhere else.
Not like any real people were leaving comments anyway, so I won’t even miss that feature.
Die, Filthy Spammers! Die!
Of course, there are gazillions of websites out there, with each webmaster as interested in their stats as the next.
We now know that referral spam is targeted at those gazillions of webmasters. With a gazillion webmasters seeing referrals from spambots, probably the same percentage as people opening Spam emails, click on those links to see where they go and obviously, percentage wise, it still pays off to do it.
Spammers use spambots, likely botnets (your computer, after it got infected with some trojan that downloaded software which enlisted your PC with the Borg), so it's no effort for Spammers at all.
But 3 years later my mantra is still the same: Die Spammers, Die!