Today, some dickweek spammer dumped over 600 comment entries into my blog, advertizing a casino ... so I've spent all day upgrading and modifying the blog so that you now have to sign up and be trusted in order to post comments.
Oh.. well, that was after I banned the 175 IP addressed he was using to spam me, and after manually deleting the 600+ comments... what a loser!!!!!!
Anyway, what's going to happen now, is that you'll have to sign up for a TypeKey account - all this is, is a trusted middle-man (in this case, the company that makes my blogging software) and then after you're authenticated once, I get an email to aprove your account, and from then on, you can post all you want, just like the olden-dayz ... except this time, it only takes a username and password... you don't have to type in an email address and URL any more - so it'll actually save everybody time in the long run... well, you have to setup your profile once in TypeKey, THEN you save time.
Sorry for the inconvenience, but NOT having this system just cost me a days work, so if this prevents losers like today's Mo-Fo, then I'll be happy.
See what a chore it is keeping up this blog??? And y'all thought it was just typing off the top of my head and scanning pictures, didn't ya...
Oh - PS : Please, everybody - just post a comment on this entry right now, so that you get signed up, and I can aprove everyone once. Just say "Hi." - then we can put all this behind us. THANKS!!!
Posted by Calvin at October 19, 2004 06:10 PMHi from Calvin !!!
Cool - TypeKey remembers you, so you DON'T even have to login each time... even quicker!
yoyo this is neet
Posted by: vetiver at October 19, 2004 07:15 PMAwesome - thanks Como for being #1 !!!!
Glad it worked!
i signed up twice...yay for me
Posted by: vetiver at October 20, 2004 10:12 AMWhy'd you sign up twice?
Posted by: Calvin at October 20, 2004 10:24 AMHi!
Posted by: Carole at October 20, 2004 12:12 PMi signed up the first time and didn't realize that i needed to check my email first...so when i tried to sign in and it wouldn't let me i thought maybe i spelled something wrong or my password was wrong...
so i signed up again with a different email...which i check today and figured that since i some times use vetiver and sometimes vetiverjones it couldn't hurt to use both...i can't go wrong this way
Wow for sure! You saw some pretty awesome territory. We have no idea just how vast this province really is until we do some driving!
Too bad about the work required to correct the idiot postings! but at least now you are free of them.
Good job. Looking forward to the rest of the story!
Hi, Calvin...
Posted by: paladane at October 25, 2004 06:49 PM