Well, I threw that teaser out awhile back, promising some upcoming write-ups on things like GWT and Eclipse, but like always, things don’t go how I plan them.
Instead of my usual programming, I’ve taken a detour into the land of service orders, workflow, and process flows. I’ve been going to meetings, working on flowcharts, and generally not doing any programming.
Hopefully I’ll have something soon that’s interesting to talk about, since I know no one wants to hear about flowcharts. I sure don’t.
I wanted to mention, if you’re in the Quincy, IL area and are needing computer/networking/programming work done, I’m available at very reasonable rates. If your project is outside of my realm of knowledge, I probably know someone who IS knowledgeable in that area. Just contact me via email at jason@virtadept.com and give me a brief description of the work. If you would rather explain over the phone, just drop me an email with your contact information and a time that I can call.
I’ve had a couple comments lately to my blog that I found interesting. I don’t get a lot of traffic OR comments most of the time, so I tend to scrutinize those that I DO get.
Anyway, in both cases I had someone leave what appeared at first to be a legitimate comment. Nothing long and complicated, but short, to the point, and actually related to my posting. Both comments were accompanied by URL’s and emails addresses, and seemed to be from college-age girls.
So, always curious to know about my visitors, and also wanting to return the favor and maybe comment on their blogs, I visited their sites. Neither was what I expected. Nothing really pornographic, but definitely enticing pictures. Both claimed to be new websites, and all the links on their main page went to an images.php file. Again curious, I clicked on the links. Instead of images, I was redirected to Fling, a singles site.
Now, I don’t have any complicated anti-spam methods on my blogs. I use a simple captcha to weed out most automated stuff, and I moderate everything to keep it clean and on-topic. And, both of these comments DID contain on-topic content. So, I’ve got to assume that a real person is taking the time to sit and do this. The question is, why? Is Fling doing this themselves as a way to draw traffic? Is Fling paying these people per click-through to run these sites and post comments on random sites?
Either way, it’s an interesting evolution in the marketplace.
As for the two comments that I’ve seen, I pull them up and strip out the URL’s and emails. I don’t want to be a jump site to Fling.
Specifically AIM24000-48 cards. Will be installed into an IPD12000. AIM29000 cards not wanted – they tend to overheat and come close to catching on fire.
Net-to-Net was purchased by Paradyne, then Paradyne by Zhone. The AIM cards could be labeled as any of those 3.
Thanks!
Things never seem to go right at 1AM. If something is going to fail, that’s when it will happen. It’s when we’re typically the most worn-out, slow, careless…. that things give us problems. Luckily the problem I had tonight I had seen before so I knew how to fix.
Of course, then I spent another 10 minutes trying to fix an alarm that wasn’t really there. Reloaded the GUI management interface, and magically the alarm was gone. This is why I have never grown to like using GUI interfaces. They obfuscate what is really happening and provide it to you through filtered lenses.
Course, add onto that a spam report that called for adding an ACL to a firewall to log any further issues, and here it is 2AM. I’m wound up, so it’s time to BLOG!
Took a day off today to try and recover from this nasty sinus infection and cough that I’ve carried around this weekend. I’ve never been much of a programmer when my head is stuffed up solid or when I can breathe but I’m hopped up on sinus medication. I think I’ll be okay enough to [...]
So far so good with Digsby. No obvious problems, and the interface is maybe a little more appealing to me than Pidgin. One neat feature is that new messages that come in pop up for a few seconds in the corner of my screen, kinda like Outlook notices. If I want to respond immediately, I [...]
Trying something new today. Normally I use Pidgin for AIM and Jabber. I found out there is a plugin for it that will allow it to talk to Twitter as well. But, while I was finding that plugin, I ran across Digsby, a client app that supports Twitter by default, as well as other social [...]
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-survivor2-2009feb02,0,2184696.story As if that isn’t enough stress, I was unlucky enough during layoffs to work for the IT department. Among my tasks: 1) Prepare ahead of time to cut off system access to others in my department who were being laid off and didn’t know about it yet. 2) Escort ex-workers from HR to their [...]
There are scads of programming languages out there. Some are designed with something specific in mind, like HTML. Others are more general, meant to be tools for many uses. Perl is one such language. There are many people out there who love Perl because of it’s readability, it’s style, it’s “perlness”. What I think makes [...]
