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It’s been a year since I started to use Wordpress for this web-site. I originally started it as an outlet for funny things that I thought of writing and as a way of venting my anger generally. 2004 was a really bad year for things going wrong (don’t get me started!). So the idea of this site was just as an outlet for me and as a way to learn more about web/mail hosting, MySQL, PHP, HTML and CSS. That at least I’ve done. Also as a writing experience. I’ve occasionally been drawn to those ‘Make Squillions of Pounds by Writing Articles for Magazines’ advertisements in, you guessed it, magazines. But have always been stumped for subject matter. So using the ‘write what you know’ credo I started this site.

Recently, as the site has generated more traffic, I’ve started to receive attention from sploggers. Those scum sucking leeches who put fake comments against blog posts. At best they just use the form to put in one URL to a web-site. At worst they put in a vast list of links into the comment itself trying valiantly to up their Google Rank. I had Wordpress set-up so that all comments are moderated by me. You would think that someone spamming a post would check to see if the comment had made it onto the page before trying again. No, they just put the same shit against the same post over and over again before moving onto some other victim. Hell, I even fell for this little trick.

Wow this is a nice site. :0) I like the comments even though I don’t 100% agree with all of them. I am a grad student at the University of Sacred Heart in Connecticut. If you don’t mind I will use your blog as a example for my semester project that I am doing on the internet and ecommerce. If you reject the thought send me a quick email

-Corey

Isn’t that nice, someone wants to use my little old web-site as part of their project. The URL did look suspicious but I just thought that Corey was working for a student debt company to make a few bucks for study materials. Other people fell for the same trick too. Corey has been a busy boy. I only hope that all this web activity isn’t encroaching on his study time!

So, no more comments. If you need to contact me just use telepathy, I’ll get the message.