I saw a t-shirt today that was at least to my mind designed for the younger crowd that is more in touch with what is going on in today’s world. But it was really a nicely conceived t-shirt slogan as it could easily be taken in more than one way. I’m sure you will “get” the shirt… it reads:

get out of my space

You may have seen this already, but it’s just too good not to share:

Lottery winner uses stolen credit card, loses winnings…

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The word for today: obfuscated.

To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand

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Response time 20 days.

It has been nearly that long since I’ve posted here. I’ve been launching another blog related to my “real job” and that’s taken some time away from phpBB work over the past few weeks. You can never have enough blogs, right?

I started the phpBBDoctor.com site several years ago (April, 2005-ish). It’s still not live. I started the blog about a year later because I felt like I wanted to talk about things but wasn’t really ready to open up the forum to public access yet. The first few blog posts were mainly about the blog itself. Over time the biggest topics have probably been my series about the phpBB search algorithm, various anti-spam techniques, and some stuff about MODs being written / released at phpbb.com.

Maybe I’ll have the Doctor board launched before I write the second anniversary blog post.

Or maybe not.

I read a recent article in Discover magazine that said there were nearly 60 million blogs currently online, and about 175,000 new ones each day. They already did the math (I didn’t check it, I assume it’s correct ) that says that’s a new blog starting every half a second.

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The server logs report IP Addresses used to visit this site. My comment/spam process has started logging the IP address as reported by the server. My question is this: is it possible to spoof that data? Meaning, is it possible that the IP addresses that are recorded by this process are wrong?

This from someone who owns a dog and is owned by two cats. Just found it amusing today, hope you like it even if it is old.

How To Give a Cat a Pill
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I continue to analyze the blog comments that get caught by Akismet and look for patterns that I can use. One of the very common patterns is, of course, the huge number of links, and I’m working on an idea for that. Another thing I have noticed is that a large number of blog comments post their links in both html and bbcode format. I can use that.

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It’s true, I am. I don’t like to talk about it much, given the rampant anti-AOL sentiment that seems to be the opinion du jour… mainly because I don’t feel like I should have to defend myself for my choice. I actually joined in 1993, and have been a member ever since.

The initial reason that AOL was the right answer for me is no longer valid. And AOL seems determined to do whatever it can to encourage me to leave. Like their latest effort of adding their advertisements to my email messages. Before you ask, this post will not have a single thing in it related to phpBB, so you can stop reading here if you want.

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