The scary thing is that I only got 90% on History! I actually did better at the pure fiction of the religious than ‘truth’ (well, relatively) of history. Now what does that say about me? (That was a rhetorical question, I don’t want to know.)
My ICT mock today contained a question on a company known as Doggytoys International. They used ‘videoconferencing’ in which, we were solemnly told, ‘webcams are very important.’ Hmmm… the company is called Doggytoys, it uses webcams… I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions.
Seems like someone at Edexcel has been having a bit of fun!
Comment spam, as I’ve found today, can be a real problem for blogs. I take a very strict attitude, I will never allow my blog to be hijacked in this way, and will manually delete every single piece of scum if I have to.
My first response this afternoon was to do just that, until I realised the attacks wouldn’t stop anytime soon. So next, I tried blocking specific IP addresses, first for posting comments, then for the whole site. This failed, because of the huge amount of addresses used by the enemy.
Next, I moved on to Comment Control, a Nucleus plugin. This solved the main problem, as every single comment now had to be moderated by me. The spammers have been defeated, but at the cost of a lot of my time.
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Well that’s some measure of success I suppose 
Sorry guys, but you’re not in luck, I delete all spam comments immediately and ban the IP ranges immediately. Intriguingly, this particular plague of bots from Japan post little historical quotes with each comment. Ahh… spam with class.
To conclude my mega-post from Thursday, TARDIS is the name of my new baby PC. (Wonderful sense of naming I have… PC1… PC2…PC3… and then TARDIS. In my defence, it’s not part of the network or the ‘official’ line of PCs in my house.)
Anyway, TARDIS isn’t exactly new. It’s been lent to me by Dave Cooper, the systems admin at school, along with Windows XP Professional, to prepare me for the MCSE 70-270 exam I’ll be doing soon in Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional. What’s really cool is that I have completely free reign to mess about with it as much as I want. Who cares if it breaks? I can always re-install the OS about 100 times.
I’m using the wonderful Remote Desktop feature to connect without having to pull out all the cables from PC3. Life is good…
Highly respected blogger Joel Spolsky has a link to Google Suggest on his blog today, and I’ve changed my home page to it already. Give it a go, it’s like Google with AutoComplete built it.
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
