LucasH

I've been left with the hateful task of removing all the built up spam.

It's insane how much of it can build up in just two weeks! I have to say, it makes me so damn frustrated with the idiots who spam my blog, even though I know they are only doing it because they are paid to, and okay, sure, things are tough for a lot of people at the moment, but come on, stop spamming everyone! To those who pay people to spam blogs like mine, you are so petty, your advertising methods are pathetic, and you aren't going to sell your stinking prescription drugs and so on.

Gahhhh! I've not got a lot of energy in me at the moment, so to have to deal with all this spam is all the more irritating. I'm not just complaining over nothing, I've got over 200 spam comments to go through... that's an insane amount of spam, and now they are getting more stupid. They are these really dumb jokes with the links to drugs or crap just stuck at the bottom. For instance, and this is the latest spam comment I've gotten rid of as spam - there's about ten pages to go through, so I'm doing a little at a time - and this is a quote... "Fresh joke! What weighs 909 kg (2,000 pounds for all of you inefficient, non-metric “people”) and is bare to the bone? A skeleTON!!!"

Oh my goodness. Not only do I have to go and delete all this crap, I'm now subjected to some of the stupidest jokes I've ever heard. The only way these jokes could be anything less than crap is if they were told to you by a child still in single digits. They have a right to silly jokes, it's like their territory, but to have spammers leaving this stuff there is just... just too much.

Usually I feel the need to be somewhat polite to these people, to be appreciative of the fact that they probably only do this job because they've not been able to get something better paying, but I'm sick and that gives me the right to be a grouchy... So... spammers, get the effing hell off of my blog!

Yeah, that's right, you suck! I use hotmail for all my non-work stuff, because I've done it for a long time, and I'll continue to for a long time. I'm a bit of a fanboy, and I started on Hotmail a long time ago, so that's the way it stays.

I got a comment on my blog from someone who said that they had seen the site on Technorati, so I went over and decided to join up – looks like an awesome site, actually! – and ‘claim’ my blog. All was going well, save having to find a user name took a few tries, until it got to verification time. There was a little message at this point saying if you didn’t get the message, check this FAQ. Over I went, thinking smugly that I was just filling in time, that my email account wasn’t one of those frustrating ones which wouldn’t let this process occur, nooooo, of course not!

I have a Hotmail account that I use for all non-work stuff. The company I work for have a very strict policy about non-work related emails, it’s insane. Anyway, because I’ve had this Hotmail account for about eight, nearly nine, years, I don’t much fancy using anything else. Seems fair enough, right? Anyone notice how the free Hotmail accounts stopped giving you the option to ‘block’ some time ago? Well, I get a heck of a lot of spam and phishing scam emails as a result, and I can deal with that, at least they still go to the Junk box.

But this verification email is just gone, lost, never to be seen in my Inbox, and I’m really annoyed. I wanted to join this site, but now the chances of that seem rather diminished. All I can hope is that some nice person will read this, and post me the email address the verification link comes from, so I can add it in Hotmail as a contact, and then I’ll get the email! So that’s still really annoying, but nice to know people are reading my blog!