Quick Blurbs
Well, we are in finals season here at the good 'ol BYU... which means I am in the middle of the end of (perchance) the worst semester of schooling I have ever taken of schooling, EVER.
However, at this writing, I am down one test with three more to go... one of which will be done this evening the other two tomorrow morning sometime (as I get to spend a large chunk of the night studying... and possibly in the morning as well) so that I can do better than I am currently expecting. We will see how that goes.
One gripe I have, though, is the idiots who decide to use my comments section (on this website) as a place to spam the world. My previous entry already had a spam comment posted to it and so, as has become my M.O. now, I turned off comments on that post. What do these people think they are accomplishing? I mean, most blogging software knows how to filter out spam. Sure, some get past the filter, and that is annoying, but the majority of spam related comments are filtered into a different folder and deleted. One would think that anyone who has visited my site and decided to start the spamming process would've bothered to look at the (nearly) 900 entries I've made over the years and then decided against adding my blog to their list. Apparently, however, the idiots in the world have not realized that I am going to delete all comments and block commenting on various posts (and on the whole site if it becomes too much of a pain just as I did trackbacks) if it becomes too much of a pain in the patookas.
On top of that, there has been an increase in the amount of SPAM I receive in my personal email inbox where people have "found" my site and either determined that I should link to them and they will write me original content (what the *bleep*); or that my site is not visible to or on the major search engines (quick lesson (skip to end of parenthesis if you don't want to know this): there are three major search engines that generate almost all internet traffic and most all other search engines use these three to some extent or another; they are: Google, MSN, and Yahoo! and of those three the third one may loose its autonomy in the very near future making two major search engines while the first generates for more search results than the other two combined). And that they can list me for a fee or create content if I will add a link to my site for them.
The last person who offered to create content for me was rather rudely informed that he is an idiot and didn't bother to look at my site given that this site (www.sw-c.com) is written solely by me (though I have offered other people room to post rebuttals or opinions - actually a standing offer, in case anyone was curious) and that what he had as a website was not of any interest to me and searching or reading my blog at any point in its four year history would show the person that I would not be a good resource for him. Truth told, he was trying to generate a better search ranking and as I rank #1 in the search terms I desire to be #1 and in the top 10 on secondary terms, and in the top 30 on tertiary terms, well... the offer was rather idiotic on his part.
And I told him so. Nor was I nice about it.
Sure, living on the internet makes one vulnerable to spam. It is a part of the interweb life. However, I can be sick of it and I can be frustrated by it. And truth told, I am sure that as I build links and popularity to my sites this will only get worse.
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