I’ll have to think about that.

And actually, I threw them in as a reference to aforesaid book Good Omens, where a specific one is used as an example of mid-range evil planning. A particular good example, at that.

Wheels within wheels, my friend.

For another example, I also threw it in as an homage to the Blue Oyster Cult song, Shadow of California, on the Revolution By Night album.

Ever sense, I’ve pulled groups with a quarter turn so that they are facing their shoulder to the healer. It gives me an L shaped pull with me and the healer as the ends and the mobs as the elbow. I prefer this because it lets the healers outrange mob spells without getting too far away from me the way a straight line pull with the mobs in the middle does. Cheers and I look forward to the day you give it another go. Wait till the juice comes back, don’t force it : )

P.S. Wesley Snipes: Demolition man, if only for Bullock in a cop uniform that incorporates skin tight happy pants but don’t forget that nod to the virtual sex scene from Barbarella.

I think it’s time to try it. Beyond just the safety aspect, from what the website you linked to says, it’s a WYSIWYG editor, and I’d dearly love a way to get better looking posts. WordPress, the version I’m using, just does NOT have a robust style editing feature. It’s miles better than the html I used to code by hand in blogspot, but it’s still not right.

Wow.

Okay, mayb I need to go back to school, because that one actually wasn’t an intentional grammar messup like I usually do. I didn’t catch that til it went live. Just wow.

Seriously though, we used to get over two hundred spams a day… since going to a locked older post comment system, overall I only get about 75 spam a day, that we clean out pretty regularly.

After a while, it does get hard to notice when there is a real comment in the midst, though.

And as Dechion said earlier on his blog, seriously, do you really need to use your bot to troll spam all along the internet, being the biggest asshole in the world? Does this REALLY net you the benefits?

I like to think that spam on blogs is part of hell’s plan, in keeping with the Neil Gaimen/Terry Pratchett book Good Omens. You know, just one of those projects, like telephone customer service menus, freeway cloverleafs and construction, and sales calls at dinner time that are designed to make you just a little more miserable, so that you are in a bad mood, and tend to be just a little more meaner to other people, ending up with a new grumpiness quotient that tilts the balance of power to the side of evil.

Which is an incredibly insidious concept, when you think about it.

Ugh, I try to pop into the blog a few times a day from my admin account and help empty the spam folder (BBB gets a lot of comments that the spam filter automatically marks – although it’s cut way down since we set it so only posts from the last few weeks can be commented on – (thanks to Pike for that idea!). Well this afternoon there were 4 comments sitting there in the folder and I very, super quickly scanned the body of the comments and they were the usual “check out this product” or “I agree completely” text (which is always from a sales/spammy website/email address).

So I hit the delete spam (which permanently deletes the comments forever) and as it was deleting (and I couldn’t stop it), I realized the first one was actually by Lady Jess’ email address/blog recommending a program/software that she uses for blog posting to not lose posts like this. But it had already hit the empty spam folder button when my eye caught the name. I told BBB what I had done by phone and he was mighty annoyed with me because it would look like he was spamming and deleting comments from actual readers. He was going to post a sorry comment when he gets home, but I’m beating him to it since it was totally my fault.

So if Lady Jess notices that her comment isn’t there, it was not BBB’s fault and please repost. Sorry!

Cassie