A new day, a new trap…

Hello! Son of Simon!

Whenever I get a comment from a stranger, I always agonize over whether to approve it. You see, my blog has a moderate first comment rule. The first time you leave a comment, I have to approve it. After that you can comment all you like and it goes straight on to the blog.

I’ve always worried that the spammers would start to hire people to post that first comment and open the floodgates. I had a rummage through my spam queue just now and, apart from finding Tom in there again (every time I look in my spam queue, Tom is in there. Email,blog, whatever - Tom is always in my spam queue. I am thinking of getting a Tom Is Not Spam t-shirt printed) I found two interesting pingbacks.

The first one was from this blog - www.truthfulnews.com - that looks like a real blog but every entry begins

OTB News wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt…

and then quotes an innocent blogger like me. Would be cool to write a blogbot. It would save me a lot of typing.

I assumed the second one was a blogbot too but the entry for mine:

This side of Nagasaki day 1

A trip to Tokyo complete with raw eggs for breakfast and bottom-squirting toilets.
http://www.raggedclown.com/2008/02/13/this-side-of-nagasaki-day-1/

looks like it was written by a real person.

I looked at few more entries:

Squirt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Squirt is a caffeine-free citrus-flavored soft drink created in 1938 by Herb Bishop. Bishop created a new carbonated drink that required less fruit and less …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirt

Welcome to the Official Squirtgun Website

01.03.06 - Happy New Year! Flav has been busy finishing up his new solo CD at Sonic Iguana Studios with Mass.
http://www.squirtgun.net/

and I spotted a theme. They all have the word squirt in them. Check it out - http://rocky.radiofreemedia.com/squirt.html (WARNING: it’s a web site about squirting. Not safe for minors, miners or mynahs).

How would you like that job?

Wanted
Someone to google for web sites with the word squirt in them and them summarize them on our blog.

After you jump 5 hurdles in a row and feed all the fish, you can make them all yawn. I couldn’t make the worm spit though.

Warning! Don’t click unless you have more important things to do.

Feed the Head

There’s an excellent 8 page article in today’s NY Times magazine that chronicles McCain’s stance on the Iraq War. It’s mostly positive - if you agree with McCain’s stance - and, since the liberal media is not doing it’s job and focussing on the negative, I’ll have to do it…

In his book, Chuck Hagel writes of listening to declassified tapes from the mid-1960s in which Lyndon Johnson admitted to advisers that Vietnam probably couldn’t be won but rued that withdrawal would make him the first American president to lose a war. “I wish someone had told me when I was sitting on a burning tank in a Vietnamese rice paddy that I was fighting for a lost cause just to save a president’s legacy,” Hagel observes acidly. Although McCain was held and tortured for the same cause, he never saw the situation the way Hagel did.

For the positive bits, you’ll have to go read the article.

So that’s where i went.

Time for the talk soon. I’m going with this…

Get married …buy a house …get properly settled in… furniture and so on… and wait for a bit make sure you eat properly - three hot meals a day. Then just wait a bit.

Thanks, Dr House!

Wonder what it’s like way up there…?

Oh! It’s like that!

Looks high! Do they have beer?

Yes, the good kind though. Not that kind.

What’s that I see in the background?

Ah! Mt Hood!

(click pictures for bigger ones)

So.
Farewell then
Agitar Software (formerly known as TestAgility).

We sent you code.
You sent back tests.
Free.

You helped us find crappy code.
Now we have to find it for ourselves.

Shame it’s so easy. Here!
I found some!

(with apologies to EJ Thribb, aged 17½)

Reminds me of someone….. I can’t think who…

Get off your fat badonk and stop procrastinating. Right now. No, not after the Gilmore Girls rerun ends. Now now.

Will you do this? No. You will not. You will dabble at the crossword for a while. Later, you might get a yogurt. Eventually, you’ll start reading pointless crap on the Internet. You see, you’re doing it as we speak! Because: You are lazy