{"id":137,"date":"2004-02-02T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-02T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/Miscellany\/About\/arrived.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2004\/02\/02\/arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve Arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I started this blog last August<\/a>, I knew I’d be just another small voice in a crowded room roughly the size of Utah. I’ve had alot of fun writing my obscure little blog, and I have really<\/em> enjoyed meeting a few people via emails and comments on the blog.<\/p>\n

However, on Friday I arrived. I’m part of the in-crowd now. First, I got an invitation to Orkut<\/a>, the Hipper-than-thou, invitation-only Friendster<\/a> \/ LinkedIn<\/a> clone that’s loosely associated with Google<\/a>, from one of my readers (Thanks Chris!… and I haven’t forgotten about the broken comment system). I haven’t decided if I’m going to join yet- I didn’t do Friendster or LinkedIn, and I’ve read some things about the Orkut terms of use- but I sure was surprised to see the invite in my Inbox. Of course, I’m a week behind the real<\/em> in-crowd, but I’m not proud. :)<\/p>\n

The real clincher was a couple of hours later. Talk about feeling special… I got my first comment spam! Incidentally, if anyone happened to view said comment before I deleted it, appologies. It was pretty tasteless. Oh yeah, and not very smart.<\/p>\n

You see, the commenter pasted in a very long list of links to “adult” websites. He even used valid HTML. <\/span>Then he had to scroll down the page to hit the submit button, scrolling right past the notice that my comment system doesn’t accept HTML<\/span> yet. So even if Google indexed that page in the hour the comment was up, there were no links. Ah, gee, shucks.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, I recently upgraded my writebacks plugin<\/a> by borrowing some code from Fletcher<\/a>, adding IP tracking and email notification of new comments. So, as soon as I picked up my Powerbook, I got an email pointing me to the new comment. Two minutes later, it was deleted and the IP address was banned. Incidentally, if you’re running a Blosxom<\/a> blog, check out Fletcher’s updated writebacks plugin<\/a>. It combines a number of updates to the original, along with features from some other plugins. I haven’t upgraded mine yet, but I’m planning to. I think I have some other custom code in my existing writebacks, and I need to look over my old code first. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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