You know, I'm starting to wonder if the warm weather is bringing out the crazy people. There have been a rash of strange visitors to my work lately-- the guy with the lady's slippers, the old preacher who played his harmonica with his nose while clacking his dentures (did I mention him?), and that lady with the toilet paper doorag around her head...

Well, today this girl in maybe her early 20's came up to my desk looking for her sister. I entered the name in the computer to find out what room she was in, and while I was doing that, this girl started dancing. I mean, like really dancing. Booty shaking, club hopping, ghettolicious, to absolutely no music at all. I can only conclude that she did this for my own personal entertainment. Somehow, somehow, I did not fall out laughing. But I wanted to... oh so bad.

I love the crazy folk. And apparently, they like me, too.

Which is actually kind of scary, come to think of it.

"No, I'm sorry sweetie, we'll play later... Mommie has to get ready for work."

I think the frowny face is highly appropriate at the moment.

:(

I need help! I want to close commenting for the holidays while I'm on my break because spam ISN'T what I asked for this year. Can someone tell me how to do that? I've seen some perl coding floating around on the internet for that, but uh... yeah, I don't even know what that is, so ayudame, por favor!!

Gracias.

Our computer is up to something.

It's always had an attitude problem, that's nothing new. We're used to the stubborn, illogical, sullen behavior. It's like having a teenager in the house. But now, it's working on something. Something it doesn't want us to know about, because it waits until we're asleep. We catch it late at night, crunching away at some secret project. It's signing itself onto the internet, and having clandestine meetings with other rogue computers at 2 a.m. They're going into chatrooms, talking bad about us, and spreading nasty viruses amonst themselves. Maybe it's just been running with a bad crowd, I don't know. But it's got to stop.

Do you hear me, Computer? You're this close to having your modem taken away.

Don't you roll your eye at me! I'll unplug your webcam faster than you can download your next virus, Mister. (which I guess is not that fast, considering the dial-up.)

Sigh.

It's been a weird month at the terrablogs sites: chattablogs, nolablogs, covblogs, etc. And you know who's to blame? George Bush. No, I'm kidding. It's the spammers.

After being thwarted by MT Blacklist, they got mean, and creative. They started spamming in the middle of the night, then they started crashing the server with their voodoo in order to spam us unencumbered. When the administrators (Josiah and the Posse) started fighting fire with fire, the evil spammers decided that if they couldn't have their way with Terrablogs, then NOBODY would enjoy it, and they started an ugly assault that forced an emergency upgrade to MT3. We lost commenting abilities for a day or so, but that's been restored. We're now on a nice, shiny new server that so far, is the cat's meow.

Things should be settling down now, and we can all get back to blissfully blogging about gorging on Christmas goodies and facing the horrors of the shopping mall in mid-December. Ya know. The usual.

Let Josiah know how much you 'preciate his hardwork, FREE hardwork, I should mention. The kid doesn't get paid for this, so give him a slap on the back, and drop a penny in the tipjar. You just don't get this kind of service at blogger.

Long live Terrablogs!!

Comments are back on, folks. Lemme hear ya say it.

Also, thanks to Josiah and crew, who have been busting it big time to get the spamming under control!

Maybe if we don't make any noise, they won't think anybody's home.

Comments are off for a day or so, as Josiah gets things tightened up. You're in our sights, spammers. Your days are numbered.

To all my non-spammers, please come back and comment later. Please? *puppy dog eyes*

Okay. I have my preference set to recieve email notification when someone comments, so that I can catch the spammers. BUT, sometimes, they get around it, and I don't recieve an email when the spammers comment, so I can't "despam" in the normal way. I don't know how they do it, those wily dogs. Anyway-- most of it seems to come from bob@somethingoranother.com Is there a way to ban an email address that starts with bob@"whatever"?

Come on geniuses. I need some help. Bob is making me nuts.

APOG got a new do! Hugo is still making changes, so it's not entirely finished, but doesn't she look spiffy?

won't make house calls unless you pay him. The sorry sucker.

So being poor and stubborn, we're attempting to fix our very sick computer ourselves. (note, this is quite possibly a Very Bad Idea.) I can only blog from work right now *looking around nervously*. So, I'm gonna have to take a break for a few days until the old girl is up and running again, if she can be revived at all.

A quick and easy solution to this problem (and one I'm heavily encouraging): Buy me a new computer! This guarantees you non-stop, hip-hop, cutting-edge APOG action, 24/7. Beck and call, baby. I'll blog till the break of dawn, I'll blog like it's 1999. You can't stop this blog machine because I'm crazzzzy cool.

Okay, okay, I'm going. You're not even going to miss me, are you?

APOG is packing it up, and moving to nolablogs. Josiah has created a new terrablog domain for us South Lousianians, and I'm gonna break it in for him.

So, get ready to change your links for me, starting this weekend. There will be a redirect from my chattablogs url, so just hang on while we get it figured out.

Don't leave me, dear readers. APOG is a co-dependant blog and needs all the lovin' it can get.

We have abandonment issues over here.

Josiah the Ever Expanding is creating a blogsite just for Louisiana bloggers. We'll have the choice of monroeblogs or nolablogs. This is a REALLY good opportunity for my gang out there who've been talking about blogging (or I would just like to see doing it) to get on the bandwagon! I'll name some names. Rachel. Rhonda. Joey. Amy. Hey, even you Shelby! All you have to do is shoot Josiah an email, or leave a comment on his blog, and he'll get you hooked up. It's nothing to be intimidated by on a technical level, because blogging is easy, and there are lots of people (including yours truly) who are ready to help ya.

Anyway, as things get up and running, I'll keep you updated on any changes.

I know there are spam comment blockers that you can put on your blog, but I don't know how to do it. Can somebody talk me through it? As big a fan of lipitor as you guys know that I am, I will not be a big advertising board.

Take that ye vile spammers.