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I’ve added a few features today.

  • There is now a ‘recent comments’ link under Contribute. It also has its own RSS feed, so I can watch for comments should the comment spammers get through.
  • Articles now have URLs constructed from their titles. I feel I could do better at this. I need to read some papers on automated abbreviators.
  • I fixed a nasty little problem where a sqlite3 “insert or replace” was whacking my password. Turns out that deletes the whole row on a replace, so you better be specifying all the field values.

And now 4 days later.

  • I now log much of the POST methods into my database. There is a distributed botnet trying to leave a comment on one article in this blog. I’m curious what they wish to say. I’d hate to miss out on a first contact situation.
  • Found a couple URLs that were missing their “.php”.  Apache was ok with this, lighttpd is not.
I have made contact with the robots. We should all be afraid. Thus far the robots have attempted to add these comments:
  • SEX
  • SEX
  • SEX SEX SEX LOVE
  • zubav1na-ps1h1chesk1e-bolezn1  except the digits 1 are supposed to be the letter 'i', I just didn't want to get indexed by it.
I suppose some filtering software will now block my site because it talks about sex.
More robot chatter:
  • fandango
  • tatuazh
So if a tattooed robot offers to dance the fandango with you, you should know it only wants sex.