Tag Archive: Spam
Gadgets in a pre-digital age. Still from Terry Gilliam’s Brazil.
Apropos of nothing I got to thinking how the speed of life and pace of change has affected the way we communicate and consume so fundamentally that it’s easy to forget what the pre-digital age was like.
When I was growing up, getting a colour TV for the first time was a big deal. I’m 54 but I sometimes feel I was born in the 19th century. Continue reading
Is this what a spammer looks like? (Acid trip image from Terry Gilliam’s Fear And Loathing in LA).
One of the many reasons why WordPress rocks is the fact that we WP bloggers don’t have to waste time hunting and killing spams.
This blog ticks along at a modest 200 or so hits a day but ,even so, it is frequently targeted by spammers on the look out for ‘unique’ words.
For example one post I wrote about dying with dignity generated spams with links to life insurance schemes.
Some expert tech-perts know better than me why these spams are written in gibberish, I’m just thankful to have a built-in filter. At the time of writing, Akismet has protected my site from about 64,000 spam comments already.
I actually get a crazy kick out of reading some of these nonsensical messages before confining them to the cyber trash can.
I have a mental image of spammers, not as computer generated writing programs, but as human beings who exist on a diet of magic mushrooms and any other hallucinogenic substances they can get hold of. Continue reading
