I have been completely inundated with comment spam over the last few weeks, which I suppose is a good thing because it means I’m getting enough exposure to become a target. It’s a bad thing because it means WordPress has sent me roughly 200 emails telling me I might have been spammed.

So I’ve had enough. In an effort to keep things as invisible as possible, I’ve installed Bad Behavior and Spam Karma 2. Please, please, PLEASE tell me if you have ANY issues posting to my blog as a result of these measures. Hopefully most of you won’t even notice them, but I wanted to let everyone know, just in case.

I’m not a fan of captchas, but some of you might get presented with one if you trigger the filters. I would really appriciate feedback on how many people are having to fill those in. If you get one, please let me know in your comment, or email me.

Thanks so much for understanding, and for helping me implement these new plugins. I hope they don’t get in the way of good conversation.

I’m back baby!

If anyone’s looking for heaven on earth, I’ve found it. It’s called Bora Bora and it’s in the South Pacific.

I’m easing back into things slowly, and I’ve written up a ‘First Impressions’ post on my X41 Tablet, so that will be up tomorrow hopefully.

Well it’s about frickin’ time! Lenovo has finally gotten around to shipping my tablet - nearly 2 months after I ordered it and 3 weeks later than the ‘latest’ ship date I was originally given.

Here’s the fun part - I’m not going to be here to recieve it. HA!

I’m getting married this Saturday, and we are immediately jetting off to Tahiti for two weeks. So needless to say I won’t be posting for a little while.

I’m not going to miss my tablet - but it better miss me. Serves it right for taking so long to get here.

I apologize. My site has been experiencing some issues with it’s database server. I’m currently talking with my web host to get these problems ironed out, as it seems that my database server is the same as their own database server, so I’m inclined to think they want to fix it soon. In the mean-time, I’m taking a look into some wordpress caching plugins to take the load off the server and to keep the site working without the database connection. The downside of this is that I won’t be able to keep track of how my site is performing with my stats program. Any wordpress gurus out there have suggestions?

With that out of the way, I thought I’d post an update about my X41 Tablet PC order - it’s back-ordered, and currently showing a July 19th ship date. This is getting dangerously close to my wedding date of August 6th, so unless I get it about a week before I leave for Tahiti, odds are I won’t be able to play with it until the end of August - which would be torture.

I’m also working on some posts about Orb.com and using it to stream your TV recordings to anywhere in the world, using Meedio and DVD Profiler to setup a cool database for your DVD collection, and compressing your recordings for consumption on your Palm OS device using MMPlayer. The first of these should be finished in a couple of days, so keep an eye out.

I figured I should write something other than that ‘Hello World’ post that was generated. Well, this is my blog…wierd. Almost too easy to setup - Wordpress is cool. Hopefully this blog will serve as a way for me (and others, if I’m interesting enough) to spread information about how technology can work FOR you, not against you.

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