A post inspired by my friend Mary:

ThinkGeek has this Swiss Memory USB module/knife geek-thingy. Mary apparently saw it at some point and sends me this email saying she doesn’t know why it would remind her of me *wink*. Hmm… me either. (Not.)

Here’s what I said to her about the Swiss Memory USB geek-thingy:

I’ve seen this item before and it’s not quite geeky enough. I mean, really, what self-respecting geek walks around with less than a gigabyte of pocket-sized storage in a single device? ;->

Seriously though, I’ve been looking at these type toys for quite a while and can’t see anything less than 1GB being useful. Now that 1GB devices are available, I can’t think of anything I’d really care to use it for. That’s kinda like Willy Wonka being indifferent to chocolate and not knowing why, heh.

A few minor plug-in related things to finish up, but mostly it’s done… four hours later. Not bad, I guess, considering all the plugins and other customizations I have installed. Not a lot of swearing at the computer either which is a pretty good measure of degree of difficulty/annoyance in the process. :) Of course, if you take WordPress’ word for it, it’s a 5-minute deal — sure, if you’re using nothing but what comes in the “box”, as it were, and, really, how many people are doing that? I know of a few; and by a few I mean “can count on one hand.”

Anyway, if ya notice anything clearly broken please post a comment on this article (hopefully SpamKarma will let you).

Speaking of comment spam: I apologize ahead of time but I’ve had to make it a requirement that all comment posters register and be logged-in in order for a comment post to be accepted. I thought the spamming was bad before but in the last three days there’s been so much (attempted) comment-spam posting that the machine is overall much slower to respond to anything. :(

Do not use the Publish button when writing a private post. It over-rides the ‘Private’ radio button without warning. :P

I hope, anyway.

To all those who in the last couple of months may have legitimately attempted to post comments and got rather brashly denied, I profusely apologize for not properly testing and configuring the comment-spam filter software I installed and stupidly assumed would “just work” with little modification. I should know better.

Argh.

I’ve now tested the filter system more thoroughly and figured out which part isn’t working, then disabled that part; comment posting then worked again. I don’t have any way to test the system from far-and-wide places though so there might still be something lurking, and the real-time blacklist part of the system is still enabled; if you’re on that list, there’s not much I can do to help.

If you find that you still can’t post non-spammy comments, please send me a note at stillbroken at jimbala.net…. If you can include your IP address used at the time of the comment it would be very helpful.