I’m a post grad.

We were already declared geniuses, but now I (and through extension you) are all post grads.

I’m a post grad.

On a more serious note. Link spammers are getting very sneaky. Be very careful when you paste anything into your blog even images like this one. (The original image code included spam links.) Both of these came from criticsrant.com, so be careful and always read the text included in all html code.

Looking for locksmith; will pay 550 thousand dollars.

I was going to help this poor man, but “offortunitely,” I don’t have a hammer. Maybe you can?

Dear Sir,

This is john kamara from Liberia West Africa. I am the only son of my father. My late father was the managing director of gold and diamond company in my country. And he use his position then to make away for me and my only mother.

Right now. I am in Ghana and I came dawn with a consignment worth 5.5million dollars. At the moment. The consignment is right here with me in my hotel room.Upen my arrival yesterday in Ghana.i tried to open the box but offortunitely. The key get brook on my hands.

This evening i decided to go the internet cafe to search for a God fearing somebody that can assist me to open the box and he will also invest the funds for me .I am ready to give %10 of the total funds to you before any investment.

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Extra, Extra Read all about it, My WordPress feed is being scraped. on the 23rd of January

Oh yay…yippee…It seems that lately most everything that I post — especially posts about WordPress — are being auto-scraped and ending up displayed in “feed-reader” websites that are just the next generation of splogs. So what am I doing about it to protect my WordPress blog? Simple. I’m adding more links to my past posts.

The sites claim that they aren’t doing anything wrong, and I do have to give their arguments credit, so here is the catch: if they remove the links, then they are modifying my content and aren’t “just another feedreader”, so I can report them, if they leave them in, I can get a little more traffic and “google juice” — although the later is falling in importance and relevancy —, or if they notice this post and remove my site from their list, I get what I really want. It is basically a win-tie-win scenario here.

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Mommy, he hit me. Yah, well you bit me.

Drama, drama, drama. Sometimes you are amazed at the internet and its ability to bring the word together and coalesce the sum of humanities accomplishments into a single information source. Other times you start to wonder if the internet is filled with pre-pubescent children running around whacking each other over the head with inflatable hammers. Yet again, we have another of the latter. This time the wounded parties are theme designers who sell links to websites, embed them into their themes, and distributed freely across the internet–sometimes, according to Matt, these links are even sold to the same people who spam blogs. Like many of you have heard, these “sponsored” themes are now banned from several central theme distribution sources; thus, minimizing the ability of these themes to spread which, as a result, will keep them from making money for their authors.

Well words have started flying, on one side you have the people losing money and on the other side nearly everyone else.

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