From Father to Son, Last Words to Live by.

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It’s not often that I post about something I read on digg but this time I just couldn’t help it.

This story brought tears to my eyes. It’s about a journal that a soldier stationed in Iraq wrote for his son that had just been born, in case he was killed while serving in Iraq. Unfortunately he was killed and the guys wife writes an article about the journal in the New York Times.

I couldn’t think what you would write about in such a journal or even how would you do it? What would it be like if the only way you knew your father was through a journal and what other people told you?

digg – Fallen Soldier leaves 200-page journal for Son. A must read.

NY Times – From Father to Son, Last Words to Live By

The ultimate Hair Dressing Kit

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Ever had the problem of being unable to find the right “tool” for the job when you’re doing your hair? Umm yea.. I never had that problem either… but if you did have this problem I’ve found the solution.

The Sunbeam Professional 8 in 1 Haircare Pack.

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What gets me is that the shop had about 10 of these on the shelf are there really that many people in George that need a whole special kit to do there hair?

Holiday

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Posts are going to be a little sporadic over the next 2 weeks as I’ll be on holiday. Things should return to normal (or whateva passes as normal round here) in January.

This doesn’t mean I won’t be posting, I don’t think I could go that long without using a computer it just means that I’ll be posting less than usual. Also means that there might be a bit of a delay before comments get moderated and approved.

If you don’t hear from me… have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Google.com down?

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google-screenshot.pngI feel like I’ve had a lobotomy, Google.com is not working. Google.co.za is though weird… I do hope it comes back soon, I’m not sure I could live without my Interactive Google page.

Update (08/12/2006 9:39)

Yay! It came back online !!!

Spam Comments on Posts with Pictures

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spam.gifIf you’re running a blog and have posts with pictures you’ve probably noticed that you’re getting alot of comments that look legit but on closer inspection turn out to be spam. For example on one of my pages that I’ve got pictures of cats on I got a few comments about how cute the cat is with a link to one of those link farming websites with tons of links to stuff about v1aggra and r0l3x wtchs and other similar common spam.

I was puzzled how exactly they were getting comments that made sense and appeared to be written by real people and yet the links and email address’s were obviously spam ones.

Then I read this post on Mark on WordPress and suddenly realized whats going on, basically the spammers collect a bunch of blog posts with pictures on then display the pictures to people and ask to write a comment about the picture to proceed to there site or something like that… these comments are then posted as comments on my blog with the spammers url in the link field. It’s clever because the comment gets past the cursory glance that I normally give all new comments (I have have moderation enabled on my blog.) and it’s only if you actually look at the URL’s that you notice somethings a bit “funky”.