On the drive to work today I came up behind what I thought was a truck load of tree branches, when I got to the front of the truck there was a huge sign that said “Merry Christmas Boston” and I relized that it was our annual gift to Boston.
The province has also been sending a giant evergreen to Boston for more than 30 years as a thank-you for the help the city’s citizens provided after the Halifax Explosion in 1917.
As you may have been able to tell, I’ve been a bit bored with blogging as of late. There was a slashdot article on something that I’ve been meaning to do for a while. Video Blogging.
… but then again… after filtering the comments on the slashdot story I realize that I really just enjoy the technology and don’t really have a message to send. In other news…
– Strongbad DVD is out this week
– http://demandmedia.net/ is a good waste of time.
NS Vehicle Safety. Now if I can find if there are any national regulations that superseed the NS laws.
Well, here they are. I don’t see any regulations on video screens such as GPS etc in view of drivers.
I thought I would put a few words down about B2 spam since people have made comments about it. The people who spam blogs use the fact that anyone that has a B2 board has the same input text boxes (FORM’s in HTML). They are then able to write a program that will just submit text to theses standard input textboxes. This is how they are able to spam so many sites with so many posts.
Most people have implemented security through obscurity, by changing the name of the input box like the one below
so their little automated program doesn’t know how to submit comments. Usually they won’t take the time to go and customize their site just for your blog, they want to hit as many blogs as they can with the least possible effort.
Some people implement security that is very hard to get around by machines, such as the distorted letters in an image that you have to type in in order to submit your comment. This is done by large sites such as google for site submission so that people have to enter items by hand. This is likely a better method but requires more user input which isn’t always a good thing with blogs as people are less likely to jot down a few words if they also have to decipher a code.
In other news… I put on a new (lower) ball joint on the Cadillac and also new disks and new caliper. It turns out that I didn’t have to do the brake work but it was very very easy to do and the brakes do feel nice with brand new rotors/pads so its all good. I will try to put on a new bearing (can you see my pattern of trouble shooting here, keep on replacing things until you figure out what the issue is :) so I am hoping for the skys to clear a bit today.