I am a: Quirky sysadmin. Geek. Gamer. Comic fangirl. My little space, my home on the interwebs. I blog about personal stuffs, work, various coding projects, and anything else I feel like.

Oh my, WordPress, you’ve gotten fat! I’ve been trying to clean up this blog: deleting old pages that aren’t contributing to the site, inactivating and deleting old plugins that are no longer needed (or that I can live without), … etc. I think the hardest part is trying to figure out why I needed some […]

I got my first sales/telemarketer call on my cell last night. It was a local number, but Google searches have turned up empty. I didn’t answer it because I didn’t recognize the number. The caller left a 6 minute message touting life insurance quotes for whatever company for whom he was calling — six freakin’ […]

I’ve often heard it said that those who are high up in book smarts have no common sense. I see this theory in practice almost every single day. For instance, a particular multi-PhD/MD user came to my department wanting to know how a spammer could use her email address without her permission. Now, I only […]

I think the domain shuffle is pretty much through. I moved over the bulk of my domains last night and dropped 4 today. There may be the odd missing image or directory here or there, but I think I’ve covered about 98% of the site. You may also notice a change on the front page. […]

It seems the search and spam bots are showing my site a lot of love lately. I’ve noticed several “obvious” search results in my Search Meter logs: viagra, phentermine, tramadol, “buy hydrocodone,” home furniture, etc. — and who could forget the exploit bots, LOL p0hh0nsee%\’) UNION ALL SELECT 1 2 aid pwd 5 6 7 […]

I try to run by Craigslist at least once a week, if anything but for a good laugh at some of the ads that I see posted there. Once in a while I’ll see a legitimate posting, but for the most part they’re spams, scams, or “questionable” at best. But then again, those are sometimes […]