Fixpert

Well, sorry everybody, lately I’ve been getting so much obnoxious comment spam, I’ve had to make the standards by which comments are automatically approved a bit more rigorous. In the last month, I’ve been getting a lot of these fake compliment comments, so now if you use certain complimentary phrases your comment will automatically deleted. I won’t even see it for moderation. It’s unlikely that a real user would end up using any of these phrases, but if you’re finding that your comments aren’t getting published within a day, feel free to ping me. Most of you have my email address — haha, make the mistake of posting that on the site for a while and just got tons of useless spam.

The really annoying thing is that these spammers are so unsavvy, they don’t even know about the rel=”nofollow” stuff. They get no benefit from posting here whatsoever, especially since their comments almost never end up live on my site. I’m just trying to cut down on the volume of comments that I have to manually moderate.

Ok, ok, ok. I was doing laundry in my apartment building and I was bored while I was waiting for the first washer to finish filling up before starting the next one — you know, because there’s a sign on the wall that says to wait 3 minutes before starting the second washer or else they’ll overflow.

So, I’m waiting, I’m staring at the sign on the wall and I noticed that I could see through the paper to what was printed on the other side. I’m pretty good at reading things backwards if I do say so myself. When I saw the letters “nrop eerf” bleeding through from the other side of the paper, I got a pain in my gut.

Check it out:

This mystery leaves so many questions unanswered. Was it my landlord that printed this out? You’ll see that I’ve blurred out the Yahoo! user name in the photo. Why would they print that out? Why wouldn’t they be embarrassed about putting that up on the wall?! What kind of dirty bird would do something like that?

You’ll notice this post is also an excuse for me to try out the Lightbox.js script. What do you think? It took about 5 minutes to get it up and running on my site, I highly recommend it!

Also, one more thing, since you all are mostly web devs and designers maybe you can help me. I’ve added float: left to the above thumbnail images, and I can’t remember how to get them all vertically flush, rather than staggering down-ward. Any ideas? My CSS chops are getting rusty with all this IA work I’ve been doing lately. Too much time spent in Visio. Well, any time spent in Visio is too much time spent in Visio, but I digress…