The New Digs
Beginning September 17, 2007 I will be an official employee of Cisco, working for IronPort as a Software Engineer. This will close my 6 years as an employee of That Company and begin my life as a person who can say they live in the Bay Area.
And so begins the frantic search for an apartment, the quashing of the waves and waves of panic as Shannon and I begin to decide just how much of accumulated stuff we must abandon in order to fit comfortably into a 900 sq. ft. apartment that costs around $2,000.
But, I'm very excited. My last day at That Company is August 17. I believe that Sandoval will be planning some kind of shindig to send me off, and I expect that it will occur close to the end of the month.
It's been a wild, crazy, stressful, frustrating and rewarding ride so far, and I'm sure it's only going to get better.
Back from Vacation
We're home now after a lovely trip to visit friends and family in Tennessee and California. There will be photos on Flickr soon enough, but I just wanted to share this little window into our hellish return flight. While we sat in the plane waiting for a replacement co-pilot, for a total delay of 4 hours, the interior looked more like a disco than a plane.
I believe there is an immature synthetic sentient being surfing the Internet and leaving comments on blogs
It is our duty to help it learn and grow. From the comments on a blog post about a confusing light switch:
k290 June 26, 2007
ummmmmmmmmm………….. pretty cool uh yakinh=g this many enginners to turn on a light bulb. uhhhh but it was pretty gay about this idea like it was lame bro. so get better next time
k290 June 26, 2007
ok bro it ws goooddd
k290 June 26, 2007
ummmmmmm thatn awas lame
Slipping Through Akismet
Lately I've been getting chunks of spam comments that are getting through my Akismet plugin and being posted. This not only annoys me, but it has exposed a little problem in the manual Akismet workflow. I can't see any way to mark these comments as spam for the Akismet engine because they are considered valid, posted comments by WordPress.
The comments look like this:
Author : wyydlekzto (IP: 211.46.221.34 , 211.46.221.34)
E-mail : kquze@rorhdpv.com
URI : http://hifue.info
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=211.46.221.34
Comment:
Thanks for this site!
<a href="http://hifue.info" rel="nofollow">hifue.info</a>
As you can see, WordPress lovingly appends the rel="nofollow" attribute to any links in comments to prevent those links from affecting Google PageRanks.
However, I still have to go in and manually delete these comments, knowing that by doing so I am adding nothing about these comments to the Akismet Mother Brain. Grr.
Dubious Honor #43
I had a bug in my ear for the first time in my life last night. I could feel and hear it crawling across my eardrum. When I finally got it out in the bathroom, it turned out to be a click beetle about 1/2 inch in length.
Sweet.
Birthday Boy Superstar
Things to Feel Good About
My blog is still the first result in a Google search for "musepack blows".