Archive: August 2003
Spam in comments
I got spammed in my comments, by someone from IP 61.181.5.155 (CHINANET Tianjin province network, administrative contact Dongmei Kou). I’m not quite sure what to do about it – I’ve banned the IP, but that’s not going to help. It was very explicit – not the “nice article, keep up the good work. lookup zip [...]
(Full Post)Miscellaneous News
Disabled-access fixes too costly, says retailer
Renovation improves access for disabled fans
SDSU creates Web site to assist disabled
Sea-Tac makes it easier to get disabled travelers to the airport
More Metro churches minister to deaf, blind
And in the honorary iBot category…
Japan ready to market “robot suit”
Keeping track of comments
How do you keep track of comments you’ve posted to other people’s blogs? I’ll comment on something, forget to check back for a couple of days, then find out that there was actually a discussion going on I would have liked to have been a part of if I had known it was happening.
Blog comments [...]
All Crutched Out
On the one hand, good news, I’ve been well enough to use crutches almost exclusively for the last couple of weeks.
But into every picnic, a little rain must fall – with crutch use comes back pain, wrist pain and numbness in the hands.
Oh, well.
Fire Hazard
From the BBC’s Ouch! website, read Mik Scarlet’s column “What did you just call me?”.
(Full Post)Relative Risk
An acquaintance of mine is, shall we say, risk averse. His current concern is West Nile virus. He has been regaling me with counts of how many of the mosquitoes caught in his neighborhood are of the West Nile carrying variety, and how many dead and sick birds he’s found. Today he asked me how [...]
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