Ree’s musings

Chase the fleeing words
Lash them fast to the blank page
They escape again

I'm supposed to be looking for a blog icon. The image should be tasteful, small or shrink down well, and above all, it must not be religiously offensive. It must be religiously conservative, incapable of irking even my born-again grandmother.

So what's in my icons folders? Pagan gods, the Space Pope, a comparison of Emperor Palpatine to Pope Benedict XVI, support of marriage for all sexual orientations, a Discordian icon declaring its possessor to be a =POPE= or =MOME=, several icons decrying Christianity outright*...

This could take awhile.

*(What of it? They were stylish so I kept them to admire.)

I'm not the only one getting spurts of spam. Good to know.

I wish Tabulas gave us the choice of Delete or Delete As Spam, like they have on LiveJournal. Delete would continue to work like it does now, and Delete As Spam could notify Akismet about the spam comment, improving the spam filter for all Akismet users. That does rely on users making the correct choice between the two comment deletion options, but oh how I long to mark the spam as spam and get it automatically culled!

That said, Roy does a good job keeping the spam down. I've lost count how many times I got an email notification of a new comment that was obviously spam, went to delete it, and found that it was already gone.

I just want to give the spammers an extra kick in the britches, however I can.

(Limerick, baby!)

There once was a woman named Ree,
As giddy as giddy could be.
When someone asked why,
She simply said, "I
take pleasure in laughter. Teehee!"

I am currently the #1 Google result for icon fail. After making that post, I found just the sort of icon I was looking for — too late for it to matter. Life, it has its ups and its downs.

I want to shut down my computer and leave it off for a week. It won't happen, of course. It's just a passing fancy. I had figured, hey, holiday weekend (here in the US), plenty of time to kill at the computer. Idea: Upgrade my forum! Yeah, bloody brilliant. I got started in early afternoon. As I type this, it's not two hours till midnight. I am still picking error messages out of my metaphorical teeth. My error list has gone from three lingering lines to — actually, I don't want to know how long it is now. Mommy. Ah, well, the forum wanted upgrading for security reasons, and it's done now. If Bloglines would just follow the sodding redirect for the feeds, everything might be where it's supposed to be. Finally. Oi. ... Scratch that. I am now typing this with less than a half-hour till midnight. Posting anything to the forum had caused it to drag its heels. (I like to think my webserver wears patent leather pumps. It is a fabulous server, you see.) I Googled up some likely causes, narrowed my list down to one, and wrestled with a PHP class until I finally found the correct spot to slip my Googled-up fix. Presto. Faster posting. I wanna watch a movie now. No searching, no typing, no copying or pasting. Completely passive. Completely not my fault if something goes wrong. Of course, the movie I most want to see is one I bought the other day. The disc doesn't work at all in any of the three DVD players I tried. Maybe I should stick to things I'm able to debug. At least they're fixable.