Since I have can’t think of anything better to write about and I have only 30 minutes left to midnight this time I thought I would think out loud about the comments this blog is apparently receiving. I am of course grateful for any and all comments from legitimate readers and welcome as many possible. The problem is with the spam comments or the comments that could be spam but don’t have any of the tell-tale signs of spam. For instance a lack of spelling errors and coming really really close to actually being relevant to the contents of the post but not quite.
For instance for my last post about my knowledge of WordPress there is a comment pending that talks about carefully testing software and unnecessary speed hacks of the code. That really has nothing to do with the post at all really. So either a human posted this who is being payed 25 cents or whatever to post comments to blogs roughly related to the blog whilst attaching some site URL or it is actually is a bot of I would assume some sophistication.
I think I’m going to start getting a lot more liberal with the SPAM button from now on. And if a comment does seem legit I’m going to first edit the comment and remove the attached URL if it’s anything other than a real site/blog. In other words if you’re only coming here to advertise your torrents, whether a legit comment or not, I’m deleting your plug for a web site. Those are the rules. Or I could just turn commenting off all together. That would work as well.
I was also thinking about changing that headline or byline or whatever they call it. I was going to change it but then Just another WordPress Blog started to have a certain charm to it. I am just another WP blog aren’t I? Hmmmm.
The last thing I’ll say is that installing stuff on or interacting with in any way with that Zipit is beyond frustrating. Sure there’s lots of packages available via apt-get, an impressive amount to be sure. Unfortunately they sometimes quit half way through installing with no clear way of clearing them up. No clear way to me anyway. And then most of the time there’s not really a way to tell what the keyboard shortcut controls are even normally never mind on that Zipit keyboard. It’s quite frustrating. And I never did find an MP3 player that could auto-resume playing of a track. I cam pretty close with this little experiment with VLC on my Windows machine involving play lists and bookmarks. That’s about as close as I have come so far. It won’t do it all on it’s own though. It’s like I need a way to auto-grab the last time position upon bring up a player then auto-export the last time position upon exit the next time. I have no idea if there’s an MP3 player out there that would support such an idea.
So apparently iPod and rockbox and which ever other devices have this fancy feature that no one has apparently thought to implement in an actual software player for real computers. I mean I think WMP might have a feature like that but this being a linux device that doesn’t really do me any good, does it? For that matter I suppose iTunes does as well. Again, not doing me a lot of good. This also is as you might have guessed very frstrating.
Okay I think I’m done for tonight.