My brilliant business partner has just installed some blacklist rules on the server this blog is on that has already blocked a significant number of trackback and comment spam to our blogs and message boards.

He writes:

If you’re using ModSecurity, it’s just a matter of loading the Shinn brothers’ rules, and I promise you that you will see a significant decrease in trackback spam.

If you’re hosting your blog with a provider, you might want to mention ModSecurity to them, and the rules that they can use to help you stop dead comment and trackback spam.

Read all about it here.

There’s a pig coming tomorrow. Thankfully, it will no longer be oinking, but rather cut up into porkchops, ham and bacon… but this was sprung upon us just yesterday, so we had one full day to figure out what to do with more meat than we’ve ever had in the house at one time.

Yesterday, after we heard the news of the impending pig delivery, we did a run to Futureshop to buy a freezer. The website said the ones we were interested in were “In Stock” in the Orangeville store. But, when we got to the store we discovered that “In Stock” simply means that it’s at the warehouse and can be shipped to the store. Or at least that’s what the sales associates made up to explain the noticable lack of chest freezers in the store.

So, we ordered one from the warehouse to be delivered tomorrow. If the pig comes before the freezer, we’ll use coolers, ice and our fridge and freezer in the kitchen to deal with it.

The next problem was … where to put a 20 cubic foot freezer. Yeah, we kinda got carried away with the size. I wanted the 14 cubic ft. one, but Ian was there too, and if you know guys like Ian, you’ll know that bigger is always deemed better, so 20 cubic feet it is.

All I’m going to say is that it’s a good thing that the commercial grade HUGE freezer wasn’t in stock at the warehouse yesterday.

Back to the space issue. We don’t have a usable basement. We have a partial basement that on most days could double as a wading pool, so this rather large freezer needs a home in our main floor living space. The porch is the only place not filled with stuff — or rather, not filled with stuff that belongs where it is.

So tonight we moved all the other junk out of our porch to make way for a freezer to get ready for a pig… and we didn’t know about any of this until yesterday evening.

Things move fast around here, lemme tell ya.

I haven’t had a chance to install it yet, but the TM Google Site Analyzer looks like an interesting tool. You enter your domain and it will spider it, giving you information on each page within the site, including Page Rank, number of back links, page size, number of internal and external links, and internal rank.

like Traffic Equalizer or Ranking Power, save your money and try this:
Dynamic Site Generator

I had no idea what I was doing, but I still managed to make a half-decent looking tutorial with this software. If I do a second-run, there are a dozen things I’ve figured out that I’ll do differently, but for now take a look:

InfoGoGetter Tutorial created with Wink

Overall, my impressions of both programs I’ve tried are good. Powerbullet Presenter was the most flexible, and I’d prefer it in situations where information comes from various screens, or even photos, rather than from the same app.

Wink is brilliant for single-app tutorials, and would be my weapon of choice for software instruction of any type.