Blog Spamming

I've never heard of blog spamming until a few days ago when I noticed that I have to do a word verification in order to publish a post on my blog. At first I thought that blogspot just added another security feature (similar to the word verification to post comments) but when I thought about it more it just didn't make sense to me. So I clicked the question mark by "word verification" to see what its all about and this is what I saw:

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Your blog requires word verification
Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What's a spam blog?) Since you're an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive.

Before we can turn off mandatory word verification on your posts we'll need to have a human review your blog and verify that it is not a spam blog. Please fill out the form below to get a review.

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So I guess I'm glad that this is a false positive. And all I do was have to do another word verification and now I just wait for someone to review my blog and take this silly word verification off.

I wonder what made my blog come up as a potential blog spam? I have no porn on here, no ads....

odd.

Can you hear me now?

oooh
Alex


ahh
Alex


ooooh
Alex


ahhhh
Alex


ooooooooh
Alex


aaaaahhhhhhh
Alex

Me FTW!

Once a month me and a few guys I know back from high school have a friendly Texas Hold'em tournament. I have come close a few times but last night I finally got the win! It wasn't a bad prize either since there were 5 of us and 2 people bought back in once. The cards were definitely in my favour for most of the night and it felt nice to actually make it to number 1 position finally. Usually we hold it on a weeknight but with special circumstances (Our friend Kevin R. being in town) we decided to have a bit of a bbq and get him in on the game, I hope he enjoyed losing money to us :D

The night is pretty fun since we get to see a few people we never see regularly and shoot the breeze with them. It's relaxing and we get to talk about current news and at times we relive the memories of years past and have a few chuckles. It's definitely good times. If you are LBHS 97 graduate and want in on this action just leave a comment.

So far this is the outcome of each of our mini-tournaments:

LBHS 97 T1 2006: 1st: Todd M. 2nd: Mike A.
LBHS 97 T2 2006: 1st: Andrew S. 2nd: Alex L.
LBHS 97 T3 2006: 1st: Kent W. 2nd: Andrew S.
LBHS 97 T4 2006: 1st: Ryan S. 2nd: Kent W.
LBHS 97 T5 2006: 1st: Alex L. 2nd: Kent W.

-Our buy-ins are $20/person and $20 for re-buy. We usually have 6 players.
-I'm thinking that LBHS 97 T12 will be made more significant with a higher buy in.


P.S. FTW = For the win :D

Dubs Baby!

Went to Contemporary Motorsports last Thursday and put in an order for these rims here. The are supposed to arrive in "2 weeks" but in automotive speak that means 1 month or more. I hope its only a month max, but I know my luck... They are Tenzo GT-5's in Hyperblack. I like these ones because they have a simple look to them with a nice lip. I was going to get the same ones but with the spokes painted black with a polished lip, but thought it was too trendy, so I stuck with these ones. I can't wait to get them so I can be rollin' on dubs!


can't wait!
Alex

Me in point form

I have been so busy of late and a bit lazy to write in here, but I will try to get back into the swing of blogging again with this warmup point form entry.

- Finals are over (last week).
- I f*cked up bad on one of them, but made it up by scoring 100% on my psych test the next day.

- I have been working about 30 hours a week now which isn't bad at all since the work is easy and not very demanding.
- I saw two people I haven't seen in a long while when I was at work. It was awkward.

- My schedule is busier now that I have work and have two planned sports nights.
- Basketball night is getting better, the first week we didn't have many show up so it was a bit lame....okay it was very lame.
- The second week turnout was a lot better and the night was a lot more fun.

- Football with CSSC has started again (my other sports night).
- I bought football cleats this time around and they are much better than useing soccer cleats.
- I thought our team was going to be worse this year, but I was proven wrong.
- After the preliminary placing round (new this year) we are 1-1-2. Not bad at all.

- What did I do with my first pay cheque? I put a deposit on a nice set of rims for the car....finally! (see other post for more details)
- I also placed a special order at Vistek for a lens cover and lens adapter for the G6 so I can take decent photographs in the bright sun! I can't wait :D

- Been on a quest to find the perfect burger place this past month. So far I think I have found it but I haven't tried to many other places to say for sure. (I will post on this later)

- Looking for a new cell phone. Swaying towards a Sony Ericsson. Either the w810i or the w900. I'll discuss in another post.

- Been watching the Flames and I must say I'm not impressed with this series and almost have doubts that they will be able to win the series in game 7 this Wednesday. However if they do I will be overwhelmed with joy.
-Oilers rocked the kasbah last night, winning the series in 6 over 1st seeded Detroit!