Archive for October, 2005
The Spammers/Bots are here
Posted by mep | Filed under java, tech
I woke up this morning to find that spammers/bots where at work abusing the blog comment section.Thanks to Pebble's pebble.event.response.MarkPendingListener, that I just implemented, the comments anyone makes will go into a Pending state until I approve (or reject) them. It was about a 1 minute [...]
gmail invites
Posted by mep | Filed under life, tech
I noticed today that I have 99 gmail accounts to 'give away'BTW – I do like gmail, it can't make you a fancy meal or tuck you in on a cold night, but for email, I like it better than yahoo. I'm very tired of the yahoo css ads that take over a page while [...]
Party Poker's Progressive Bad Beat Jackpot
Posted by mep | Filed under poker
I was looking at Party's Bad Beat Jackpot the other day. Here is the details from their site (my bodling/underlining, not theirs):
Fund distributionEvery time the jackpot is hit, 70% of the jackpot amount will be distributed and 20% will be used as seed amount for the next jackpot. 10% will be retained by Party Poker [...]
hobbling around
Posted by mep | Filed under life
The last few weeks have been, well, interesting. Sometime while getting in my 15 miles to/from work, I did something to my right ankle. I REALLY wish I know what I did, so that in another life, I'll remember not to do it again. But that's that. Now one could use the smarts and say [...]