I’ve just blocked a bunch of IP addresses.
Over the last few months, I’ve noticed a fairly odd pattern in my referrer listing. Every morning (my time), I seem to get a request that appears to originate from http://nitrocandy.com. Yesterday I decided to do something about it. I checked the extended logs and found that that [...]

Well, this is the first time (that I’m aware of) that one of my posts has been lifted word for word. The so-called “Indian Autos Blog” lifted my article on Ten Cool Facts about the New Nissan GTR for their article here.
They have a section at the end of their article that mentions ’similar’ articles [...]

Here are the most annoying mistakes to come across in a post. I love reading articles on the net, but sometimes I read things that just grate my cheese. Here are five of the all-time biggest peeves.
1. “Loose” v. “Lose”
You’ll often see this one written in the context of losing an argument or position (e.g. [...]

When I started this blog I made a rule that I wasn’t going to get involved in posting about the minutiae of running a weblog, because no one wants to read about that kind of bumpf. So I’ll just say this. I’m officially sick of spam. Depressingly, the Akismet ZeitGeist says more than 92% of [...]