You know what's annoying? One person thinking that they're superior to you, just because they caught something that you possibly overlooked.

I mean, let's say you're standing in a supermarket, shopping for that perfect cut of meat. You're standing there in the meat section, eyeing over the packs of pork chops, and you grab the one that just so happened to catch your eye. After you make your pick, someone else comes up behind you with the same agenda, and sees an even better package of chops. As they pick up the pork chops, they say, "Haha... Dude, you just totally passed up the best pack of chops ever. You're such a retard for doing so, too."

Maybe the first person though that their pick of meat was better than the second person's. Maybe the butcher came out and stocked the cooler right after the first person made their selection. Whatever the case may be, the choice the first person made was the appropriate choice at the time, and they did their best to find the most perfect slice.

This applies to life in so many ways, I can't even begin to label them. All I can say is that if you find yourself in the second person's shoes, think twice before opening your mouth. Better yet, maybe go offer the better selection to the first person.

The spam project has a new look and new database, finally. I've forked it off as a project of its own, and I'm working on getting things in place to make it look good and work well.

As you can see, the numbers have changed a lot with this new graph. Why? Because it's accurate now. There are 937 recorded IP addresses right now that have been confirmed as spammers by means of various methods.

I've added the ability to track the last "payload" that the spammer has submitted, in the form of a serialized PHP array. So far it has been working well. Also worked into it, any return visits will automatically mark an IP address as "black". I'm working on ideas to identify similarity between payloads to help narrow down what is and isn't spam. I'll probably end up using the MySQL SOUNDEX() functions for this, and run it in batches manually. Soon there will be interfaces for you to use in your own projects! Yay!

[root@tims_place ~]# /etc/init.d/weekend start
[ Ok ]
Starting the weekend...

[root@tims_place ~]#