Turning the tide on the spam bots

I was finally able to turn the tide on the spam bots that have been out to get me. Akismet has kept them at bay for the most part, but they’re still wreaking havoc on the back end by clogging up the database with useless crap and causing dozens of moderation emails to be sent out. I finally got the Math Comment Spam plugin back in place and working which has all but killed off the problem. There seems to be some compatibility issues, but after a whole lot of messing around I finally got it to work again. Unfortunately, I don’t remember a damn thing about what I did. At least I think it works…

What would you do with $100 billion?

I’m reading these articles about Apple and their $100 Billion in cash surplus. Not that Apple is worth $100 billion, but they actually have that available to spend. They have cash money! I mean holy shit! That is an incomprehensible amount of money. What the heck would you buy with that? To me, $100 million is beyond the scale of spending. You would have to be buying the most ridiculous and stupid stuff to spend that. How could you spend $100 million on things you actually need like a house, car and vacations? In reality that would be more than you could spend in a lifetime without buying a fleet or Ferrari’s. What could Apple possibly spend that $100 billion on? Sure they could buy some companies, pay out some dividends, raise some salaries, and still have tens of billions of dollars left over. Even with their best efforts I don’t think they could actually spend that kind of cash. […]

Just watched a guy purchase an iPad 3 and Apple TV box. Nothing but jealous.