Evil Meat Eater

Spam Lovin'

sim — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:13:28 +0000

Since this isn’t a food blog, you won’t find my testament of love to canned meat (or what’s passed to look like it). This post is a story of how after some neglect, the comment moderation page in the other blog I write for was filled with 227 comments, of which 226 are glorious spam.

Spam is a annoyance when you look at its cleanup as a chore. Of course when writing your masterpiece of a blog post, you don’t silently wish that a thousand spammers turn out and fill up your moderation queue. You want insightful and well thought out comments and responses to your intellectual musings. But if you really think about it, spam can bring you insights well beyond your average legitimate blog comment.

How else could I have known that I don’t have to be an average guy any longer (though I admit that their phrasing is somewhat contradictory and confusing)? Or who will enlighten me about the wonders of modern science like Cialis? How else could I have known where to look for naked videos of Britney? Or by looking at the video known that she was asian? Legitimate comments are never as insightful or informative. Akismet is such a waste of money!

Of course, after partaking in this wonderful cup of knowledge, I always make it a point to keep all the loot to myself. So I promptly erase all the spam comments. I also set it so they’ll be moderated by default. This way, I would have a real great advantage over other people.

But today I’ve been taken over by a generous spirit. For the first time, I will share this great fount of knowledge to all of you. If you look below you will see an overgrown thumbnail of our spam moderation page. Click it to see it in its full glory (note: you may have to click it again to show full size, if your wuss of a browser resizes it to make it fit in it’s small window).

Note that it is about 1/8th of our spam moderation page. Giving you everything could overload your neural pathways with more knowledge than it might be able to handle at once. So take great care and prepare yourself before clicking. With great power comes great responsibility.

I Heart Scribbish

sim — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:35:05 +0000

I have a confession to make. I really like scribbish. I don’t like it to the point that I get a hard on when thinking about it. But I like it enough to actually spend time thinking about it and posting some of those thoughts to this blog.

For those not familiar with it, scribbish is the theme used by this blog. It was originally built for typo, but was later ported to work with mephisto and wordpress. The wordpress port is what enabled me to use this theme.

Though a lot of people see its use as a badge of laziness or lack of design talent, I actually have good reasons for liking it. It has a clean, simple and uncluttered design that fits my preference for minimalist aesthetics. Its apt use of the Georgia font for the title is also a nice and endearing touch.

It also has a lot to offer for web standard geeks. Blog entries are formatted as according to the hAtom microformats specifications. And like everyone knows, microformats are good for the semantic web. The simplicity of scribbish also makes it easy to modify. I just haven’t gotten around to doing it. And actually like the scribbish’s default appearance.

So what do you think? Is scribbish in your future?

Welcome to Evil Meat Eater

sim — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:28:53 +0000

Hi all. This is the first post to my new blog. If you want to know more about me, you can look here.

This will be a place where you will find stuff I’m interested in. It will usually be about technology and food. There will be stuff about programming, web apps, web development, linux, macs and whatever catches my fancy. Hope you come by often.

About

sim — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:53:37 +0000

I am Sim Domingo. I’m a geeky guy living in the mountains of Antipolo City, Philippines. When not slacking, you can usually find me writing code, playing with computers and sometimes cooking for my lovely, food-loving wife. I like writing about technology and food.

Despite my blog’s name, I usually don’t like meat. I am what you may call a social meat eater. I am occasionally carnivorous, so I don’t offend people who wish to die of clogged arteries. I also think the name sounds cool and fierce, so I used it for my blog.

If you wish to reach me, you could do so via email at sim ‘at’ this_domain.