New Trend: Blog Spamming

You keep your blog. You add content to it so maybe friends or family might keep in touch or maybe you're like myself and want to expose the intricacies of tech to other people. You eagerly wait for comments on posts you have made and one day you find a couple extra posts in yours, you click on that "comments" link like a kid who just got up during xmas day to find: Spam.

Now this isn't your average spam. This is spam that is left there as a "comment" by somebody who probably isn't as sharp in the head as to send a massive email to a bunch of complete strangers. It looks bad on your site, and you delete it but it keeps coming. Now that blogs have become news outlets and the like. Doesn't it just piss you off that your blog is used for something other than what you intended? Its Spam allright because it was an unsolicited advertisement in the spot where you only welcome opinions and comments.

I'm somewhat realistic. I don't think spam is ever going to go away. There's too many variables and reasons why although companies like Microsoft will try and tell everybody its fighting it and then you see how ad-laced MSN messenger and most online microsoft products have become. And it isn't just Microsoft, the whole internet infrastructure lends itself to that kind of activity.

While I consider a somewhat illegitimate source of income for some on the internet, I think Spam simply does not belong in Blogs. Drop me a line and tell me whatyou think. Just keep the viagra ads to yourself.

The Little OS X that could.

It seems it was only a matter of time until people got their hands on one of the OS X Dev kits for x86 and got it running on non-apple branded hardware. Now I don´t know about you but there is a guide for those of you out there willing to give it a try. It does require getting the OS X for Intel dev DVD image from p2p, so as simple as that might sound it states the legal status of such an action.

Have fun with it and tell me how it went.