Madison Monroes

Digg.com unveiled their latest version including expanded topics and some new customizations. If you’ve never been to Digg, you should go check it out. I’m interested to see if the new topics acheive the same general quality as the Tech news has for the past year. I’m also excited because they’ve added the ability to deselect topics from your homepage view, which means I don’t have to see anymore stories about the latest Linux distro or tech deals that I can’t afford. You’ll have to register to gain access to all the new categories (until the list the Beta status in the coming weeks), but you can’t really take advantage of Digg without registering anyway. Don’t forget to add me as a friend.

I don’t get it. Spammers hit this blog with spam every single day. Almost all of it comes in the form of trackbacks for things like brand name drugs, sex sites, and random names of famous people. When this first started happening, I didn’t know how to handle it. Every little thing made it onto the site, and with the default WordPress install I couldn’t figure out anyway to hold it so that the three of you who actually visit this site wouldn’t be able to see it all.

In the last 24 hours alone, there were 606 spam trackbacks. That’s definitely the highest number I’ve noticed so far. Thanks to the Spam Karma 2 plugin, not a single one of them made it onto a viewable page of this site. And that’s why I don’t see the point in sending me this crap. Why bother spamming a site that gets zero traffic and zero spam views? Maybe they just enjoy wasting my time. Well, guess what? It takes me about 30 seconds to delete all that spam, and if I wait long enough, Spam Karma will do it for me. So they aren’t even wasting my time. So what’s the point?

Edit: I should point out that the default WordPress install does include the plugin Askimet for combatting spam, it’s just not turned on by default.

This really was one of the best games on N64 and probably one of the best games ever. I remember seeing it for the first time in Toys ‘R’ Us and actually being interested in a first person shooter for the first time. I spent hours and hours playing the single player campaign mode and I’ve still never finished it on 00 Agent mode let alone the one after that. I could only unlock some of the cheats by using the GameShark. And the multiplayer…many evenings were completely blown while my friends and I lost sleep over it. The first time I ever played I got my ass kicked every game, but it didn’t take long and people started hating to play against me. And somehow, they still did…

It saddens me to think that the chances of Goldeneye appearing on the virtual console for Wii are slim to none. Maybe that will be one of Nintendo’s last surprises – actually convincing both Rare and EA to license it. If you’d like to reminisce with me, here’s a pretty cool article from one of the game creators.

I cannot believe this show was cancelled in favor of more Seventh Heaven. No matter what anyone says, I’ve never had a show draw me into the characters lives’ as completely as Everwood did. Getting me hooked on the show might be one of the only decent things Jimmy ever did for me. The series finale was somewhat predictable and sappy of course, but the writers always managed to do that in a unique way that made it worth it. I think I might just own the entire series on DVD. Everwood, you will be missed.

What could have been.