Spam in Movable Type

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There seems to be spam bots crawling indexed pages and leaving
comments with heavy keyword density and offsite links in an attempt to
drive PageRank and SERPs to their spam site. I’ve seen several these
few days in sixthseal.com, which is running MT 2.63. castitas.com is
running MT 2.64 and doesn’t seem to have that problem. However,
castitas.com isn’t ranked by Google yet, though it is indexed, as can
be seen by the high SERPs with certain keywords related to drugs. I’m
not sure if upgrading to Movable Type 2.64 would foil the spambots but
in the mean time, I’m manually deleting the spam (and the URL, leaving
just the email intact) so there’s no PR leak. πŸ˜‰ I even came up with a
haiku to insert in all deleted spams:

Spam is bad mmmkay?
Your kind is not welcome here.
Go back home spambot.

Inspired by the various racist comments directed towards ethnic minorities in Caucasian countries. πŸ˜‰

Crafty Motherfucker

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Some say he’s afflicted with schadenfreude
Others say he’s just kiasu to the extreme
but whatever he has
we’ll never know
why he feels the urge to inform your friends
“There’s something I feel responsible to tell you”
“Our mutual friend takes drugs”
(or whatever it is)

It doesn’t matter what the accusation is…
the ‘sin’ would expand to fit the lie
for the active schadenfreude does not let truth get in the way of his pleasure
The aim is just to character assassinate, to discredit, to elavate himself beside the accused
Primal behavior.
But always, a disclaimer at the end
“I’m just telling you this coz I feel sorry for you”
“Please don’t tell our friend and ruin our 10 year relationship”

Ah, the crafty motherfucker…
for he knows that discussing it with the accused would expose his lies
Counting on the receiver’s kindness to get away with it…
and every crafty motherfucker knows it works most of the time.
But not all the time
coz the smart ones would think “Why are you saying this about YOUR friend?”
and wonder…

Everyone has a crafty motherfucker in their lives
Don’t you think otherwise…
I have one
Do you have one too?

Best photo for lunch hour viewing!

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It just makes your lunch all the more tastier doesn’t it? I’m
feeling so hungry right now after taking this photo, I really have to
run down to the food court and get something to eat. I’ll reply the
comments when I get back, this photo from the Ground Floor male toilets
of Kenanga International is really whetting my appetite!

Mop Swamp

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I will be leaving Sibu for KL this Sunday. There’s nothing
noteworthy to report today except that things are starting to fall into
place and preparations are basically done. I’ve opened a new bank
account with Public Bank, they issue ATM cards on the spot (during
application), which is interesting because I figured there would be a
wait. They also have an online banking system, which is useful for
paying bills. Anyway, I thought there would be a hassle involved since
I had an account with Public Bank a couple of years ago (which was
never closed) but they were not concerned about that. Now, I’ve just
got to get some funds out of a Fixed Deposit account I have in another
bank and transfer it into this account. My MyKad application has not
been successful, the place is absolutely packed every time I go in, so
I’ve decided to take advantage of the 2005 deadline and do it next time
I come back. πŸ™‚

Oh, apparently there is a lorry loaded with new mattresses driving
around the Medan Damansara area where you can buy the bulky things off
them or trade in an old mattress for a rebate of some sort. I hear it
doesn’t come at the frequency of gas and newspaper distribution
vehicles, but it’s pretty close. What an interesting concept, I’ve
never even heard of this before!

My bag of puke

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Pictured above is a plastic bag containing a portion of the things I
regurgitated today. There is another fat, dark plastic bag inside (at
the final bag below)…that’s also full of vomit. If you look hard enough
you can see a half eaten Fish Filet from McDonald’s (ate there again
for the Sega mini handheld game promo – got two, whee!). I could not
eat anything the whole day and drinking water only made me regurgitate
seconds later. It’s quite tiring really, all that throwing up business.
Especially when you vomited everything from your stomach – I was
basically making uncontrolled dry heaves.

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A closer view to make more details visible.

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Another close up of the bag of puke.

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The final big bag of puke. Note the yellow transparent color at the
bottom – I didn’t have anything else to throw up so up came the stomach
acids…

Anyway, I went to see a doctor just now and specifically asked for
an anti-emetic injection – which usually prompts “Oh, so you’re a med
school student”. It seems that a lot of the doctors here assume that
only med students know those words. I use medical terminology not to
sound pretentious – just to be concise. Anyway, out came the nurse and
told me to lie down. I declined and asked for it in the arm because I
wanted to take a photo of it. Unfortunately, that nurse is faster than
a speeding bullet – my digicam barely went through its start up
procedures before she was done. In and out in a second. Bummer. Anyway
it was an IM (intramuscular) injection that only left a tiny red mark:

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But this nurse is truly fucking clueless and the doctor was looking
the whole time and didn’t make any comments so he’s fucking clueless by
proxy too. The nurse didn’t swab me! This is such a basic
hygiene method employed even by IV drug users that one would expect a
GP to know, but apparently not. Hmm…are there any lawyers out there? If
I get septicemia, endocarditis or something like that, am I eligible to
file a lawsuit? Of course, if (a very big if) something happens
and the courts decide in my favor, I will keep half of the profit, some
will be used to run a contest on sixthseal.com, and I’ll donate the
rest to a good harm reduction organization. Hehe! Seriously though,
some HR organizations are tax deductible, so it would be good to do it,
if you support the idea behind it that is.

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“Gastric” pills

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“Vomiting/Giddy” pills

Well, here are photos of the medication I received – one is supposed
to be an anti-emetic, while the other is for gastric. True to the
practice of most of the doctors here, the actual name of the drug is
not written, only what it’s for (the symptoms). It’s coz we patients
are stupid you see, we’ll never understand and know what it is, if they
wrote the name of the drug instead. Anyway, now I have to search RxList
and see what it is, which would be pretty damn difficult as one of them
has no detail, just a single score.

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“Gastric” pills
YS imprint on the front, single score on the back, beveled edges on
both sides. 1/4 of the pill is pink while 3/4 is white. It smells like
candy.

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“Vomiting/Giddy” pills
Single score on back, no detail on the front. Plain white tablet without beveled edges.

Well, I’m sure that they don’t have any recreational value (unless
stopping you from vomiting counts, heh) but it would be interesting to
know what they contain anyway, just in case it’s contraindicated
against something I’m taking in tandem. Oh, you want to know something
interesting? The pills labeled “gastric” looks a like like this (except
for the color):

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Picture taken from this pill report [pillreports.com]. It’s an MDMA pill called F1 11, F1-11, F1 or Foneeleven.

Very interesting, huh? πŸ™‚

I just got back from dinner, I’ll make a couple of posts and reply all the comments in a while.

Supply chain management

This is a post by veritas.

Sick of your deliveries getting held up in transit? Well, we can’t help you in that aspect but we do have an alternative:

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It’s Sudafed to the rescue! I’ve never had any problems with
purchasing pseudoephedrine, except this one time at Chemmart. I was
looking at the Colds and Flu department when this store attendant came
up to help. The girl was very friendly and helpful at first, getting me
a generic pseudoephedrine pack, but I saw that it had 5 mg
chlorpheniramine maleate (an antihistamine) in it too and asked for a
pseudoephedrine hydrochloride only preparation and she immediately said
they don’t carry it and walked away. Yeah, that’s real nice customer
service. I don’t even look half-dodgy, I always get asked for ID when I
buy cigarettes or alcohol. I’m not saying that I purchase
pseudoephedrine frequently though, no, of course not.

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Anyway, I don’t have a stuffy nose, I’m just taking it in a (vain)
effort to stay awake. It’s a very, very poor substitute for meth
though, 320 mg + caffeine isn’t doing much to shake off the
benzodiazepine metabolites that INSIST (Why are you doing this???) on
sedating me. I am still sleepy right now, despite guzzling Coke (the
drink) like it’s going er…out of style? I don’t have any meth – supply
chain issues, hopefully will resolve itself soon. Help, I seriously
have trouble staying awake. Caffeine and pseudoephedrine is not
triggering my dopamine receptors. Damn things are spoilt by meth. Now
if only I have some red phosphorus, Lithium, anhydrous ammonia and some
organic chemistry background…

I’m kidding of course.

NOFX – Quart In Session
(right click, save target as)
[1:36 minutes 128 KBPS STEREO 44.1KHZ 1.48 MB .mp3]

[Edit: Mp3 deleted.]

It’s funny how
Nothing seems much fun anymore to me now that I don’t have meth
Coz soberness – it might be what I need but
It certainly not how I want to be
Nothing seems much fun to anymore to me…

Slight modification of lyrics.

Free tickets to a strip show anyone?

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I went to check my mail and found not one, but two envelopes from
The Men’s Gallery (a strip club in Melbourne). I’ve stopped wondering
about my interesting mail
[sixthseal.com], but I’m puzzled about why they felt it was necessary
to mail me 4 free tickets (each envelope had two tickets) admitting two
people each. The four tickets are enough to admit 8 people, would
anyone like them? There are two shows, one’s on the 16th (yesterday)
and the other one is on the 23rd of May. Oh, and sexually explicit
entertainment may offend. =D I’m not really interested in going, I
wonder when I’ll start getting mail that targets my interests like
“Online Pharmacy in Australia – NO PRESCRIPTIONS NECESSARY! We’re
included FREE sample packs of Dexamphetamine and Xanax as a token of
goodwill!”. Heh! In my dreams, maybe. πŸ˜‰

P/S – I was kidding about that last bit.

The bin overfloweth…

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This is what the stairway bin looks like after it’s been through the
Easter weekend. The cleaners usually empty the bin everyday but the
long Easter weekend saw the bin filled to the point of spilling. Oh
well, at least it’s getting cleaned up today. Anyway, I’ve finally
updated the About me
page. It’s been more than a year since it was modified in any way and
things have changed since then. A word of warning, it’s self-indulgent
and a “pouring your heart out” thing, so read at your own risk! πŸ˜‰

Where did that come from?

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I’ve walked this route nearly every day for 2 1/2 years now and I’ve
never seen this sign before. I could have sworn it wasn’t there before,
and yet the sign is dated 1996. It’s just by the instant traffic lights
to halls too, so I wonder how I could have missed it all the while. I
wanted to post this yesterday, but I forgot. I just found it strange
that I’ve never noticed this sign before today. Golf practice indeed.
Heh! πŸ™‚

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