e-mail me personally at cj@cherryh.com and tell me your preferred user name; I’ll sign you on myself and e-mail you a temporary password. The press of spambots trying to register is too great, over 10 an hour—I’m deleting all registrations via the usual source and am going to find a software to blitz these bots, but I’m just back from a trip and haven’t the brains to deal with it at the moment. So just write me and don’t be shy. I’ll do that by hand and you’ll be in.
if you want to register for this blog…
by CJ | Jul 7, 2013 | Journal | 17 comments
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2 more spammers registered while I was writing the above. So understand —and let’s do it this way until I post other instructions.
You could try this plugin to add captcha codes to registration, and optionally to other things.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/
I do have that installed and it’s somehow getting past them. What I’m looking for is a good banhammer sort, but the procedures seem a bit arcane and I’m trying to figure which is the best one.
I’m trying a software. I need to get at the ‘comments blacklist’ function of WP and can’t figure how, but I’ll keep trying.
It’s on your Control Panel under Settings > Discussion.
There are some notes about it here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam#Comment_Blacklist
Ah, indeed it is, and thank you, GW! We’ll see if it integrates as it claims it will. I have just listed two of my prime offenders.
Thanks for registering me!
The flood is slowing. I’m hopeful the fix is working. In the last few hours only a few have gotten through and added themselves to my ‘ban’ list.
Huzzah. Anything that will combat that is welcome.
Personally, I think if you threatened to feed, er, I mean, give them to the kif, or the knnn, they’d run away if they had any sense.
Or perhaps toss them in a nice dungeon, er, basement, that is, with a few grues, beasties from the old Zork games (’80’s, very old-school) and then turn off the lights. However, be sure you are out of the room before you turn off the lights. Grues apparently quite like unlit underground rooms and tend to, um, dispatch anyone foolish enough not to bring a flashlight or torch.
Not particularly helpful, but perhaps worth a grin.
“It is dark. You might be eaten by a grue.” 😀
Loosely almost related: “Indy, the torch is going out!”
In the care and maintenance of the feline cohabitant units:
One has had to do a drastic thing. The younger feline unit cannot refrain from his urge to nibble/chew on computer cables. This, despite repeated scoldings and threats of dire consequences should he bite down upon the wrong wire at the wrong time. — One does not wish bad things to happen to the little guy. One has not liked replacing headphones before, either.
So, after another bout of “Oh boy, it sure looks like fun to chew on these cords!” with the human associate saying, “No! No! Gods rot it, don’t chew on the cords, you nut!” (with more colorful phrases here and there) well, the cat scampered off for a moment, puzzled as usual by the human’s insane ranting about chewing on these enticing cords, and the human’s sudden inexplicably hostile aggressive tendencies.
Darn cat just won’t learn.
“OK, cat, I love you, but I’ve had it with this. I’ll show you.” — I went to the kitchen and got the bottle of Tabasco sauce. I poured a bit on a Kleenex and wiped it across several of the cords this cat, whose middle name must be Trouble, finds the most irresistible: headphones, graphics tablet, etc. I hope I applied enough and not too much.
The little so-and-so is likely to get a surprise the next time he tries that. I am not likely to be too sympathetic. I’m hoping once or twice, and he’ll get the idea. He *is* a bright cat…he just doesn’t have experience getting zapped by something, and I really, really don’t want him to learn *that* the hard way. — A zap with hot sauce, I can live with as a deterrent.
However, I do hope the human unit (me!) does not forget any time soon that I did this, because if I wipe my eyes after touching a cord…I will have yet more colorful phrases to utter. (And that will be my own dang fault, not the cat’s.)
Also…I really hope the little son does not have a hidden liking for hot-and-spicy hitherto unknown. Gods be feathered if he should take a *liking* instead of an aversion.
So far today, he has not had the urge yet to nibble again.
One hopes one has not gone overboard in this solution, but one would not try it if one saw a better, more viable alternative.
Goofball little feline. I luvz ya, kitty-cat, but I don’t want to change your name to Sparky or Frizzy…. Or Hot Stuff either….
(The mama dog I grew with, my mom’s dog, actually *liked* hot sauce. So I’m nervous, here.)
Back on topic. 🙂
Other things that might work are mechanical and/or chemical. If the hot sauce doesn’t dissuade the little miscreant, try Bitter Apple, available at pet care places to break them of gnawing on what they ought not. You could also try the snap on covers which are flexible plastic corrugated tubes with a slit in one side; if cattus can’t get to the cord, he can’t chew it.
Little Brother has begun to tease Zorro by bounding up to the screen door when she’s sitting there, thwacking it, then running away. I think he’s getting to be That Age, but doesn’t realize she’s just not interested.
BCS, try putting some cloves or lemon peel in the area, I know it won’t look nice but kiteehs absolutely HATE smell of them, so they shouldn’t even try this. Another option is spraying a little of cologne on the wires, again most cats can’t stand the smell of it 🙂
@ Chondrite and Justi, thanks. 🙂 All those sound better than the chance I’d rub my hand across a cord and without thinking, rub my eyes. (And it sounds better for the young feline miscreant too.)
Bitter Apple, Cloves, Lemon Peel, I can live with all those more easily. Thanks, I’ll try that. Cloves, I have. Lemon juice, I have. No fresh lemons (my grandmother would be scandalized). No Bitter Apple, but I’ll be going to the pet store soon. I’ll ask them.
Oddly enough, he hasn’t tried it yet. Possibly, he smells it or got a taste and I didn’t know. Fine with that. As long as it works.
I expect all it really takes is to break him of the habit, and once he has that through his furry little head, he’ll be fine. Smart little so-and-so, but stubborn, and likes it.
well, i do appear to still be on so all’s well in my corner. many thanks!
Looks like my login still works OK here. for today, at least…
I had tried to email you right after I got back from LibertyCon with congrats on you & David being among their Special Guests next year. The mailbox was overflowing at that point, though, apparently.