I’ve been getting some pretty bad spam attacks as of late. So I put up my Second Layer of Spam Protection in hopes to thwart some of it.

Hopefully, Bad Behavior will behave nicely.
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To sweep in the month of June, I decided to finally upgrade to the 2.2 branch of the WordPress 2.x Tree, from the 2.0.x Tree.

This was a major upgrade compared to the previous maintenance releases. As some of my personal theme’s tags were deprecated and thus rendered useless.

Add to the fact there was a database update. (Big deal)
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I saw this article on h-t-t-p forward-slash forward-slash slash-dot-dot-org referencing an article in Science Daily:

A Sound Way To Turn Heat Into Electricity

It could revolutionize the impact of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
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Cisco sented me this this link today:

Hack for Hire

The publisher of an online newspaper in California has hired two reporters in India to cover meetings of the Pasadena City Council. The outsourced reporters are going to watch Internet broadcasts of the meetings and then file their stories by e-mail. English is an official language of India.

They outsourced their journalism!

Brilliant!
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Thanks to Chris Dodd’s (D – Conn) blog, I have compared the two following charts:

First from the Democrat New Hampshire Debate:

Second from last nights Republican Debate

Is it me? (I know its not, the question is rhetorical) but I’m already tired of the 2008 Election.

Its June 2007. The first Primary/Caucus is not until January 14, 2008.

Why did this Election Cycle start so early?

Is this going to affect voter turn out 17 months from now? Yes, Seventeen Months until the November 2008 Elections. We have seventeen more months of escalating political blathering.
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So Paris Hilton spectacle took a new tabloid turn.

Sentenced to 45 Days for violating parole and driving intoxicated with a suspended license has never been such a media event.
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This weekend I picked up some long-time-coming liqueurs for the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-Compound Bar.

• Drambuie
• Galliano

I decided I’d work on some new drinks in my bartending repertoire.
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The urgent is seldom important and the important is seldom urgent.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

One thing you learn in a cubicle jungle, there is a lot of unimportant urgencies.
Its where all the Jihads, Ghost Hunts, Bulldogs, and EchoFlares come from.

One of the more frustrating functions of my role, is I serve two masters. The Call Center, and the Developers.
Each has their own cycle of up, and down, times; and they rarely match. And I find I’m in the unfortunate position of serving both.

For example, I’m trying to plan a way to take a vacation. A REAL vacation. And the prospects are bleak.
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And now, for entirely unimportant reasons, I would like to give my 33rd annual State of the Geek address.

The occasion for this address is the fact that the Earth is in a special position in its yearly orbit of the sun.
Today, the Olsen Twins celebrate their 21st Birthday.
Tim Allen also turns 54.

For those of you who don’t quite understand, just keep reading. As I mentioned, it is entirely unimportant.
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The Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Vernacular is working again.

As you may remember from Last Year, I was cunning enough to subvert my arch-nemesis, The-Evil-Doctor-Merlin-Channing-Lowe-Jr., into letting him ask ME to house-sit his secret lair.

While the tables turned to his favor, I have yet again re-initiated this plan, and am now camped out in his kitchen; which may or may not exist.
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Cisco arrived in the cubicle jungle today, from Ciscofornia, and graced The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com‘s Geek-O-Sphere in said Jungle.
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With the recent successes in the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com database, I’m going to try to re-promote Bad Behavior to be the primary Spam Deterrence.
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I was perusing one of the corporate blogs of the Not-So-Small-Software-Organization, and came across the following chart. It categorizes the current internet population from the Creators of content to the Readers of said content, to the people who never touch a dial up connection.

It also makes an attempt to quantify each group.

Source: Business-Week-dot-com
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A while ago, I was aware of a rift in the Vodka drinking community, between “Real” vs. “Non-Real” Vodka.

You see, back in the day, Vodka was made from Potatoes. (It was all that was around to ferment.)
As the Economies improved, Vodka was made from grains.
As Technologies improved, Vodka was made from any raw ingredient, including grapes. So much so that the liquid consumed as “Vodka” could be made from anything organic.

This bothered the Vodka Snobs, as they believe that Pure Unadulterated Vodka should be made from Potatoes or Grain. Not by grapes in France.
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VodkaPundit pointed this out, I had to contribute:

The Image is courtesy of Space-dot-com

This view, taken by a camera aboard the space shuttle Atlantis, shows the International Space Station over the the orbiter’s tail after the June 19, 2007 undocking of NASA’s STS-117 mission. Credit: NASA TV.

Okay, is it just me, or does this really look like the Shuttle is being chased by a TIE Fighter?

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The Chinsome one turns 49 today.

Thanks to Growler for pointing this out.

Go to the moon, again, for the first time. (Well, maybe not)

The X Prize Foundation has announced eight of the nine groups planning to compete in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge
From Space-dot-com.

Questions are asked, who will the ninth group be?

Too bad the Competition isn’t actually going to the moon.
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Something went funky, or FOOM and my Immigration Post published THREE times. (This is a first.)

And since I don’t like wasting an article number if I don’t have to, I’m going to attempt to recycle.

Expect another article sometime today, immediately after this one.
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The Summer Blockbusters of 2007, the year of no new ideas:

• Spiderman 3
• Shrek 3
• Pirates of the Caribbean 3
• Oceans Thirteen
• Fantastic Five (I mean, Fantastic Four, Part 2)
• Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Harder
• The Bourne Ultimatum
• Hostel 2
• Hannibal Rising
• The Hills Have Eyes 2
• Rush Hour 3
• Resident Evil 3
• Elizabeth 2: The Golden Age
• Evan Almighty
• Harry Potter 5
• Alien vs. Predator 2
• National Treasure 2
• Mr. Bean 2: Mr. Bean’s Holiday
• Halloween MMVII (20007)

I’m losing count.
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There is a lot of noise on the news and radio about this Immigration Bill.

The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com have listened to a lot of arguments, and now we’re more confused than when this bill first came from the desks of McCain, Kennedy, and Chertoff.

People are angry. Everyone has a problem with it. The problem is everyone has a different problem with it.
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The Guardian reports that Russia is making claims that large parts of the North Pole (I thought that was a point, not “parts”)

Under international law, no country owns the North Pole. Instead, the five surrounding Arctic states, Russia, the US, Canada, Norway and Denmark (via Greenland), are limited to a 200-mile economic zone around their coasts.

According to Russian scientists, there is new evidence backing Russia’s claim that its northern Arctic region is directly linked to the North Pole via an underwater shelf.

Who knew Santa Claus was Russian?

Hattip: Wizbang
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The Illegal Immigration Bill was essentially killed in the Senate yesterday, it needed 60 votes to bring the bill to the floor for a final vote.

It was short by 14 votes.

So who killed the Bill?
According to Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and John Kerry it was Conservative Talk Radio.
I have a different theory.
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