Damn there's loads of sad souls in the world, I must get hundreds of search hits for variations of [i]unblock myspace[/i], hundreds. Why the hell would anybody want to unblock myspace? Personally I think that if you're blocked from myspace then someone somewhere is doing you a HUGE favour :|

If you are one of the sad souls that is trying to unblock myspace then here's summat that might work. Every time you think of accessing myspace I want you to press ctrl + esc and then press the letter "u" twice in quick succession :|

The "myspace" aspect of this aside though, there's only two ways to unblock a website ( assuming it's some form of "parental control" or similar filter ). The first is to get the site removed from the filter, or added to the allowed list, and the other is to use a web proxy to bypass the filters. Now then, before all y'all start jumping up and down for joy at being given a solution to your problem you need to ask yourself a few questions ...... 1) [b]Why[/b] is the site blocked ( pretty easy in myspace' case, it's because it's crap :| ) and 2) Do you really want to use a web proxy?

Maybe it's just better to leave it blocked huh? ;)
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I always knew that spammers measured their IQ on a slightly different scale than the rest of the world, ( theirs has a lot less big numbers for them to worry about ..... like anything above 1 ), but Miquel Stoops ( such an appropriate name for a spammer ) who's the registered owner of jecenter really has trouble with big numbers. Mainly the number "403", or possibly it's the word "Forbidden" that follows it that confuses him? Certainly one of the two.

As Miquel was having extreeme difficulty understanding the words "shove it up your arse" and "403 Forbidden" I decided to be nice to him and send him a "++?????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start." message instead. Of course, the irony of this will be lost on him because he'd need to have read all about HEX and we already know he has difficulty reading :|

Somehow I don't think this will work either, as he's still attempting to shove his crap down my neck, and he's still been told exactly which of his orrifices I think is the best destination for it, but we live in hope huh?
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[quote]dan_acc: why don't you guys just talk like americans like the rest of the world does?[/quote]

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"if I had an ego I'd probably say summat like" ...... "ffs mate, get REAL, how often do you think that PERFECTION checks itself in a mirror?" ( emphassis == the original authors ) :|
of course, that all looks shallow once you realise that I am the original author :-/

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I finally managed to get the time to play with my Link-a-Word plugin, which at least one person has been waiting a fair smidge for, and I think it's done! If any of you want a pre-release play with it then you can grab it from here unzip/upload/install it and then meander over to the tools tab for a shiny new Link-a-Word tab. It *should* work with all 1.8.x, 1.9.x & 1.10x b2evolution blogs

How does it work?

Well, if you'd meandered over to the shiny new tab you would have seen a form for adding words and the url you wish to link them to, plus a few other boxes for stuff like the hover title, classname and whether the words are case sensitive or not. You'll also have seen a bloglist, as the words are blog specific, and a table containing any current words for the blog you're on, with options to delete or edit the entries.

The first thing to do is to start defining a few words and their links for whichever blog you test this on. When you've done enough then go visit the front page of the blog and magically all of the words you defined will be linked ..... how cool is that? ..... It gets a tad cooler actually. First off you will have noticed that it only linked a single occurrence of each word and if you have a case-sensative version and a case-insensite version of the same word, then it will have linked a single occurence of each. Other stuff it does is, it won't link words that are already part of a link, the w3c sorta frown on that, and it won't link words that are part of a tag ( title, class, alt text etc ), because that's another thing the w3c tend to frown on ;)

One of the things I haven't coded in is the ability to add a rel="nofollow" to any of the links, for starters why link to somewhere in your post and then remove the power of the link? The other reason is, why the hell should I bow to Googles will and do their job for them, they've more than enough money to pay a coder to sort out their algorythms huh? .... mind you, they can't differentiate between www and the root domain, so maybe they do need the help :|

As always if you find any bugs, or have any feedback, then feel free to leave a comment,
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I think we can safely say that 82.146.57.30 is never going to be a contestant on mastermind ...... they'd probably have a hard time being a contestant on a quiz made for any IQ above 1 ...... 1981 times they got told to shove their spam up their arse ....... 1981 ...... I know some people can be a bit slow on the uptake, but that's aproaching coma speed. As you can see from the table on the right this genius was just the bluntest pencil in a box full of blunt pencils.

Altogether this month their were 6,332 contestants who played a total of 27065 games, all of which they lost. I wonder how they'll feel when I finish coding the new rules in. These guys are so effective at playing the game that I've decided to turn off comment moderation so now you're free to leave a comment whenever you want and it'll be published instantly, you don't even have to decipher one of those captcha things ;)

Having been nagged by a few people I've decided it's time I got of my arse and finished coding up the new version of the game. Once it's finished I'll see about making a public version of it available. The bad news is it'll take a while to complete so don't hold your breath. The good news is you'll be able to use it on any php website, not just a b2evo blog.

It's about time that free hosts started to police their own systems, the majority of spam crap comes from throw away websites hosted on places like 110mb and blogspot has been in the central blacklist for ages for a bloody good reason. It really wouldn't take much for these hosts to check if a website contains spam, hell half the time you can just check the file names and directory structure as these arses really do go for the easy option everytime.

One of my previous antispam gizmos had a list of free hosts and their abuse emails, it used to send them a complaint email with a copy of the attempted spam and the domain it was pushing. It was pretty effective as the hosts got fed up with all the abuse emails that came in and used to shut the sites down fairly quickly. Sorry if it gave you a headache guys, but if you policed your own system I wouldn't be getting crap from spammers hosted by you would I? I'm seriously considering resurrecting that for the new version, so be warned if you run a free hosting service huh? ;)

Anyway I suppose it's time I wandered off and made a start on the recode,
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