I bet yer all dying to know how my "Hang The Wanker" game is going, so here's a swift update with Februarys results. These results only reflect a partial month though as the game didn't start until the 13^th : In total there were 2,212 wankers who decided to participate, making a total of 10,653 attempts to win the prize ...... they all failed ..... bitch huh? Of course the number one challenger was 81.177.14.26 who had 606 attempts before I decided to ban their arse from the server completely, a game's a game but this tit just takes the piss.

Whilst all this looks like just a bit of fun it does have a serious side. Every single one of these hits that have been stopped have been shown a "piss off you wanker" message which is about 140 characters in length. If they hadn't been stopped at the door then each one of them would have involved the whole of the evocore being loaded, several database hits whilst it struts it's stuff, and then the bandwidth of sending the page to a wanker ... all 50,123 characters of it. If you multiply those figures up, you have a bandwidth saving of 532,468,899 characters alone ( just over half a gig :| ). God knows how much cpu/mysql resources I've just saved as well.

Now I don't know about you lot, but personally I prefer to use that half a gig of bandwidth and the associated cpu and mysql resources to serve up my blog to the twisted few [i]that actually read it[/i]! .... wierd or what? Don't get me wrong, I have shedloads of bandwidth going idle, and the cpu is hardly breaking into a warm, never mind a sweat, as my blogs pretty much all on its lonesome on this box, but I begrudge wasting any server resources on spammers ..... unless it's to play games with them ;)

Anyway, I think it's time I wandered off and added some new rules to the game so that the spammers don't get bored ....
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