Literal Barrage

So, spammers, what's the deal with trying to spam my blog with "head shop" junk? Bongs, pipes, etc.? E.D. drugs and grass seed too good for you?
Y'all have problems. Seriously.

If you've been having difficulty reaching this site over the past few days (I know that I have, for one…), there appears to be two very good reasons: DreamHost (my hosting provider) has been having ARP issues as well as related DNS problems.
It's at times like this that I really appreciate how DreamHost handles [...]

A few lucky private citizens were lucky enough to be invited to take a tour of the still-under-construction Comcast Center in Center City Philadelphia. One enterprising blogger amongst the crowd documented the trip in pictorial form (the above panorama is an image from the 55th story). There are some incredible shots amongst the [...]

Work has been a little on the crazy side as of late, so my 5th anniversary of blogging (which was yesterday) passed by unnoticed. Mind you, it's not the 5th anniversary of Literal Barrage, whose existence traces to sometime after the run-up to the '03 invasion of Iraq, but rather the anniversary of my [...]

That is, there ought to be a law that allows for the sound public whippings of online stalkers by those affected/aggreived.
As other commenters noted, common sense would allow for Jeff to set upon his stalker (who has threatened his family, particularly his 3 year old son and continues to try to reveal personal information about [...]

I'll say this much for the comment spammers: they certainly seem to be interested in at least entertaining me in their constant attempts to hawk their tawdry wares using my site and bandwidth. For instance, I received this one from "Anna". It starts out sounding relatively innocent:

Hello, my name is Anna! As you [...]

I've been very busy here at WWDC these past two days and thus haven't really had time to post much.
Classes have been interesting and mostly useful. I got a chance to go out and see Ocean's 13 the other night. My one sentence review: sappy, sentimental, a bit contrived, not much suspense, worse [...]