This blog has had the eRemoval men in. It has moved from a server in a building in Manchester to slightly fancier server in the same building. The new fancy server is a Linux server and has lots of fancy new features such as multiple MySQL databases and lots and lots of Subdomains.

It took quiet a while for it to be shifted and there was a few hiccups, but all is up and running now and so It’s now safe to leave new comments.

New posts coming soon…

I’ve finally finished the new blog design although I suspect there will be some fiddling and a bit bug fixing in the next few days.

This design was made by myself completely from scratch, and is meant to be a cleaner and simpler design. It feature new graphics and a redesigned comments section, which now features nested comments.

Leave me a comment telling me what you think or if you’ve found a bug.

An updated version of this post can be found here; http://abitofpolitics.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/dennis-markuze-religious-nut-job/

I got some comment spam this morning, from the famous Dennis Markuze. He’s a famous Nostradamus nut job who has threatened to kill PZ Myers and all atheists.

He was posting a bit of barely readable silliness which I think was suppose to say that the Theory of Relativity proves that there is Christian god.

After a bit of investigation it looks like he is spamming any blog that belongs to a atheist. He must be using Mojoey’s Atheist Blogroll to pick his victims becaise I’ve never really posted about being a atheist.

Dropping Docs

Names: Dennis Markuze, Dave Mabus, davabus, dathesm, davidmabus, dmab, davmab11
ISP; b2b2c.ca
Email; dmabus@mail.com, davidms@mail.com, dmab@lavabit.com.
IP; 72.12.103.179, 173.178.179.101

Facebook ; main account, sock puppet accounts

Some entertaining reading;

Dennis Markuze -a.k.a. Dave Mabus: Internet Troll and Nutcase
The Mask of Nostradamus
Nostradamus Prophecies – USA
THE DIVINE MONSTER – III, 34
Freedom House and Liberty House
How we stopped Randi’s Million Dollar Challenge
Who the hell is David Mabus?
He even has his own T-Shirt

Last week I received the follow comment on one my C64 related blog posts

Akismet has flagged it up as spam, but when I looked it I found the comment was on topic (the C64 being old school and 80s) the user had a gravitar and reasonable looking email address, so I was tempted to flag this comment as not being spam, but I decided to a little investigation first.

Searching for Britney Bennett on the internet found a Flickr account, on-topic blog comments on moelane.com, deepcapture and simonblog which all look real enough.

Looking at the linked website http://www.britneybennett.com/ it gives big clues about the intent of these blog posts. Lots of pictures of a pretty girl and then some links to the extremely dodgy dating site fling.com

The final nail in the confin for poor Britney Spammett is the IP address used to post 24.10.128.14 is a well known spammer address, and may be the only reason with Akismet spotted it as being spam.

Research this, I found a similar comment spammer Mandy Corvo who has more blog comments. The website used this time is http://www.mandycorvo.com/ which again links to fling.com. This account also uses the following twitter account http://twitter.com/mandycorvo.

Sadly it looks like the war against spam just escalated again.

As you may have noticed I’ve not done much blogging recently, so to make up for it here is a massively long post (for me). I’ve been on a two week break from work ,as a usually do this time of year, and a few things have happened during this break.

First of all was Conor’s 10th Birthday. He had a nice birthday cake and loads of cards also and he got Wii Sport Resort  with two of those new Wii Motion Plus controllers and a lot of new books.

Conor and I have had great fun playing Wii Sports Resorts, but I’m a little annoyed that his random shaking of the Wii Motion Plus allows he to beat me in the Sword fighting every single time.

A couple of days after that it was my Birthday, I’ll skip over my age which I’ve decided to only count in hexadecimal in future.

As a treat to myself I purchased a collection of Retro Video Game albums from Ebay

Some absolutely brilliant stuff here, including the three Remix64 and Back in Time albums and others from Reyn Ouwehand and Makke. Conor took a liking to Karma 64 and asked for it be put in the car.

Now I’ve got all these albums I may even get around to doing that remixed c64 music radio show that I’ve been talking about for almost a year.

The present from my lovely family was rather awesome, being a Sony PRS-505 eBook Reader.

I’ve had loads of eBooks that I’ve want to read sitting on my PCs hard drive for years, but I haven’t been able to read them because I find it very difficult to read a book from a computer screen so this is the prefect present for me. The reader now has a brand new 4GB SD card with a load of interesting books on it.  I’ve already finished a few books from it, it’s very easy to use and I’m very happy with it.

Another birthday to happen in the last two weeks was this Blogs Birthday. It had it’s 8th Birthday on the 8th August, so here’s to another 8 years of sparely posting.

Also during those two weeks holiday, we’ve had a few days out,the nice of which was a trip to Whitby. It was the only place I remembered to take any pictures. I’ve seemed to have got out of habit of taking my proper digital camera out with me everywhere I go, which is quiet a change around for me.

One place I will have my Digital Camera with me, is York this Saturday night. It’s a bit of busy Weekend for me, as I’ve got a Stag Night to fit around a four day summer Karate course.  I will be training on Thursday and Friday Night, training on Saturday morning, then jumping on the train to York for the stag night, and then on Sunday morning I shall be taking the train back from York in time to see the final half day of the course which will have Kata and Kumite Competitions.

Have I used this title before? It seems likely, as it is a massive cliche.

Anyway, I’m gonna copy what those proper blogs do, and give you some suggested blog reading material for the weekend (I’m not sure what happen if you read them during the week). Some of these are a little old, but give me a break, it’s my first go.

• Lemonpillows looks at  the gap between North and South and just what is common sense? 
• Honorabili on the US car industry and why it deserves to fail.
• Cruella talks about the brave women of Afghanistan. 
• Lee Medcalf  rants about the new Star Trek Film and Review Embargos. 
• Anok has a clip from Jon Stewart regarding the right’s feeling of victim-hood. 
• Manic from Bloggerheads asks Why aren’t these people working to protect us? 
• Finally my top link for the weekend is; Poking Food a site where you can see people poke at food (WITH THEIR FINGERS).  They even invite you to participate!

That’s your lot for now, I’ll try and make these a weekly thing.

This week I got three seperate invites to a website called LadsLads.com, which is a little odd as It’s a  Gay Networking Website and I’m not gay. 

I’m not sure if they are spam, as Google doesn’t bring up other people receiving the same message, but I don’t know any the people who have invited me.

The messages appear in the following format;

Mail Title: <USERNAME> of <LOCATION> hay can you rememeber me?

Hi its from <NAME> here in Sunny <LOCATION>

This is to let you know that I’ve got myself up at LadsLads.com

You can see my videos, pictures and blogs not to mention chat with me directly on the live chat.

My new LadsLads is <USER URL>

So thanks, WashyLad , nikelad22, and donmagic but I think I’ll pass.

Well the last post certainly caught a fair bit of attention, in fact it’s the most popular post I’ve written since the move to WordPress. I must blog about current events more often (or just blog more often).

I’ve been Working from home for the past few weeks, and it doesn’t look like I’ll be travelling again in a while, probably not until after the new year. This gives me plenty of time to go stir crazy, but at least it means I spend less time traveling.

Working on ObscureInternet.com as well, been interview some bands from MySpace (first one was published on wednesday, a lovely young lady). The request for interviews got a much bigger response that I expected, I’m still writing and uploading the answers I got for requests I sent out over two weeks ago.

Also I’ve just bought myself a nice new Microphone so I can start broadcasting show live shows for Radio6581. I’ve got a few things to sort out but these should be coming very soon. I’m also thinking of doing some Podcasts for ObscureInternet.

Oh, while I’m on the subject of retro radio,  it’s time to Vote for ROTY 2008! again on remix 64, it only seems like a few weeks since the last awards show.

Fitness wise, I’ve been going Wii-fit intermittantly and I’ve manged to complete Week 2 of Onehundredpushs. I managed to complete more than 81 push ups in one session, which surprised me greatly. The weight is still yo-yo-ing (is that a word? I hope so) but as I’ve said before this doesn’t really bother me.

I’ve also been busy with something else that I’ve got going on at the moment, but it’s a bit of secret and has been for almost two years. I may reveal the secret at the end of the year, but don’t get too excited, it’s not that interesting.

Yes, in case you’ve hadn’t noticed by now I’ve tweaked the design again, and this time I’m happy with the results. 

Here’s a little sneak preview of design for those of you reading the RSS feed. Also when I change the design again this image will also be a nice reminder of how the blog use to look. I’ve changed the design a number of times, but I’ve never really saved screenshots of the previous design, so I can’t really look at the evolution of the site. Archive.org only gives a few of the old designs, and the images (such as the old logos) are missing.

The new design is an attempt to reflect the C64 part of C64Glen. It’s a lot more blue and it uses the Commodore 64 font in the main logo.

The blog is now running using WordPress 2.7 beta 2, and must say, I have been impressed by new dashboard interface and functionality. The only downside is the Blog Stats are missing from the main dashboard screen.

I thought I’d give the new beta of WordPress a try. So far I haven’t noticed a great deal of difference except for the fancy new dashboard screen and the even fancier post editor.

In conculsion; I like it.