Category: Personal
A gang of Turkish spammers have found my site
I woke up this morning and found 50 or so messages in my inbox saying that someone had left a comment on my website. Turns out that lukemcreynolds.com had been “profiled” in the r10.net forums as being an easy target for comment spam.
I found out the source of all the spam by looking at my referrer logs: all the new hits on my site were coming from http://r10.net/dmoz-ve-diger-dizinler/663993-kisa-sureli-dofollow-paylasimlari.html. In case the link gets taken down, here‘s a link to the content of the frontpage (PDF).
Anyway, I deleted all the spam comments and disabled commenting on the site for a little while. Commenting is back up now, but I’ll be keeping a close eye on things. It pisses me off that people are making money off of causing me work.
The person who posted the initial links to my site, inviting other to spam it, was “Serdal_Altundal”.
Posted on Jun 23, 2010 - 06:34 PM
David LaGrand Promises Never to Become A Lobbyist
Just saw a press release from David LaGrand. David, who’s running for Michigan State Senate, has pledged to never become a lobbyist if he he’s elected to state office. I worked on his 2006 State Senate campaign, and know him and his family personally. David’s “no lobbying” pledge doesn’t surprise me in the least. In my experience, David LaGrand honestly only wants what’s best for Grand Rapids and Kent County, and becoming a lobbyist after his term(s) are up will do a lot more harm than good for Grand Rapids and West Michigan in general. I wish a lot more politicians would have the same commitment to the better good that David has.
The full press release is available here:
Posted on Jun 07, 2010 - 05:52 PM
Desktop Wallpaper - 100+ images!
I’ve been collecting cool-looking desktop backgrounds for a long time, and I’ve just decided to put them online to share with everyone. You can check them out at http://lukemcreynolds.com/wallpaper/.
Let me know what you think, or if you know the source for one of the images I wasn’t able to find a source for.
Posted on Apr 20, 2010 - 12:47 AM
Fun little toy I made: a Reddit dubstep application
Check it out: http://dubstepp.com/. Basically, it scrapes reddit.com/r/dubstep for YouTube links (tracks) and aggregates them all in one place.
I particularly like the search function. It’s actually quite useful.
Posted on Dec 07, 2009 - 05:41 PM
Freelance Invoice Templates
A friend of mine just asked me to send him the invoice template I use for my freelance web development work. I did that, and decided that I might as well share my invoice templates with everyone else, too!
I’ve cleaned them up a bit, and they’re available in .odt and .doc format. This template is in portrait format - I have the same template in landscape format that I can put up later if you’d like.
These templates are free for you to use in any way you see fit, with or without attribution, and for private, non-profit and personal use.
Download here
.ODT invoice template
.doc invoice template
.PDF invoice template (not editable)
Edit 10/29/09: User sharkd
from Reddit turned my template into an editable .pdf.
Edit 4/6/2010: sharkd’s link to the editable pdf invoice template isn’t working, so I’ve removed it.
Posted on Oct 28, 2009 - 09:18 PM
Sacramento Dubstep
After a long time, I found a Sacramento dubstep artist - 303 Sumatra. He plays down at the Image VIP Lounge once a month - I’m going to check him out in November.
The best source for dubstep in Sacramento I’ve found are the “Boom” events. I usually find out about them from 303sumatra’s MySpace page.
Also, shameless plug time: I made dubstepp.com a little while ago. It’s a great dubstep music aggregator/listening channel - it scrapes http://reddit.com/r/dubstep/ for tracks and puts them all in one place. dubstepp.com makes it really easy to find new artists and songs. Check it out - I think you’ll like it!
Posted on Oct 19, 2009 - 06:05 PM
I’ve Been Loving This Song Recently
Gorgeous - possibly a better song than the original, even. The song is called “Archangel”, and it’s on Burial‘s Untrue album. This is Phaseone‘s remix.
Posted on Jul 23, 2009 - 04:28 PM
