Hi. MCiOS will be unavailable for most of the day, UK time. Pardon the inconvienence. It should be up by mid-to-late afternoon.

Everyone enjoying their Easter? I've got some spring cleaning I've been putting off, and some painting I've been putting off, oh, and some other domestic stuff [I've been putting off] - (you get the idea) and I'm waiting to hear whether I've got a job. I would much rather not have been left to stew over the long weekend, truth be told. Hope I get to hear before Thursday . . .

Oh look, there's a robin.

Started sanding down some woodwork to paint it, then realised I'd bought the wrong type of paint. Ho hum. And jerry's back (different flat) so we'll have to get Dave back in to flush him/her out.

[Simons] Stayed at a country pub in Bradford-on-Avon [N Wilts] last night - had an early morning coffee standing out the back and was rewarded with the sight of a plumptious [sp?] robin doing some serious nest-building. In fact, there were plenty of birds scooting back and forth a-laden with twigs and stuff. Call me old-fashioned, but I have to say - it was a sight to gladden my heart.

[Chalks] You're old fashioned.

9 su 10! Ottenerlo! Siete buoni! [Spam eliminato -- rab]

Which reminds me, I must write a 'Delete f*@kwit' module.

That was easier than expected. Given me the opportunity to wash off some of the graffitti that's accumulated over the years.

And the flat's just been Daved. I'd forgotten how entertaining he is in his mouse-destroying ways.

Katharine's a little traumatised though. She kind of hoped they would just "go away"....

Yikes! looks apprehensive.

The graffiti at the end of the 'So help me God...' game is very weird. It's clearly spam - there's been about one attempt per hour to spam that game (so I've closed it) but it's very odd spam.

And since its whimsy is not entirely contra the spirit of this site, I'm tempted to leave it in...

Having just gone and looked, I think you're right. "Zhili byli" = "Silly billy"?

Ich besichtige deinen Aufstellungsort wieder bald fur sicheres! Übrigens, bin ich ein Arschloch

Schön. Looks like the link threshold might have to be reduced if this game is starting to be targetted.

What is the purpose of those links in random websites anyway? Is it supposed to get picked up by search engines or something?

[snorgle] I dunno really. Just presumed its cos they're twats!

[snorgle] Yes, but I suspect it may be counter-productive. If link spam is not removed, that suggests the site it's on is moribund. If the link spam is removed, that means the site is live and the spam is unwelcome. And if the search engines score -1000000 page rank points when a link is removed, and only +1 page rank point when a link is added, spam-that-gets-removed very rapidly depresses the original inflated page rank scores. I assume the search engines' page rank algorithm is a bit more sophisticated than that, but I think that captures the gist of what they can do.

So, err, should I remove it then?

Hell, yes. :-)

Duly dusted.