Ginger The Cat

Doohingus

For my amusement this morning I watched Momma do battle with the raccoon.  You know, I didn't know raccoons could run so fast as when my Momma kerploooshes them with the SuperSoaker.  Raccoon probably grumbled, "Dang, first it's cold out here, I'm hungry and now I'm all wet."  It was a solo raccoon that had kind of a small head and not too round/fat body.  From what Momma learned from a coworker this is probably a female as they tend to be smaller & travel alone vs. those big bad boys that come in a pack of six and are huge (juvenile males).  In the end though the persistent raccoon won and Puffalump & G2 will go foodless until Momma comes home from work tonight.

Momma set up FeedBurner email subscription doohingus so now if you'd like, you can sign up to be notified when I update here.  It's configured to send one email a day even if I write a kajillion times...which doesn't happen because of all the naps that interfere with too much work.  Look towards the bottom of the left nav bar for signup thing.

Whoa, look at the time -- I'm almost late for my morning nap!

A New Place

My Momma switched my blog back over to Typepad instead of using Movable Type over on my own place.  She said it am easier to switch around the design and to tweak stuff.  She did notice how easy it was to import all of my stuff from Movable Type over to Typepad -- the two blogging platforms are put out by the same company and they really did make it easy and not sneak in some stuff that wouldn't make it as easy as pie.  Another reason for the move was Momma said it was getting to be too much work and she just wanted me to have fun on here.  I leave these things up to Momma.  One thing I know though is if it's too much work then she'll need a nap.  A nap with Momma is the best.

Momma is still busy working over there in changing domain pointers and redirects and all of that stuff.  Some of it could take up to 24-48 hours.  I don't think I'll try to stay awake until all the dust settles.

*sigh*

Sorry...shutting off comments for awhile. Momma was getting used to wading through the hundreds of spam comments sitting in the 'waiting to be approved' mailbox every day but now even some of those are slipping through and being published automatically. And they're porn links. And we don't do porn on this site.

Back to my nap.

Trouble-Makers Make Me Tired

Every now and then my site gets an attack of spamming comments. They make me tired. They make my Momma tired. Just today alone there have been 117 bogus comments left.

Why do people do it? How much fun can that be to leave bogus comments on a cat's site for goodnes sake??!

In the past Momma's tried a variety of things to make leaving a comment harder for a bot to do. She's even done crazy things including upgrading Movable Type to the newest and greatest...which then has hosed my entire site.

For now my Momma is going to do the easiest and most effective thing to stop the spamming. She's shut off the ability to leave comments at all. Which means I don't get to hear from my poodie friends but it's just a temporary thing. When Momma's done this in the past it's been extremely effective in stopping the spamming until the next time.

This is supposed to be fun, not a lot of work. I think I need a nap. I think my Momma needs a nap too.

*peeks out*

Is it safe-eeee to turn on comments again?

:::scampers under the bed:::

Inbox Overflow

The ability to leave comments on this site has been shut off for the time being. The amount of spam email coming in is more than my Mommy wants to deal with right now. It just keeps flowing in every 10 minutes more and more until we're buried. Adjusting the anti-spam filter has become time consuming as well and Mommy is crabby. I'm exhausted watching her all weekend.

Mommy can't decide if she'll just leave comments off for a few days to see if this stops or if she'll put some sort of authentication in place.

I think it's surely naptime.

Blog Subscription

The blog subscription is broken. Any of you that have kindly signed up previously to be notified when this blog was updated or a new comment added will not have an automagic email sent anymore.

I'm sorry this is broken. It's unknown at this time if it will be fixed.

Green Eggs and Spam

My Momma would like to apologize to those of you that subscribe to this blog and the spamming that took place last night and this morning.

Movable Type has been upgraded this morning. The new version has a lot more anti-spamming tools built in. Please be patient as Momma plays with the various settings.

We now return you to our regularly scheduled flying penguin show.

Shutterbug Mania

My Mommy wanted me to tell you all thank you for all the nice things you wrote in comments yesterday. My Mommy blushed and giggled like a schoolgirl at the compliments! And hey Scooby -- My Mommy wanted to pass along congratulations to your Mommy and Daddy too -- 25 years is a long time! My Mommy and Daddy are old too. Especially my Daddy! He's like eleventy billion years old.

Mommy thumbnailed a cam image over in the sidebar to the right. It should be pretty much a live representation of the PC family room cam. Clicking on the image will take you to the main web cam page.

I see at the moment the camera is pointing towards the futon. :::sigh::: That's my favorite nap spot.

I heard my Mommy and Daddy talking and it won't be too long before my Daddy plans to buy my Mommy a real digital camera. The webcam isn't torture enough??! And isn't it bad enough when she whips out that camera phone and sticks it in my face? I wonder if I'll have to go hide under the bed for peace and quiet.

Another Cam!

I need to send my Mommy back to work. In her spare time she's set up the iSight on the iBook so that it beams pictures to the web cam page.

I will have no privacy. None. Zero. Gurgh.

Say "Cheese!"

Hmm, I don't know if I'm thrilled about this but Mommy got the web cam going again.  Look for the link in the right sidebar under Contact.

Update

For some reason, even though this site has an account for TypeKey registration, it is not being recognized.

So.

Mommy has some filters on. Some IPs are banned. And commenting is back in the usual manner until Mommy can find time to set up that MT-Blacklist thingie.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

*sigh*

I'm sorry but commenting is broken for now.

Meanies

I'm so sorry for the spam comments this site has been receiving. The only people that will have really noticed this are those of you that have subscribed to this website because now you're getting an email from me with all of them.

My Mommy just turned on TypeKey registration required to comment on this blog. She is going to install MT-Blacklist as well but that takes time and this registration step was the fastest way she could think of at 4 in the morning.

So for now, you will see "You are not signed in. You need to be registered to comment on this site. Sign in" on the comment page. It really is a painless process and I love getting your comments so please sign in.

*meow*

New Feature

Mommy has been playin' around with the behind-the-scenes techno stuff on my blog. She really broke it for awhile yesterday but put it back together.

Anyway, this morning she added a 'Subscribe' feature making it possible for you to sign-up and get notifications of new posts and/or new comments.

After you sign-up and receive the first notification email, you will be able to click on the links leading you to manage your subscription. You can easily change the choices from getting notifications of new posts and comments (the default) to just posts or just comments. It's also easy to unsubscribe too.

Hooya Mommy!

Moving Things Around

Things are being moved around here. My Mommy has been busy moving my blog from one place to another and switching domains and and and. Makes me tired.

It must be nap time.