Punderings

Apologies if I’m overreacting – it’s been a long day.

Has anyone else seen wierd trackbacks from elliottback dot com show up on their blogs, esp. WordPress ones?  I just got an odd one, which simply led to a WordPress blog with zero original content – just trackback’d entries, which are all posted to that blog as if they were the other person’s blog post.  Oh, sorry, they’re all credited as:

“Original post by blah blah and software by Eliott the Google Adwords shyster”

Of course, this guy apparently runs a bunch of other no-original-content blogs (from my admittedly 5 minute searching) which all include only targeted trackback posts from other blogs – and of course, a huge Google AdWords install.

Is it just me, or do I have some backing in being a mite pissed off?  I mean, really, I’m totally small potatoes in the blogosphere, so I really don’t expect to be the target of leeches.  (And Akismet makes spammers work invisible, which is perfect – thanks, Akismet-folk!)

I check back into the hotel – thank you Mary Anne for making the reservation after my flight home was cancelled! – and flip on the tv to rot some brain cells after an exciting week at a work conference.  And a Windows 98 “Windows is shutting down” screen pops up.  I pause, waiting for some ancient self-help video to proceed showing newbies how to use windows.  Nope, the TV has really crashed.  Ooops.

Just that channel (the interactive TV one), luckily.  Let’s go see what old show I can watch for half an hour before I pass out…