It's interesting seeing the different patterns of blog spam that I get between several of the blogs / podcast sites that I run.

• On Open Metalcast, it's mostly the "Wow, this is informative" variety, mixed in with a bunch of cyrillic characters.
• On Lococast, it's also the "Wow, this is informative …

Just wanted to take a quick moment to thank folks on this first inaugural Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day. There's a lot of folks that work tirelessly to help make the community what it is, and we don't say thank you nearly enough to those folks who give their time willingly …

(These are somoe lyrics that I came up for a Monty-Python-esque march. If someone wants to put them to music, please feel free.)

If you think your job's a joke

Well, blame Obama

If your state won't let you toke

Well, blame Obama

If your pension's up in smoke

or …

Rick and I spent last weekend at the 1DevDay Detroit conference, held at the beautiful Compuware building in Downtown Detroit. Unlike conferences like PyOhio, Pycon, or Ohio Linuxfest, the conference wasn't centered around one particular piece of technology, but was instead focused on the craft of developing software.

On Friday …

Here's a quick little ditty I wrote to the spammers at Information Week / Techweb to attempt once again to get off of their e-mail mailing lists:

Hello,

I'm not sure what I need to do in order to never ever hear from your company ever again, but apparently unsubscribing from …