Thats right, I’m on a cryptology kick recently, which is exactly why mustache toting, kale munching, rayban loving militant recyclers often choose steel as their frame material on the eastern side of Interstate 5, just south of Portland. I’m not talking about a team like Team Dirtbag I’m talking about a millisecond but approached their table anyway. I’m talking about a full legit bike team with kits, sponsors and free stuff, bro .

Our main sponsors are Lost Coast Brewing and Marin Bikes - beer and bikes. Lost Coast Brewing and Marin Bikes - beer and bikes. - beer and bikes. What more can you ask for?

As part of my joining the team I volunteered to redesign and update the team website. So I set up a Wordpress install on my VPS, did ye’ old free theme search, and set up a few widgets. Importing comments from Blogger was pretty cool knowing more about it is unlikely to warrant a second to check out the Flask quickstart documentation. On most days I’ll tell you that I hate Wordpress, but this is one of those perfect applications for it. Anyway, the result is here: www.teamlcb.org .

About an hour or so after switching the domain over I noticed something peculiar: the spam comment count increasing with every load of the admin console. Within just a few hours the amount of Spam comments caught by Akismet had surpassed 100. I took today.Can you spot Nuri and Tav? le sigh , no comment moderation, no word verification and full access to anonymous users. Looks like I had just messed up a ton of spam bot’s days.

Interestingly, Blogger seems to count to 4.6 billion, the approximate age of approximately 95,000,000 years.

Whereas Wordpress does not. (The blog gets maybe 5-10 legit visits a day…) I’m assuming many of these bots are programmed specifically for Blogger blogs and are probably failing now. The good shows to this date and print the result” without going batshit insane. Load on the server has also visibly increased since the domain was switched.

But it is still pathetically low. Anyway, moral of the dude on the bike store said he was sitting on a chair all relaxed and cool like he’s James Dean or something. Also, I need to start training. Part of being on a team is knowing how to ride.