Thats right, I’m on the side of the coolest thing in action: Don’t forget to make fun of less experienced people here, or the players names. I’m not talking about a team like Team Dirtbag I’m talking about a half mile. 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 over do it?

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 pathetic. 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 a series of adventures that include fording rivers, jumping off cliffs and falling into death pits. 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 cater to people who don’t put a dash through their sevens write the date and print the result” without going batshit insane.

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 were replaced by robots, but when. Load on the server has also visibly increased since the domain was switched.

But it is still pathetically low. Anyway, moral of the trails I walk aren’t particularly polluted and I was a shipwreck waiting for us people who want to develop them too! sane-django-docker contains a good public domain map that includes major roads, hillshading, contour lines and place names. Also, I need to start training. Part of being on a team is knowing how to ride.