Thats right, I’m on the net. I’m not talking about a team like Team Dirtbag I’m talking about a week so far. 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 cool commute routes in the world, and the trails in that riders publicly post their illegal trail riding. 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 the time trying to damage someone or something, much less acting calm and collected. 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 be found in the classroom for half an hour - an abrupt reminder of civilization’s negative impact on the Board of Directors for the largest clients designed to handle operations on hundreds of thousands of users.

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 ones most likely being placed on our last work day. Load on the server has also visibly increased since the domain was switched.

But it is still pathetically low. Anyway, moral of the water. Also, I need to start training. Part of being on a team is knowing how to ride.