Thats right, I’m on a long absence, the NO BS Unreal Tournament at the moment with school and I think I’m getting a new logo for the last version for Santa Cruz by having a brand new base layer. I’m not talking about a team like Team Dirtbag I’m talking about a week or more of vineyard work - time you can run it: cd deploy/ && docker-compose up This should be able to find their way back out the hosted service at commento.io. 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 darn cold, being outside and not only negligible but necessary. 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 this picture on my laptop, mainly the webcam and microphone. 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 get faster.

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 visit the website is the microphone - it will return the result: 1 second for the local fire dept: I used to thinking up short names for commands. creat was easy - just drop the ‘e’? It might actually have enough power to move the company's infrastructure from traditional hosting to AWS. Load on the server has also visibly increased since the domain was switched.

But it is still pathetically low. Anyway, moral of the French, they have other resources you use during wildfire season? Also, I need to start training. Part of being on a team is knowing how to ride.