Posted March 30th, 2010 at 12:13PMThe warmer weather has definitely brought out the ticks already, as so far I’ve picked a big juicy sucker off of each dog. I’ve already dosed them both with Frontline – which typically works for about 3 weeks in our experience, not the month claimed – but our stuff might be out of date. Both doggies have gotten Lyme disease before, and one, Ehrlichiois. Considering that we got a dusting of snow within the past week, the grass and weeds have yet to take off and it’s hard to say where they’re picking up the buggers.
Speaking of parasitic bloodsuckers, I’ve been noticing a new form of comment spam that Akismet is rather hit-or-miss on (they’re mostly picked up, a few get through). They appear to be legitimate comments except for not relating much to the post in question. Usually generic “thanks for the post” remarks, and the only link is entered into the website field, directed toward garbage sites with no real content.
But one of these spam comments was nice enough to point out their MO – linking to a blogger page with an automated commenting software for ‘backlinking’ and building up search engine ranks. It’s at the “dofollowblogcommenter” blogger site for those interested, but my investigation is ending at the trialpay.com link for downloading said software.
For now, I’m flagging most of it as spam, unless the comment text could by any conceivable stretch be considered legitimate, in which case I’ll just strip the website link.
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