Valkyrie's Page of Wonder

January 25, 2006

Augusta Meetup

"Your Ferrets stink!"
I've heard that so many times it's no longer funny. But now I can tell them that my ferrets smell better than whole ferrets. Thats right, for our meet up we got to hold whole(non-fixed...broken?) hobs at the Savannah Lakes Ferretry. Which is run by Mike and Arita.

Now before I continue let me tell you that our biggest ferret is Snap (now called Gordita) who weighs in around 2-3 lbs. But she's fat. Most of our other ferrets are around 2 lbs. They have an odor about them, but so does everyone else.

However, the whole hobs at SLF are HUGE! Weighing in at 5 lbs! Long, muscular, big headed and STINKY! Well, ok, so its not so much stinky as musky. They were busy putting off their wonderful odiferous smell to attract the jills. Unfortunatly, the Jills wernt ready for them. Their two big boys were brothers, but when we were there they were more interested in beating each other up than brotherly love.

After playing with the ferts we ate chips and dip while watching a movie about the Ohio ferret show. Lots of cool stuff and lots of information about showing ferrets. One thing I learned is that just about all of our ferrets will lose points because they are "squirmy". But thats ok, I like them just the same.

Finally...

I had been noticing large amounts of spam in my newly created guestbook... Ok so all but 2 entries were spam and one of those i'm not sure about. Either way I started researching image verification to add some anti-spam to the thing and managed to get it working finally. Now if I can just transfer that knowledge over to cold fusion I can set up the same kind of thing on the guestbook for Moby in the Morning who has also been getting some spam in their guestbook.

Actually I know what I have to do, and I know how to do it. I just dont have the tools to do it like I want. There is this cool program called ImageMagick that is essentially a command-line version of photoshop. Now it's not nearly as powerful naturally but it has its uses. And the one I want allows me to add random text and such to a image and post it on the web for this image verification thing. Unfortuanly the version on the webserver now is about 5 years old. The new version will do what I want.

Haven't made any other major site updates due to lack of time and lack of want after being at the PC all day at work. Speaking of work I've finished work on several sites since the last time I posted:
Peach County Government
Water Dude - A local bottled water delivery service
and...
Rhineharts - A local seafood restaurant that is "Beyond Causal"

Those three sites bring the total number of commerical sites built by me to a whopping 10. A few more of those and I might start making money.