tstarback's blog

The Six Million Dollar Man

I loved this show and clearly it made a deep impression on me.

I've come to measure almost everything as a BSF (Better Stronger Faster) index.
It doesn't have to be all three, it can just be "Better" or it could just be "Faster."
Anything higher than a 1 is an improvement. If it's negative, don't bother.

Comcast Cable

My family recently started having trouble with our Comcast HD channels.
No, this is not a Comcast rant per se, it just helps illustrate my point.

Background of Drupal SEO Spam Issue:

We host another drupal site (saveagallon.org) that recently became inundated with SEO spammers (A.K.A. Link farm and Spamdexing) that only wanted to add their spammy links to the user profile page. Analytics showed us that most of this traffic was coming from the Philippines, India and Pakistan. Suddenly our site jumped from 5 new accounts a day to over 50 then 75.