If you haven't already heard, T-Mobile US is being bought by AT&T. Also, once the merger is complete, AT&T will be repurposing the T-Mobile 3g towers and all T-Mobile 3g phones will stop working on 3g. According to AT&T this is good for customers and AT&T. I left Verizon to switch to T-Mobile and never even considered AT&T because of all the horror stories as well as their horrible pricing and service. So of course it would be better for AT&T to buy them rather than compete as is customary with large corporations.

Yes, deal means T-Mobile users will need to upgrade: today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42195939/ns/today-today_news/

AT&T drags t-mobile into a pit of dispair: www.pcworld.com/article/222719/atandt_drags_tmobile_into_pit_of_dispair.html

Thousands Likely Laid Off If AT&T, T-Mobile Merger Approved - WSJ.com: online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110321-712528.html

Petition against the merger: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/stop-t-mobile-from-being-bought-by-att/

Obviously, lots of people are against this and hate it. The funniest part is when T-Mobile's facebook makes a post about ANYTHING the only comments they get are of hate against the merger.

I switched hosting companies from Godaddy to Hostgator. They seem to have faster load times on pages. It's also cheaper. One of the really nice things is not being bombarded with Godaddy's ads for their products and services and also not having to deal with thier site navigation which was a horrible pain in the ***. 

:D

Wife:  Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY spam!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?

I was getting lots of spam comments recently. I don't know why. The spam comments make little sense and only complete idiot's would click any link they may have contained. Even funnier is that some of them were pointless and didn't have a link but just something that may or may not have had to do with the article at all. I've experienced that with wordpress blogs initially and had thought it was only a wordpress issue as in they were specifically targeted...but apparantly not.

So anyway, I decided to use e-mail validation on the back end. Basically it just validates the the email domain is a real one. This will prevent the spammers from getting spam through using completely fake email addresses. If you don't see your comment after posting it, it's because its posted but not active yet. :P

If you have a comment section thats getting spammed, check this link out http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9585 and if you know how to edit php, you can modify the comment code of wordpress or whatever software to help eliminate the spam or at least force them to use legitimate email addresses. (at least the @whatever.com part). I prefer to do whatever I can to allow comments without much moderation. I also hate doing those bot tests with the letters that I can never read...

Edit:

Well, they did just that. Now they are using @gmail.com for the spam. :(   Maybe I'll try a simple anit-bot question...

This is more of a precautionary entry. I've been looking to get a Blackberry Bold 9700 for a little bit now, and checked a few things on it. I use T-Mobile and the main reason for getting the 9700 instead of the 8900 is simply the 3G aspect of the 9700. As of this posting, the BB 9700 is around $400 on ebay. If you use T-Mobile, or even if you don't, the best Blackberry 9700 to get would be the T-Mobile version.

The T-Mobile version is the only version that will work with T-Mobile's 3G network. If you buy an unlocked AT&T 9700 it WILL NOT WORK on T-Mobile's 3G. The T-Mobile 9700 WILL WORK on AT&T as well as T-Mobile though. So if you use T-Mobile, do not buy a Blackberry 9700 unless it's the T-Mobile version. The T-Mobile version will also work with AT&T 3G network as well. So if you use AT&T, it doesn't matter whether you buy an unlocked T-Mobile or AT&T Blackberry 9700.

T-Mobile's network uses the 1700 and 2100 mhz bands for its 3G network and REQUIRES both of them on a phone for it to work with the 3G. If it only has 2100, it won't work on T-Mobile 3G.