Brettia

Today I was the victim of comment spam. Someone started posting stuff about poker all over the blog. It was obviously a bot, however, because it was using the old MovableType engine to do it. In other words, it was posting comments that weren’t going to show up anywhere, if it weren’t for one of MT’s “features.” You see, the main difference between MovableType and other blogging engines such as WordPress (the one I use) is that MT has to rebuild the entire website (sometimes more than a thousand pages, on large sites) every time a template is updated, and it has to rebuild the HTML for an entry page each time someone comments on it. Because pages are built when updates are made rather than on-the-fly when they are visited, a single comment, or in this case, hundreds of spammy ones, can cause a complete rebuild, overwriting the WordPress PHP files and other parts of the site. Not good. Since I can’t locate the source for my old design and I was wanting to make a new one anyway, expect to see a pretty new layout sometime in January. For now, I’ll be using the default WordPress theme, which isn’t anything special, but works fine nonetheless.

Tomorrow I take the bulk of my final exams. Am I nervous? Never. Am I confidant? Mostly. Am I prepared? Sort of. Am I trusting to fate? Yeah.

Okay, I’m not that bad off. My finals tomorrow are for Honors Algebra 3-4, AP European History, and Spanish 5-6. I’m not the best at math, but the final is supposed to be easy. I am top in my class in AP Euro (according to the latest grade printout), but the final is supposed to be very difficult. I have a 96% in Spanish, but I don’t know much of the culture stuff while I can nail the grammar and spelling part. Really, though, since my exams only count for a small portion of my grade, there is almost no way that I won’t get away with an A in all of my classes. My lowest grade is a 94% in Algebra 3-4, so I should be able to get a B on the final and still keep my A. In AP Euro, I can get as low as a 60% and still have an A (albeit a low one). In Spanish, I can score as low as a 50%-ish on the main final exam (I’ve already gotten full points on the project, written, and speaking portions). So I really should be just fine, with all this cushion.

Tomorrow I will be judged…and hopefully I will be found worthy of continued existence.