Accusative, but in a tecky sort of way:
Dang site owner you have lots of odd error codes on your blog that says parse error unexpected T String in line 19
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Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely 
March 9th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
I’m jealous.
You get the interesting ones, while I just get spam offering bargain prices on Vicodin.
Dang you! I’m sure you’re on those error codes right now. Best of luck.
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March 9th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Paul_In_Houston: don’t worry, I get those too. But they go directly into my spam filter, and get deleted. I feature the most amusing ones that escape the spam filter. I delete them manually.
March 9th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Query:
Is your spam filter a feature of WordPress?
Or is it an external application you’ve added on.
With blogger.com, my spam filter is ME (unless I’ve missed something, which I could well have).
Just idle curiosity, as I am a loooooong way from having to deal with the volume that you do.
Thanks.
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March 9th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
neo: Possibly someone was trying to parse one of your web pages as valid XHTML.
Click the “Valid XHTML” link at extreme bottom right to see what I mean. Lots of errors and warnings.
It’s not your fault of course. I’m somewhat surprised that WordPress doesn’t do a better job. Running the page source through HTML Tidy would fix a lot of these problems.
March 9th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Paul_In_Houston: yes, it’s a part of WordPress. WordPress has a lot of advantages over Blogger in terms of control of comments. That’s really why I went over to it.
March 9th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Actually, its a “techy” sort of spam bot – or “techi”, I’m not sure which.
But its definitely not “tecky”.
Sorry, couldn’t help it.
James
March 9th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
James: actually I had “techy” first, but I Googled it, and found this, which I preferred because it seems more phonetic.
So there. Let it never be said that I don’t try to do heavy-duty research for this blog!
March 9th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
She may have been trying to combine “techie” and “tacky” (trying not to dwell too much on Malvina Reynold’s “Little Boxes”)
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March 9th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Check the email. Does it say rahme@whitehouse.com ?
March 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
All I ever get are Viagra advertisements. Are the spammers trying to tell me something?
Also, every once in awhile, a helpful Nigerian has a cool get-rich plan for me. All I have to do is give him access to my bank accounts and I’ll be rich, rich!
March 9th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
And that goes for your cat, too!
Don’t ask me what it means. I got it from my mother. She got it from her grandmother. Who didn’t know either. But it feels so good to say.
March 9th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
MikeLL: this isn’t email spam. This is blog or website spam. A different breed of bot.
March 9th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Obama’s thugocracy/fascistic/HugoChavezlike/non-incompetence/plannedtakeover/ChicagoWay/communist/socialist
http://www.redstate.com/haystack/2010/03/09/obama-the-will-of-the-people-be-damned-ill-decide-who-can-go-fishing/
Anybody need more proof? Yes, today …. I’m of the view that Obama is able and willing to do MORE to the U.S. and we are not protected from him.
March 9th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Dear people with Palin Derangement Syndrome,
http://www.floppingaces.net/2010/03/09/pds-on-display-sarah-palin-used-canadian-health-care-as-a-child-and-paid-for-it/#more-35294
Repent ! Denounce ! Become literate and informed !
March 9th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
I have been getting lots of ads telling me that lots of russian ladies want to meet me… and better yet the spammers make them appear like they are from coworkers in my office… so i am like, dude the marketing department is trying to hook me up with russian ladies, LOL hilarious.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:19 am
neo: I often click to your blog via Google Reader.
I’m mildly curious why sometimes I see a new post from you that shows up on Reader but when I click the link I get a 404 error.
I see this now with a post titled “Ah, what’s $868 billion…” that is dated yesterday. See http://neoneocon.com/2010/03/09/ah-whats-868-billion/ .
March 10th, 2010 at 10:21 am
Baklava: I did belatedly respond to you at http://neoneocon.com/2010/03/06/the-deficit-the-obama-administration/#comment-149113 .
March 10th, 2010 at 10:58 am
Hux,
Thanks. Good stuff. I responded
March 10th, 2010 at 11:35 am
Huxley, I get that same 404 error on your link.
Maybe she started to put something up and changed her mind, with Google Reader catching it before she withdrew it.
Or, maybe she has a draft version that was caught by the reader (no idea if that’s even possible).
That’s TWO maybes right there. Not very useful at all.
This is a black art; not a science.
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March 10th, 2010 at 11:51 am
huxley: thanks for calling my attention to that disappearing post. I think what may have happened there (and perhaps this happens more than I know) is that I published the post, and then changed a word or two (usually grammar or spelling corrections) and thought I republished it. But sometimes for some reason it goes into a “private” mode where it’s there when I look but other people can’t see it. I’ve noticed this once or twice before but only after the fact.
Strange. I’m not sure what causes it. I’ll make it public now, although it’s a day late and a dollar short (actually, a few billion dollars short, as you’ll see).
March 10th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
neo: Sounds like the post showed up on the web long enough to be caught by the Google cache, but WordPress withdrew it while you made changes.
A general FYI to people — once web pages go into the Google cache it takes a long time for them to be flushed, if ever, if the pages are changed or deleted.
I was a web consultant for my church. When they were adding content to their website, they moved some discussions that had been members-only into the full glare of the internet and Google searches.
One woman had related her incest story years back and to her horror she discovered that that story had become one of the top links when googling on her name.
Google does have a process for flushing the Google cache but it took longer and was trickier than I expected.
March 10th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
yuck
Thus my name is Baklava….