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Since Facebook made it's API for developing Facebook Apps available, producing spam with Facebook is virtually inevitable, if you are an active Facebook user. Many Facebook Apps are somehow funny and entertaining, so to send hundreds or thousands of invitations and messages per day to your Facebook friends doesn't really feel like spamming.

Alas, everything seems to come back sometime. I just received a message from a Nigerian woman who wrote me a novel about her life and looks for someone or something. Since it's the first time I noticed this venerable type of spam coming through Facebook it feels a bit less spammy than usually.

Using Drupal's cache can greatly reduce server load, especially if you have lots of non-logged in visitors and many database queries have to executed before a page is displayed. When caching is turned on the HTML output of a page is stored in the cache_page table, so one query is enough to retrieve the HTML output for display instead of hundreds of queries on pages with many blocks, links, etc.

For logged in users pages are not retrieved from the cache but are newly generated each time they request a page. If logged in users post a comment for example they see it immediately after they hit the submit button, wheres non-logged users have to wait until the minimum cache lifetime of the page has expired.

Today I noticed a new feature on MyBlogLog. Members can now tag communities. You can tag your own communities and all other communities too. The users who added a tag are displayed when you move the cursor over a tag.

In the past days I have been flooded with ionolsen comment spam. Fortunately there are useful plug-ins for Drupal, Wordpress, Movable Type, etc to at least reduce the amount of spam you'll actually get to see.

Anyway I damn these stupid bastards who have nothing better to do than wasting the time of other people. Some Black Hat SEOs argue that it's Google that created this problem by introducing the so called Sandbox some years ago. No matter what I think about the Sandbox, this argumentation is typical for these cowardly spammers. It's always someone else's fault.

Anyone who regards this as an invitation to spam me, please go on wasting my time, server bandwidth and so on. I guess you are cumming when reading this.