now I feel bad

I didn't mean to spoil HBP for people with the comic. I didn't think the title was much of a spoiler but I didn't think of how it's easy to figure out what it means if you've heard other spoilers.

So, to everyone who was spoiled who didn't want to be, I'm sorry. I'll be more diligent about the spoiler warnings in the future.

but there's good news

...for me, anyway. My Alexa rank has broken 500,000! My daily average visits are higher than they've been since February. Cool. I just have to keep the new content coming...

(Just for scale, Mugglenet is in the 2000s. But 499,whatever is still good.)

two questions

1. I recently discovered that bots have been spamming my guestbook with text ads for sites selling Xanax and crap. I deleted those entries and I've put in code so there can't be usable html in the comments field. Then this morning I had three e-mails (I'd written the code to begin with that makes it e-mail me when an attempt to make an entry fails) and there were three failed attempts all in a short span of time. Could it be that the code that turns html into plain text has prevented the bots from posting? I would have thought the result would be that I'd just have to delete the bot entries but at least their links wouldn't work. I tried doing a test entry myself and it worked fine. Odd.

So the question is: has anyone else had experience with this sort of thing?

2. Where did everybody get the Harry Potter PowerPuff Girls icons? Those are cool.

2b. Look at my new Snape icon. I colorized the picture from the book. Isn't it nifty? Except in retrospect, it sort of looks like he farted and set something on fire. But he didn't. It might look better without the smoke. I just love the smudgy tool.

(no subject)

Yet more spoilers.

( HBP spoilers )

In other news, I am still waiting for info from other people to be able to do my work. Thank goodness for the internet.

Crap, I just remembered, I need to finish my programming assignment today. I've almost finished writing the code and it's not too complicated so testing and debugging shouldn't take too long tonight (crossed fingers). Hooray for comments! Anyway, it's not a disaster if I don't turn it in today but I want to stick to the schedule I've set for myself.

wait, what?

( spoilers again )

goddamnit, it's not that implausible!

Dinosaur comics on Harry Potter
(no spoilers)
(no real ones, anyway)