Just in: "Google Takes Action Against Spamming Chickens"

Yesterday I remembered that I have this blog (or SLOG) and hopped over to the blogger page to remind myself what I wrote...and Google has locked my blog! The notice merely said that it was locked "for possible terms of use violations". Since the only thing in my blog was a lame chicken metaphor, I wondered what the problem could possibly be.

So I drilled down to an explanatory link, and discovered that Google's robots had decided that my blog had the characteristics of a spam blog! Now, I know that Google has a parsing algorithm that scans the contents of gmail messages, and attempts to match appropriate advertising to keywords in the messages.

So for now, I can only conclude that Google's AI is not only artificial, but also cognitively challenged.

Unwelcome chickens...

This is the third week of the course, and I just poked my head out from under my new stack of very expensive texts, and noticed that this SLOG is a course requirement! And in the course of making this discovery, I also discovered that I have this thing called a 'cdf account' which clearly needed some attention as well. That was a bit of an adventure. Luckily I've had quite a bit of Linux experience, so installing cygwin and ssh'ing into my account wasn't too onerous...

But I digress. This weekend is the weekend that my chickens have decided that my home is their home, and that they are going to take up roosting until they get a better offer. I'm working on a CSC318 group project for which I'm the designated writer, a STA247 problem set and, of course, assignment 1 for CSC236. I'm up to the third question now, so I'm feeling a bit more in control of things, but clearly my lack of CSC165 is going to be a challenge (or roosting chicken). My goal this weekend will be to evict some poultry.