It's getting cold in North Pole

I wouldn't be right if I didn't complain about the cold here in Alaska. That is a favorite subject around North Pole this time of year. Last night it got down to -38 F and now it is only -25 F. If you want to see the temperature for North Pole a website with a weather station readings and graphs on it is at wild Alaska

Today I added a new bulletin board to electrician(2).com. I used to have almost the same bulletin board up for years until the gambling and porn sites bombed it with so much spam that I was spending an hour a day editing the stuff out. This new board has some neat security features such as banned word and ip lists. A group calling themselves the nms group has taken several of Matt Wright's Perl scripts and rewrote them to be more secure. Matt Wright was a 17 year old kid in the late 90's that gave away many scripts for guest books, bulletin boards, and form mail processors. He was heavily criticized by the professionals because his scripts had security flaws in them. They were ok in the beginning but as more and more abuses cropped up on the Internet, his scripts became rather useless. Today, the Internet is plagued with abusive users from all over the world that will do mischief just for the fun of doing it.