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Since I hadn’t updated for so long I decided to go and look at the stats for the site. I do this every time I haven’t posted for a while, mainly just to check if anyone still visits Burning Salad and to laugh at the consistently idiotic phrases people type into Google before ending up here. With regard to people visiting Burning Salad, I’m always pleasantly surprised to find that people don’t jump ship when there’s a bit of a gap in transmissions. And regarding the search phrases, well they’re always bemusing and funny and it probably says as much about what I’m writing about as it does what people are looking for. For the record, this months choice cuts are: “fraggle rock”, “alien hands salad”, “punched in the throat”, “give me money” and “martianchronicl” (this one appears every month).

Anyway, when I checked this month, not only had the number of hits not dwindled, it had reached an all time high- a veritable spike of activity.

‘Yikes’, I thought, ‘that’s weird (They obviously prefer it when I don’t write anything)’.

It was slightly suspicious however, and so I trawled through all of the logs in more detail. And guess what? It wasn’t lots of people hitting the site to re-read a short post about a remote control mouse (the rc mouse is broken now by the way, The Shape kicked its head in good and proper). It was, in fact, the result of the site being subjected to a barrage of spam.

A veritable onslaught. It’s lucky I had already battened down the hatches by tweaking a few things (and fixing up some other stuff that I’m not even going to mention). Seriously. If this shite had gotten through there would have been about 200 adverts for Viagra and online casinos cropping up here every day. There’s always some idiot willing to fuck things up for everyone else but this time it didn’t work. Because I am such a smartypants. Ha ha.