MINIsOnTop sponsorship from MINI of Peabody

Posted on by Ian C.

Once again we are happy to announce that MINI of Peabody will be supporting MINIsOnTop this summer – this year, the dealership has stepped forward to streamline Saturday morning by sponsoring BREAKFAST at the Attitash Grand Summit hotel!

This means that MINIsOnTop attendees can get up Saturday morning from their luxurious Attitash Grand Summit room 🙂 and head down to a “banquet” with everyone else, then head over to Loon to join in the Saturday morning festitivites.

Here is the planned menu for Saturday morning:
Chilled Orange and Cranberry Juice
Freshly Baked Breakfast Favorites with Sweet Butter and Fruit Preserves
Country Fresh Scrambled Eggs
Breakfast Potatoes
Cinnamon French Toast with Warm New Hampshire Maple Syrup
Your choice of Country Breakfast Links or Honey Smoked Bacon
Also available, Tea & Coffee

Delicious!

Shut down by spam comments

Posted on by Ian C.

Some readers may have noticed GBMINI slow or non-responsive today 😦
Turns out, GBMINI was hit hard by comment spambots!

Looking through the access log files tonight, I see …

208.111.154.* had about 500 accesses, but that seems to be a legitimate search engine identifying itself as www.searchme.com (and I just visited searchme.com – it’s quite impressive!)

67.159.45.10 has almost 3000 accesses, looks like a search engine but doesn’t identify itself.

83.233.30.104 has 1,771 attempts to post comment spam.

91.207.4.210 has 1,795 attempts to post comment spam.

So, the last three IP addresses are now blocked – I’ll let a valid search engine visit, but not the “spammy” one!

I also made a change to the comment filenames, which should deflect some comment spambot attacks, and shouldn’t have changed normal commenting.

Black cars require Zaino

Posted on by Ian C.

I believe it’s a rule! Warm enough today to wash and do a quick shine … I don’t have all the “stuff” to do a full blown multi-hour effort, but I’m happy enough with the results …

One thing I discovered while washing the Q5 … it’s bigger than a MINI! I needed to stand on a chair to reach all the roof 😉
Also, my cleaning products need refreshing! The only shampoo I found was P21S, and it was rubbish!