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I just got back from a required expedition in the Adirondacks for my last college credit… it will be nice not to jump through any more hoops (aside from work, which is better IMHO because it's confined to 8 hours a day).

So, spam: since the hosting switch, we've been able to implement the anti-spam tactic suggested by an anonymous editor (setting $wgSpamRegex to in LocalSettings.php), plus implement two other anti-spam measures (as of this evening):

1. Blocking edits from open proxies, which it seems the spammers are using
2. Re-installing the SpamBlacklist extension, which we lost when we migrated hosts. 

I have a feeling #1 will take care of a lot of the spam we're seeing right now. It's a little unwiki (see the discussion on the page linked above), but I think we should at least try it for a few months.

<h2>HLS dropped from Pink Sheets</h2>

 So [[Huntingdon Life Sciences]], aka HLS aka Life Sciences Research Inc. (their new name) aka LSRI, was recently dropped from the Pink Sheets (a third-tier stock exchange), after a few months on the Over The Counter Bulletin Board (a second-tier one), and about seven months after not being listed on the NYSE. This is a pretty huge victory for the anti-HLS campaign; I have a feeling that if we don't screw this up somehow and if they don't pull something amazing out of their hats, we could see HLS go out of business within a year or two. 

In other good news, vegan prisoner [[Eric McDavid]] is being given decent vegan meals, after a very long a debilitating hunger strike and 100 days in jail.