BarbiLee Brings on the W-T-Fs Part 2

By the time I was half way through what I wanted to publish about BarbiLee yesterday it was 1am and a combination of drink-fuelled exhaustion and common sense forced me to finally give up and go to bed. This means you have to sit through another loony post, but it really does give you a massive indication of the kind of how many types of crazy BarbiLee actually is.

Firstly, as the contents of her homepage has now changed to some random wha-wha message about how she’s a big victim I’ll start with a screenshot of the original:

[img: threats on homepage]

You can clearly see her admitting to having retained Vera’s home details there, and the full screencap is linked.

Next I feel it worth mention the pickly of a diddle that involves “pajamasam70″. There’s a certain hatelisting style website out there stating that Pajama Sam is a retard and that he sucks. (Their words, not mine.) Another website, which is now closed off so I can’t link to it/gather screenshots, stated that BarbiLee had been to the cops and was prosecuting this Pajama Sam because he’d been harassing her. The problem I have with this story is that this Pajama Sam dude mysteriously showed up to spam blogs after Barbi was reviewed and oh, would you look at that.. had the same IP as both Barbi and her supposed boyfriend.

I looked into this, even going so far as scouring their ISP’s website (PenTeleData) and there’s no mention anywhere on the site of forcing shared IPs like AOL frequently do. In fact, the cable/DSL services that they’re on — information kindly provided by Barbi’s own stats — both have either static or dynamic IPs… but as mentioned, not shared. So the only way that Pajama Sam could possibly have the same IP is if he were sat in Barbi Lee’s back garden mooching off her Internet, and this of course assumes they have unprotected wireless. (The chances are slim.)

Further investigation (a 30 second Google search, hehe) shows that Pajama Sam has a liking for wrestling. His YouTube account has wrestling clips and his wikipedia talk page has mentions of reverted edits to wrestler pages. Funny that, because Barbi’s “boyfriend” really likes wrestling too. What a coincedence. The same hobbies, both apparently know Barbi and both come from the same IP. It wouldn’t be too big a leap to assume that either Justin does exist, and likes to pretend to be some dude called Pajama Sam, or Barbi is Barbi and Justin and Pajama Sam. Complex!

At this stage, I’m scarily aware that everytime I read one of Barbi’s comments or posts my IQ drops a few points, but for those who’ve not had the privilege of scouring through it all looking for legal juice, here’s a few screenshots to keep you amused: a series of spam comments; it was all my boyfriend!; more threats (ip disguised because it’s current); and lastly her words of wisdom for little ol’ moi.

It is of course worth mentioning that the only person who thinks Barbi is sane at this stage is Barbi. She was banned from Kawaiiville (along with the second account that allegedly belonged to Justin) even before I got around to writing my post, banned from Snark for spamming us to death with her illiterate tirades of abuse and and despite more than one IP ban at various sites, continues to send abuse. Oh dear.

And I definitely prefer the British spelling of pyjama!

An Update (31st Dec)

The reactions I’ve received to the past two posts are — unsurprisingly — coming in thick and fast. While I don’t want to give away too much of my good evidence, the following screenshots give a clear insight into Crazy B’s true personality. I just want to point out in advance that they do contain profanity so if you’re of a fragile nature, you probably don’t want to read any further.

BarbiLee mocks Tiara, a girl who lost her baby son, calling her a “baby killer” (removed at owners request); BarbiLee pretends to be someone else, calls Tiara a whore (amongst other things); BarbiLee mocks Tiara again through a popular MySpace forum; BarbiLee calls Beth a slut/whore, threatens her with the law; Justin and BarbiLee take it in turns to insult Beth; further threats, BarbiLee calls Beth a “child molesting cunt”; yet more abuse aimed at Beth and finally; a comment live on Beth’s site filled with nastiness.

Pretty sick shit from a pretty deranged mind.

BarbiLee Brings on the W-T-Fs

With the coming of 2008 I’m “celebrating” about 8-9 years on the Internet. In this time I’ve seen some pretty loony people. I’m sure the majority of you are familiar with Krystole, the Internet’s very own layout kleptomaniac? Yep, she’s a bloody loony. Some of you may also know of Janet who owns fuzzypinkslippers.com? A self-confessed loony! However, neither of these well known nutters compare on any level to BarbiLee of kawaiipurinsesu.com.

BarbiLee is… well, she’s female and I’m pretty sure of that. She’s 23 (says her own site) or possibly 24 (says her doll site profile) — because we all know how confusing your own age can be — and has 2 kids (same doll site profile/another profile) or, actually.. possibly only the one? It really depends on which site you ask! That poor 5 year old boy, he doesn’t have his own website (unlike Jasmine); he doesn’t get posted about in kawaiiville forums (unlike Jasmine); his mummy doesn’t create usernames in his honour like “babygrilmata2007″ either.

As well as drastic favouritism to her supposed baby “gril” (mm, baby grill :9) BarbiLee has a major spelling problem. In fact, problem is an understatement of the year. Now, my Dad is dyslexic so don’t think I don’t understand what kind of effect that can have, but this problem is apparently caused by bipolar. I’m no medical professional and my psychological diagnosis skill pretty much hinges on the phrase “she’s loony”, but the last time I checked bipolar wasn’t a learning disability that turned people into total idiots. Although, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong here…

Anyway, I’m bringing you this information on BarbiLee because I want the world to know what a crazy foo’ she is. Even if it doesn’t achieve anything, it’ll make a few people feel better.

BarbiLee has a bit of a vendetta against a girl called Beth. Now, I don’t know this Beth and I don’t know if I’ve ever seen her website, but I do know that Barbi spent time harassing Beth via her tagboard which ultimately resulted in their mutual host deleting Beth’s account. Totally unrelated to this, Vera of Lianko.com left a comment on Barbi’s site complimenting her layout but pointing out her spelling wasn’t doing her any favours. This resulted in Barbi visiting Vera’s site leaving a series of comments accusing Vera of using proxies to get to her site, calling her various names and so on. It’s all a bit uncivilised really (just how I like it). The dates are a bit mixed up in my brain, but basically this two-way back and forth ending up becoming related when Barbi and/or Barbi’s boyfriend pretended to be Beth whilst insulting Vera and vice versa.

So now we have Barbi and her supposed boyfriend Justin bashing Beth and Vera and spamming them with e-mails and comments and accusing them of starting drama. Not one to let the side down, Vera completed an unrequested review of Barbi’s site. It was blunt, but both educational and more than informative. Cue more spam from Barbi and her boyfriend.. only this time she even extended the favour to innocent bystanders V and Belinda!

Somewhere down the line, BarbiLee or her boyfriend managed to find Vera’s whois information and started publishing her home address all over the Internet. In a flurry of desperation, Vera issued an apology for the review and managed to get her host to hide her whois. I believe Barbi’s host was involved and the address details were removed from the public eye.

At this stage, Barbi realises she’s fighting a losing battle spamming the site’s of Vera and so forth (but wouldn’t admit it) and she turns her attention to Kawaiiville, a cutesy forum. She created a series of posts claiming that Vera was a “hatter” (hater) who’d insulted members of Kawaiiville, and a pity post claiming that Vera “says i haked her site“. These posts were all created in an attempt to get sympathy and to make Vera out to be a big bad wolf. Unfortunately for Barbi, I’ve got an account at Kawaiiville and took great delight in disproving some of her/her boyfriend’s bullshit and giving them a public pwning.

During the pwning, I’d persuaded BarbiLee to take down hate messages on her old site against Beth and Vera and pointed out that if she really wanted the drama to end she’d move on with her life. It all seemed to end here… or at least temporarily.

God knows you’re probably confused by now, because I am and I’ve spent 2 months watching this stuff. Basically, at this point we have Barbi and her possibly imaginary boyfriend spamming, posting people’s private information online, harassment via e-mail, pretending to be other people and all the while making threats of “getting the cops in” because Barbi’s the victim. On top of this, we’ve got a blog entry in her Kawaiiville ‘blog’ where she openly admits to having “beat down” a girl and spent time in jail for it. Apparently this makes her an expert on law (but she still asks for illegal serial numbers).

This all culminates in a small ongoing problem. BarbiLee is actively giving away Vera’s home address information via her website. I quote:

i have veras home phone # and address and shit still i will post it hey if you even want to send her a wonderful “gift” e-mail me @ mystical_drama83 {at} yahoo [dot] com i will be more than welcome to give that wonderful info up.

Her host, Candiihost.org, was privately contacted about this issue but instead of actually dealing with it like a professional she forwarded the e-mail to Barbi. Nice. I’m glad I don’t host there!

The sad thing is, I know I’ve missed out a whole shitload of crazy antics. I have screenshots of various comments left, around 30-40 links including various forum profiles in which she’s different ages and effectively pretends to be different people. Google’s cached hate pages and contradictory information. We’ve got the e-mail she’s sent out claiming to have called the cops, in which she includes ALL of Vera’s personal info. I’ve got her quoting that Photobucket of all places wants to sue Vera/Beth. It’s fucking ludicrous. Unfortunately, this post won’t solve much of that, but if it tells a few thousand people what kind of scary stalking nutter BarbiLee is, that’s mission accomplished in my book.

Looking at 2007, Preparing For 2008

Around this time last year I was surmising both a stressful and successful 2006. Although 2007 was nowhere near as life-changing, it still saw me enrol in — and complete the first module of — my first step towards an official qualification in web development. I gained my first pay rise in the job that I still love and a cat! I saw parts of my family ‘unit’ destroyed because of the selfish actions of my brother — the consequences of which only now beginning to repair themselves.

The year itself was more positive than negative, which gives me a good footing to go forth in 2008. As has become my tradition, I won’t be making any resolutions but I would like to see myself complete a few goals.

I intend on ‘dropping’ some of my responsibilities to open up more time for myself (closing fanlistings and other subdomains). I also plan on finishing my SimpleDir replacement which will probably see the end of my free script developing for a little while (upkeep is tedious). That doesn’t mean what I’ve got is going anywhere, it just means I won’t be releasing anything new. I want to dive further into PHP security, and really get to grips with OOP (my procedural background often does me no favours). All in all I want 2008 to be about personal and professional development, improving what I do so that I can further help others.

In a last ditch attempt to give myself a fresh slate to work from in 2008 I’m going through my e-mail and website today trying to do a bit of cleaning. I am determined to start the year on an empty inbox but with 108 e-mails as of this morning, it might be easier said than done. However, I’m being brutal and anything not 100% urgent or necessary is being deleted (yes, that includes various e-mails demanding help easily gained elsewhere). Now, if only I could figure out how to apply the same strategy to the clutter on my bookcase, I’d be on to a winner…

HTML vs. XHTML

Back when I first heard of XHTML it seemed like a brilliant idea. Here was a type of mark-up with rules, and rules mean an excuse to be my normal perfectionist self. It wasn’t long before I’d converted all 200+ pages of my website to this beautiful, lower-case, tidy syntax and was getting the green light from the validator. However, nobody told me why I should be using XHTML or gave a reason for switching much beyond “XML, and thus XHTML, are the way of the future!”

These days whether or not I use XHTML or HTML depends entirely on which DTD I can remember how to spell first, because the superiority of either is entirely subjective. There is no straight answer from the experts on which should be used, and with enthusiasts on both side of the fence piping theirs as the best it’s almost tempting to flip a coin and go with the flow.

On one hand, we are advised that XHTML delivered as text/html (to make it work in Internet Explorer) is “broken” and incorrect. This is hardly disputable — it makes sense that XHTML should be delivered as application/xhtml+xml — however there seems to be little or no evidence on any dramatic difference that this has on the browser or the reader. My “tag soup” may be served on a dented copper plate to the browser, but Google has no problem indexing it as if it were eating off fine bone china. (Lamest metaphor ever!)

It is argued that XHTML as text/html might work now, but what about when you change it to application/xhtml+xml?! Did these experts consider that tag soup fans might not want to serve their pages any differently in the future and therefore their point is redundant?

However, if HTML does everything that XHTML can — which it does — is there any point in using anything but HTML? Surely by not having to self-close line breaks, image tags and the like, and by not having XML declarations/etc in the head of our documents we’re actually saving all important space and bandwidth? Furthermore, even if any self-respecting web geek avoids Internet Explorer like the plague, it doesn’t hurt to give it code it can properly process.

My personal conclusion is that the choice between XHTML and HTML is completely irrelevant. Whether or not you add little forward slashes to the end of tags is not going to make or break a website. The important thing is coding semantically, for validity and compatibility, whichever doctype you use. Choose a strict doctype over transitional, and give your browser the best mark-up you can deliver.

Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas to all of my readers, young and old alike. May your bellies be filled with wonderful food and your stockings stuffed with presents.. or whatever it is turns you on at this time of year. Enjoy the festive season, and don’t drink too much brandy eggnog — leave some for me at least :9

I’ll try and post again before the year is out but I can’t guarantee anything, so in case I don’t — best wishes for a prosperous new year too :)

PS. Hex has taken to the Litter Kwitter brilliantly so far, and we’ve had no accidents! He’s on the red stage, and has had no problem climbing on to the toilet and doing his doodoos into the ‘tray’. We’ll be switching to the orange stage a week or so into the new year…