Archive for January, 2005
When a frog is not a frog
This is not a frog. Henceforth this creature shall be known as a “ling-a-ning-a-ning.” So it has been decreed by the fair Princess Julia.
Honestly we have no idea why, of all the syllables and consonants available and the complex and endless ways they can be thrown together Julia has fastened upon that particular collection of [...]
When babies kill
Julia’s bedtimes have taken on an almost ethereal tone. It’s something that we’ve begun really looking forward to which sounds odd and even overtly rude (“I can’t wait until that accursed child goes to sleep!”) but it isn’t. As she’s grown and developed her personality she’s acquired some utterly endearing practices that kill us. Here’s [...]
Paige Davis fired
The Puritans at TLC fired Trading Spaces hostess Paige Davis for “stripping“. That’s not the reason they cite, but we know.
Yuschenko blogging!
Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has a blog.
Yes, I’m shipping cocaine between the pages
I mentioned recently that I’m selling some books on Half.com. Just as an FYI, I’ve already sold 3 books (all paperback, one “good” condition and two “acceptable”) and netted roughly $9. That compares with the $26 I received from the miserly used bookstore for around 20 cherry-picked (read: excellent condition) books including five hardcovers. I’ll [...]
Another adjustment to the referrer spam killing
So far so good on the referrer spam killer. Since I implemented it yesterday it’s killed 33 spam links that would have appeared in my referrer logs. That’s precisely what I ask of it, so that’s well and good.
Unfortunately I’ve also noticed some “false positives” that necessitate another adjustment to the mechanism. The last time [...]
Of toilet paper and space probes
How did it come to this? We in the United States are, arguably, the most technologically advanced society in the world. In this age of gigahertz processors and Martian rovers, when people can “stay connected” almost 24 hours a day in any terrain or environment, with so many advances in our standard of living and [...]
Killing Referral Spam
UPDATE: See an update to the rules here.
It all started with Paris Hilton. Though, really, what doesn’t?
Referral spam is silly to me. For those unaware, “referrer/referral spam” refers to the practice of sending a request for a web page — like my weblog here at http://www.coldforged.org — and changing the request headers such that the [...]
