Verizon is now blogging at PoliBlog. The URL is a really nice one, very easy to remember. http://poliblog.verizon.com/PoliBlog/blogs/poliblog/default.aspx. What is it with using technology or a design that requires three directories to get to the real content? Don’t click on the blog author’s name. They are using some kind of javascript abomination to clear out […]
Archive of posts filed under the Technology category.
Bitacle Appears to Be Editing Posts
I believe that Bitacle is editing posts before they are “archived” onto their web site. It looks like the Bitacle scraper is not displaying anything on their web site that is in an RSS feed after a horizontal rule. Hmmm, why would they do that? Oh yeah, the copyright feed plug in adds a HR […]
Added Akismet Spam Count
I’ve just added the Akismet Spam Count plugin to my WordPress. It shows how many spam have been aught by Akismet. Very nice.
SnapBot Appears to be a Broken, Bad Spider
This appeared in one my web site’s server logs: 38.98.19.116 – – [10/Sep/2006:02:33:46 -0400] “GET /2005/08/28/postname/feed:http://www.example.com/comments/feed/ HTTP/1.0” 404 12824 “-” “Snapbot/1.0” Ugh! Tons of 404s as this badly behaved spider bot added the site’s feed URL for comments to the end of each URL. SnapBot is apparently related to Snap.com. I’ve emailed Snap.com asking for […]
Bitacle’s User-agent String
The Bitacle web thief was using this web agent identifier up through 25/Sep/2006:04:05:00 -0400. After that point, they identify their RSS crawler as “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-EN; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060614 Fedora/1.5.0.4-1.2.fc5 Firefox/1.5.0.4 pango-text” This is based on them using this IP address: 81.172.117.28.
The Value of e-SocietyRobot?
One of my web sites has been spidered by the e-SocietyRobot spider. It’s web site is at http://www.yama.info.waseda.ac.jp/~yamana/es/, slightly more legible using Babelfish. e-SocietyRobot is not a search engine. e-SocietyRobot hit 4,549 pages, no MP3 files luckily, but still used 51MB of traffic. But it is some unknown research project attempting to spider the web. […]
Re: Verizon needs to stop jerking me around
In Verizon needs to stop jerking me around Derek pegs why junk mail sucks. And a bonus, he pegs why Verizon sucks. Just yesterday my office’s T1 line went down. I call the helpful UUNet number to discover Verizon owns UUNET, or MCI, or whoever the heck it is. I have more important things to […]
Happy OneWebDay!
How has the web impacted your life? It sure has had an impact on mine. I’m a full time webmaster, a career that didn’t even exist 15 years ago. I have tens of thousands of people visit PlanetMike.com every month, something that surely wouldn’t have happened if I were printing a dead tree magazine of […]
Update on Verizon’s Supplier Surcharge
In Verizon BS: Supplier Surcharge I talked about Verizon’s increased prices of their DSL offerings. They’ve apparently decided to drop the new fee. Good. Prices should be going down, not up. The USA is lagging behind bandwidth availability when compared to the rest of the developed world. Dear Valued Verizon Online Customer, Effective immediately, Verizon […]
Verizon BS: Supplier Surcharge
Verizon has added a new fee to their DSL customers. They’ve removed an ancient tax, the FUSF (Federal Universal Service Fund) and added in an almost identical new fee, a supplier surcharge. Don’t most stores simply charge their expenses for their services in something known as a price? Verizon advertises the price of DSL in […]