Imagine Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass playing Christmas Carols. They might sound like this.
Try especially God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and tell me it doesn’t put you in mind of Taste of Honey.
Imagine Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass playing Christmas Carols. They might sound like this.
Try especially God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and tell me it doesn’t put you in mind of Taste of Honey.
I must admit to a certain fascination with low-tech housing solutions, so it was interesting to read this article on Boing Boing and the associated links. Architects Nader Khalili and Iliona Outram won the Aga Khan award for their method of using sandbags and barbwire to construct buildings based upon circular courses which are corbelled together to make domes.
Interesting stuff.
While exploring the depth of my ridiculous referer spam issue, I ran the following simple
query:
mysql> select count(*) as cnt , baseDomain from referer_visitlog where to_days(now()) - to_days(visitTime) = 0 group by baseDomain order by cnt desc limit 10 ; +-----+--------------------------+ | cnt | baseDomain | +-----+--------------------------+ | 682 | chikaliresortmalawi.com | | 682 | champvilleclub.com | | 682 | ceyloncurry.com | | 682 | cbmwyo.org | | 289 | brittandersondesigns.com | | 243 | clevelandfyi.com | | 50 | google.com | | 16 | google.co.uk | | 8 | xopy.com | | 6 | search.yahoo.com | +-----+--------------------------+ 10 rows in set (1.16 sec)
It’s kind of depressing to find just how many people work that hard to try to spam my silly little site.
Addendum: It seems that virtually all my referer spam comes from four distinct IP addresses. They are now in my blacklist. We shall see how long this holds.
In the last couple of days, I’ve been targetted by referer spam bots. These dorks access pages on a weblog repeatedly in an attempt to get their referer tag listed on your home page. I’ve been trying to figure out how to combat this behavior, and can see two different ways of dealing with it:
The second seems easy, but I must admit: the query to find such lists seems difficult to write. I’ll continue to think it over, but does anyone have any suggestions?
Slashdot has some followup on the weekend’s BitTorrent shutdowns. Apparently there were some arrests over the weekend, and many threats of arrest. Haven’t had time to go over them in any detail (off to Christmas shop) but check ’em out.