Friday, November 21, 2003

Blogging in my sleep

by Suw on November 21, 2003

I had a dream last night that I had been asked to compile a list of my ten favourite things to do. At number one was “Read Gary Turner's weblog“.

I really, really need to get out more.

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Top referrers list gone

by Suw on November 21, 2003

Spam. It's all bloody spam these days.

I'd been wondering why I had a number of strange links in my referrers log – links that go to sites that don't apparently refer to me at all. The sites that spider I know about, but some of these sites appeared to be blogs yet didn't link to me at all. One of them was a porn site.

Via Long Story, Short Pier, comes the information that these blogs are relying on curious bloggers clicking on the link in their logs, and on getting enough referrals to make it into the published referrers list thus getting yet more clicks from curious readers, in order to improve their Google ranking. It's a sort of referrers log spam. There's a lot more information on this thread at The Protagonist Community.

It's a shame, really, that blogs have suddenly become the target of spammers. I had my first comment spam the other day. Thankfully I'm not suffering in the same way that some MT users are, but it's only a matter of time before the spammers find a way to automatic comment spamming for Blog City as they have done for other blog hosts. At that point, if the good people at Blog City can't deal with it, comments may have to go, which would be a shame.

Why is it that whenever something fun and interesting comes along, someone somewhere finds a way to ruin it?

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The best error page in the history of 404s

by Suw on November 21, 2003

This (currently at least, unless someone fixes the link) is just the best error page ever. Puts my pathetic attempt to shame.

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nedstat

by Suw on November 21, 2003





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Galavanting

by Suw on November 21, 2003

Off to Kate's for the weekend. May or may not blog. Ta ra!

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