Daley Ponderings

Visited States

Somehow I missed it when Janet posted her visited states post. I think I have this right, though I don't remember all of these states, so maybe it doesn't count if I just know that I drove through them but can't remember anything about them. (my visited country map wouldn't be that exciting, so I won't bother putting that up -- Mexico, Canada and the US) (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on March 23, 2006, 2:43 pm | Read 2502 times | Comments (4)
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Nerdy?

I am nerdier than 85% of all people. Are you nerdier? Click here to find out!

Posted by Jon Daley on March 7, 2006, 9:04 am | Read 3508 times | Comments (14)
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Do Not Call List

Guess how hard it is to get phone numbers off of the federal do not call list? You just have to ask, and they will give it to you for no charge (up to five area codes). No verification of the registration information is required, so feel free to sign up as many times as you like with random information each time. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on March 1, 2006, 12:08 pm | Read 17948 times | Comments (5)
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Firefox Hacks

Well, I followed the directions on one of those "speed up firefox" pages, and found a setting that broke stuff, at least minimally, and it was hard to diagnose. The symptom was a red line through the padlock icon when viewing an ssl page that I wrote in PHP. If I reloaded the page, it would go back to normal.

I am also getting the 403 error from Google, that it says I have a virus. I think the problem is that I was searching too fast - I guess I need to slow down my reading. It appears to block you for some amount of time, and then let you back in. Or perhaps certain queries trigger it. It appears to happen more often with Firefox than with other browsers. I use a couple of proxy servers, and I think google doesn't like those either. But, I have used them for years, and today is the first time google complained, so I am not sure what is going on. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on December 13, 2005, 11:11 am | Read 2845 times | Comments (2)
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Name Change

The name of the software that runs this blog used to be called pLog, but Amazon.com registered this name in the US. Even though the project is hardly a US run project, I think most developers are in Europe, and a bunch in China and Taiwan, we decided to change the name, rather than argue with them.
As one friend said, "Since amazon is bigger than you, doesn't that cancel out any trademark issues?" That was in response to me wondering why our use of pLog 2 years before Amazon started using it wouldn't count as prior art or something. Though later we discovered that Amazon trademarked the term in 2003, but just hasn't gotten around to using it yet. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on November 9, 2005, 6:48 am | Read 2634 times | Comments (1)
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Spam Thoughts

Mark Minasi, a guy who writes a Windows newsletter about various IT tricks and other things related to using a Windows system.
This month, the majority of his newsletter was about spam, and I think he missed a couple points, so I wrote to him, and it ended up pretty long, so I figured I might as well post it here as well. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on November 2, 2005, 8:39 am | Read 2599 times | Comments (0)
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Internet

Since it appears that Speakeasy is not going to be able to figure out how to reconnect our internet, at least for a while, I got internet working simultaneously on our desktop and our laptop this morning. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on October 21, 2005, 8:30 am | Read 3533 times | Comments (5)
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New Spammer Record

I happened to check my logs this evening and discovered that a spammer had tried to send one of my clients a few emails over the weekend. Only 100,000 or so. He was being blocked via an RBL, but that still takes up resources, so I manually blocked his IP address, as well as ran a ping -f -s 65507 on him for a while, and reported him to his ISP. The mail stopped about 5 minutes later, so I don't know what made the difference, it doesn't seem like his ISP could have reacted that fast, particularly on a Saturday evening.

Posted by Jon Daley on August 27, 2005, 6:34 pm | Read 2347 times | Comments (2)
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Mail Statistics

It is a new month, and therefore, a new point on my email graph. A couple interesting things this month: one, you can tell I went on vacation, and probably also that I knew Heather was gone the week before, so I wasn't emailing her as much either. Two, spam has now hit the 30% mark (note: the "received mail" does not include spam). Three, the size of email is getting bigger. Even though I received less email this month than the last couple months, the mailbox hit 100 megs for the month.

Posted by Jon Daley on August 3, 2005, 10:24 am | Read 5259 times | Comments (4)
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Visited States

Nerdy?

Sponsored Birth

Do Not Call List

Firefox Hacks

Name Change

Spam Thoughts

Internet

New Spammer Record

Mail Statistics

Internet Searching

Incredibles

Music Meme

20 Questions?

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