Poor Kelly has been having some technical problems with her MovableType installation and now has a blank page on the site. The weird thing is that at various stages during the weekend the site has even come back with domain not found!
UpdateKelly’s site is back online now although with a plain design at the moment.
Month: August 2003
It will be a lot easier to be a chef from today as Teso’s are selling a tear-free onion from today. Not genetically modified it should have half the tear-inducing ingredients! Sounds great – just hope it tastes good. I actually thought I wouldn’t need something like this after watching Gos on Big Brothers Little Brother when he demonstrated how to chop an onion, because the next time I chopped an onion I did it the same way and had no problems with the stinging sensation – although not so on Friday night when my eyes were really sore.
Just got back from watching Terminator 3 – the loudest film I’ve seen ever. The noise of the “car” chase was amazing and you could feel the vibrations in the seat. A very good film and worth watching although there are several plot points that were very dodgy and we spotted at least one continuity problem concerning cars and a restaurant – I won’t go into any more detail so it doesn’t ruin it for the people who haven’t seen it yet. Looking at the queue when we came out of the cinema I am so glad that we didn’t go to see the 8pm showing as it was packed!
Update I’ve added the blooper to Movie Bloopers
From Netcrafts survey, the first Web Server Survey ran in August 1995 and found 18,957 sites. NCSA and CERN were the leading web servers of the day, in front of Netscape which had recently IPO’d, and the Apache project which started a few months earlier in March 1995. Microsoft-IIS, HTTP/1.1 hosting and domain name registrars were not then on the horizon.
In the August 2003 survey we received responses from 42,807,275 sites.
(My first domain appeared in March 1999) although I was using geocities a longtime before that.
Anyone (Neil?) know if it is possible to search the comments in MT?
Extended entry shows the bandwidth stats for yesterday
Having access to a customised 404 page means I’ve been able to set up notification when someone goes to a missing page on my site and I can then correct the links. Its a practise thats worked well and I now get very few error messages coming in. However I am getting several links for various incarnations of formmail.cgi, formmail.php, and formmail.pl all in different locations such as /cgi-bin, / etc. All of them have had the referral page forged so it looks like its my site that has led them to this page (presumably because thats one of the first restrictions someone will use to lock down their mailing routine). I now have to do some more php work with those regex expressions learnt yesterday to not email me if someone requests a formmail page of whatever description. Ideally I’d want to put them in my .htaccess file programatically too so they wouldnt be able to get any more pages (or make them refer to a tarpit of some kind)
From the Stella Awards is a newspaper story of the police who are suing the makers of Tazer as the cop was too stupid to tell the difference between a tazer and a gun and shot someone she was meant to be tazering. The cops are suing Tazer as they didn’t train the cops well enough to tell the difference!
The nutter made it – flying over the english channel without an engine – although he did use one to get started. Pictures, video and commentary are available from the BBC news website