Girl Geekette

   

SlurpConfirm404

Another of my daily bad habits (yes, amonsgt many) is the continious monitering of my logs. At any given time I am watching the logs of my websites. Beleive it or not, sometimes this pays off! And other times, it brings more questions to mind which.. yes, I am going to search, read and learn until my questions are satisfied.

This time, I happen to be watching my logs and noticed that Yahoo’s Slurp engine was searching for pages that did not exist on my site. I had to stop and think about it for a minute, but I realized that the pages it was searching for were not only ones that did not exist, but they never had existed!

Now, through the various versions of my sites, of course pages have moved. And when this happens, search engines still might be looking for the old and outdated ones. But in this case, /SlurpConfirm404/Schultz/HSchorus.htm (see the image above) brought a big HUH?? to my lips.

No Spam

As a Wordpress lover, I also fight my share of Spam. When I was able to drop my daily comment spam rate from over 400 comment spam a day to less than 30 a day, I was ecstatic!

Although Akismet does its job by seperating the Spam Comments from the Non Spam comments, I still had to go through and make sure that the ones caught truely are spam.

Using Akismet and a few other great tools, not only am I able to cut tons of comment spam out, I am also helping out to catch spammers.

No, I am not trying to sell you anything, I just want to pass on how I was able to do this.

Since late 2005, I have been a member of Project Honeypot. It is a great way to set up a honeypot to attract spammers. The best part is, all of the spammers caught there are documented.

Move Clocks Back and Hour

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Don’t forget to set your clock back an hour! End Daylight savings time. (US)

Clock image courtesy of VistaIcons.com

Halloween Ghost and Pumpkin

Hope everyone has a happy and safe Halloween!

oh, and on a side note…

Last night I went into the costume shop looking for a subnet mask… and then they kicked me out