For those friends still working phone support, something to get you through the day.

If you like the logo for Crumpet’s Freakpods site, um… you can thank me, cos Crumpet stole it from a T-shirt I made. I’m still chasing my royalties.

*continues plugging Freakpods*

Ah, the joys of running your own webserver.

I had almost 700,000 hits from one IP back on the 20th (to put it in perspective, this site normally gets about 10-15k hits per month). I won’t post the URL it was trying to get (I don’t want to raise their Google PageRank), but Apache was kept pretty busy delivering 403 errors. Check out some of the entertaining UserAgents the bot pretended to be:

66.254.125.98 – - [20/Mar/2006:08:38:06 +1100] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 403 423 “http://spammer/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.0; Win95)” “-”
66.254.125.98 – - [20/Mar/2006:08:38:08 +1100] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 403 423 “http://spammer/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Symbian OS/1.1.0)” “-”
66.254.125.98 – - [20/Mar/2006:08:38:09 +1100] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 403 423 “http://spammer/” “Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; NetPositive/2.2.1; BeOS)” “-”
66.254.125.98 – - [20/Mar/2006:08:38:09 +1100] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 403 423 “http://spammer/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Voyager; AmigaOS)” “-”
66.254.125.98 – - [20/Mar/2006:08:38:15 +1100] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 403 423 “http://spammer/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; X 10.0; Commodore 64)” “-”

Yep, if a machine (no matter how ancient) ever had a web browser, it’s on this list. Grudging respect for being oldschool, but please… can you mess with somebody else’s server next time?

Crumpet is making an Extreme Knitting podcast, and she’s rocking out! I’m AFRAID!!!

I bought a present for Crumpet today and hid it somewhere in the house. I wonder how long it will be until she finds it…

*waits for Crumpet to read this post and start running about*

Every so often something so disturbing occurs that the only way to get on with your life is to document it. One of those things happened to me on Friday.

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It’s been ages since I bought new music. I’m in the car so often that I gotta start buying albums again. I just made an order at JB Hifi’s online site… don’t tell Crumpet.

Note to self – driving from Dandenong to Preston in the dark, singing at the top of your voice to the Ramones and the Pixies will warm the bejesus out of your voice. Sounds like I’m getting the strength back into my vocal chords from all the singing I’ve been doing while driving in the last month!

And when I get home, I find that Sound on Sound has a feature on the recording of Big Star’s ‘September Gurls’ – bweeeeeeeeee!

Yeah, probably no surprise to anybody who knows me.

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Click the horsies!