Blog spam

Blogs 2004-08-30

A couple of hours ago my blog was spammed with lots of comments. They all got caught, so no worries, but what surprised me was that although they were clearly spamming for the same host, they came almost all from differen IP-adresses, radically different IP-adresses: 12.22.85.3
193.145.88.17, 193.165.223.2, 200.35.83.27
200.56.233.5, 202.125.129.138, 203.150.28.215, 203.169.115.134, 203.246.165.35, 206.163.199.1, 210.3.7.150, 210.4.143.254, 210.5.71.243, 212.47.27.186, 213.253.212.101, 61.19.243.11, 63.81.122.87, 64.19.80.100, 64.3.231.3, 65.112.88.98, 66.178.7.6, 66.192.31.98, 67.136.50.93, 80.53.138.10, 80.55.131.150, 80.58.20.235, 80.58.46.235, 80.84.154.70, 81.118.4.4.
Someone is having a bit more fun with distributed computing than they should.


Nicer Titles

Blogs 2004-08-29

Having seen Nicer Titles demonstrated at Binary Bonsai, I decided to incorporate it into my page. Don’t seem to work too well with Safari, though.


Sign Blog

Blogs 2004-08-28

Rob Wilks is blogging in sign language


Hi. I came across del.icio.us in an Infoworld article, and figured: What if we make an RFC for categories. If we had a set of standardized categories people could choose to use, we could have blog indexes where we could subscribe on a category in a language as an rss feed and receive only interesting topics on that. An example of a category could be Music/Early Music/Renaissance, as opposed to Art/Renaissance/Vermeer. I’d love to receive blogging on Vermeer and Renaissance music without having to hunt these blogs down and add them to my RSS feed. :)


Videoblogs

Blogs 2004-08-26

In Marc’s Voice today, Marc shows this video of Momentshowing. I don’t know about the guy who made this, but this kind of thing freaks me out. He’s assuming that just because a person is outside, he has the right to videotape him and show him around to everyone. Assuming, of course, that the story is true and not just produced. This is why people are afraid of cellphones with videocameras and such, that people will just allow themselves to not only watch people and stalk people, but do it with the world as their audience. What do you think about this?