I guess this was inevitable. Good cause, and all that yadda. (via rex)
June, 2007
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Jun 07
The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century › A Craigslist Wedding
When you put out an invitation to your wedding on Craiglist you never know what might happen.. Nice story.
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Jun 07
links for 2007-06-09
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you don’t need a fancy-pants icecream maker
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new blog and book from Mark Frauenfelder
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Jun 07
Subtraction: Managing Mail Imperfectly
Subtraction: Managing Mail Imperfectly ; A good take on email management for those overloaded with email. I’ve been finding it useful to keep the in-box as a place for items which need to be actionable – (reply, file, delegate) – in my own mutated GTD system. I have to admit that just setting up smart folders is a smart way to avoid the filing process overhead, but what about the CPU involved with thinking you may have missed something? there may be a happy medium in there somewhere.
I’m pretty ruthless with deleting emails. Keep and file only what is absolutely needed. I have 184 emails in my trash folder from yesterday alone.
Active email discussion? Delete all but the most recent.
Anyone out there with similar mail management issues? How are you solving them?
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Jun 07
is microsoft using referer spam?
Well, this is interesting.
Being the good web nerd, blog stats fanatic that I am, I check in a couple times a day to the different web analytics programs I have set up for the site. i’ve been toying with slimstat, google analytics, and the WordPress.com stats plugin. Each has its own benefits, but that isn;t what this post is about.
I saw a curious referer from a search for “infiniti” from live.com
But i knew right away… I don’t write about cars on my blog.
Even more interesting is that the request came from an ip address @ Microsoft.
Now, it would really be silly if Microsoft thought it was a good idea to referer spam blogs like mine aspiring to make it to the c-list blogger tier in order to drive traffic to search.live.com, wouldn’t it? I wonder if text ads for “infiniti” cost much these days?
I can’t really explain how the referer happened, since the term “infiniti” hasn’t been on the site until now.
Here is a snip from the logfile:
131.107.0.96 – - [06/Jun/2007:21:07:12 -0700] “GET /wp-content/themes/sandbox/skins/bluno.css HTTP/1.1″ 200 2929 “http://www.bluno.org/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; Win64; x64; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)”
131.107.0.96 – - [06/Jun/2007:21:07:12 -0700] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 37905 “http://search.live.com/result.aspx?q=infiniti&mrt=en-us&FORM=LVSP” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; Win64; x64; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)”
131.107.0.96 – - [06/Jun/2007:21:07:12 -0700] “GET /wp-content/plugins/audio-player/audio-player.js HTTP/1.1″ 200 791 “http://www.bluno.org/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; Win64; x64; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)”
131.107.0.96 – - [06/Jun/2007:21:07:12 -0700] “GET /wp-content/themes/sandbox/stylebluno.css HTTP/1.1″ 200 5313 “http://www.bluno.org/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; Win64; x64; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)”
131.107.0.96 – - [06/Jun/2007:21:07:13 -0700] “GET /wp-content/plugins/falbum/falbum.css.php HTTP/1.1″ 200 15426 “http://www.bluno.org/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; Win64; x64; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)”
131.107.0.96 – - [06/Jun/2007:21:07:13 -0700] “GET /wp-content/plugins/google-analyticator/ga_external-links.js HTTP/1.1″ 200 2281 “http://www.bluno.org/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; Win64; x64; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)”
I mean, that would be a really dumb move on Microsoft’s part, right?
Update: hmm… a few minutes more research turns up this at webmaster world:
What happens is:
- they build an index.
- it has errors in it.
- they run a util on high value kws that flags possible problems for a hand check.
- they do the hand check and delete obvious mistakes.
I guess I can buy that, but it would be sad that their search index could be so wildly error prone.. I sure hope word doesn’t leak out about it! 
