Archive for March, 2007
MSRBOT at 209.249.11.4
Would someone at Microsoft please explain why something from IP 209.249.11.4 is crawling this site extensively and using up huge quantities of bandwidth while passing a clearly faked “blogger.com” referrer field in the headers? This is behavior I usually associate with malicious spam and scraper bots, and indeed in the past I have had to [...]
No Cubes?
Amy got me this Arlington pen in the course of her work for the county. It’s a nice pen, with a wavy pocket clip and a rubber grip, and the name of the county and state on it, but we were wondering about that weird logo. What does it mean? No cubes? No squares? No [...]
links for 2007-03-21
Desktop Tower Defense. Defend your desk from little round annoying things by buying missile turrets and placing them in strategic positions. (tags: fun flash games) Shorpy | The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog. Photos from the turn of the last century. (tags: history photos) SpaceX private rocket Falcon1 launches but fails to reach orbit. (tags: space spacex [...]
LOST 3.10-3.12: Dharma Van, Football, Star Wars
Spoilers ahead. Close your eyes! Previously on LOST, Hurley found a Vee Dub in the woods, got it running with help from Charlie, Sawyer, and Jin, then drove it off frame with a swell of music. The next episode, he’s playing table tennis with Sawyer and doesn’t even mention the van. What happened to it? [...]
Afternoon Walk
It was nice enough out for a walk down to SW DC this afternoon, and I took these snaps as I went along. (I decided to let them gather in my Flickr photostream rather than post them to here one by one, just to keep from flooding my weblog with single mobile updates.) Upper left: [...]
links for 2007-03-20
Metroblogging DC: The Circus Comes to Town. In which I post fuzzy video of the Circus Pachyderm Parade as it passed my apartment. (tags: dc circus animals elephants metblogs) Potter star refuses to sign up for final films. Emma Watson doesn’t want to play Hermione Granger anymore? (tags: harrypotter film showbiz) Nowheresville, USA: Wincing at [...]
Metro.jpg
Nearly empty Metro train, Red Line at rush hour going against the flow above Dupont Circle. On my way back from Petco at Cleveland Park for cat supplies. (Metro.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
Hopster.jpg
The bunny’s shirt says ‘Happy Hopster,’ and if you press its on/off paw it jumps around with springy noises while singing a song. (Hopster.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
A Request to Flickr
Hey, Flickr! I went and merged my Flickr login with my Yahoo account. It was seamless and hitch-free, even after closing my browser and reopening it to make sure the Flickr cookie was persistent between sessions. There. I’m happy. Okay? Are you happy? Good. I did it for you. Now you have to do something [...]
FBCDC+205
Sunday was the 205th Anniversary of my church, FBCDC. To spruce up the website’s front page last week, I asked Mary, the current acting church secretary, if she could spare a few historic church photos from the archives, and she sent me these lovely pictures, some dating back to the first days of the church [...]