Hur­ray, the Apache log files are back. They came back on after this morn­ings log rotate. I noticed that my onpage counter had gone up by more than 1250, in the 12 hours since I was last at my home PC. If that’s an indic­a­tion of the activ­ity I’ve had over the last couple of days, then I may have missed some peaks.
I won’t see the res­ults of my two day ‘gap’ until the early hours local time. I’m not look­ing for­ward to it.

Time to re-investigate installing some other stat track­ing soft­ware. I’ve installed PowerPhlog­ger loc­ally, but not played much with it.

Appar­ently if you have a web site, “15% of your vis­it­ors are thieves”, or so say Anti-Leech.

Wel­come to Anti-Leech.com! Inter­net today has big prob­lems. An aver­age of 15% of your vis­it­ors use advert­ising block­ing tools when vis­it­ing your sites and the major part of all web­mas­ters will try to copy the con­tent you pub­lish. There­fore we have engin­eered sev­eral ways to pro­tect your website.

Appar­ently these fools believe it is theft to use pop-up block­ing or ban­ner block­ing soft­ware! Just like it is theft to change TV chan­nels when the adverts come on. It must also be theft to not read every word of every advert in the news­pa­pers you buy! Does this mean that all blind people who browse the web are thieves because they can’t see the adverts?

A major part of all web­mas­ters will try to copy your content

Surely that includes the people they are selling to? So we have only 15% of vis­it­ors are thieves but a major part, lets say 51%, of all web­mas­ters are thieves!

These people also sell “Anti-HTML” which con­sists of a pathetic right-click javas­cript popup and out­put­ting your html con­tent in frag­ments with javas­cript document.write()‘s.

Their “Anti-Theft” product will also “Limit Access to Cer­tain Coun­tries” wow! Just what I want: a reduced mar­ket place!
They also do an “Anti-Spam” product which is “Com­pletely free from ads”. That’s a selling point which seems com­pletely at odds with the rest of their products!

I’ll fin­ish with a final quote:

All actions are also logged, so you can catch every­one try­ing to break through the defense.

Avoid at all costs!

Link from slash­dot

Update: For those look­ing for a proxy. I have set up an exper­i­mental proxy here

There is a very inter­est­ing art­icle over at The Globe And Mail entitled Is there a ‘Geek’ Syn­drome?. A well researched piece on the high incid­ence of high-functioning aut­ism or Asperger’s Syn­drome in Sil­icon Val­ley.
Hmmm, some of the indic­at­ors feel remark­ably close to home…

Link from Geek Ram­blings