Mike Little’s Journalized

I’ve just received a copy of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [Extended Version] - Four Disc Collector’s Box Set! It was gift from a very good friend, Steve P, who I recommended for a short term contract at my office. I can’t wait to watch it! Too late tonight, maybe tomorrow.

Thanks Steve!

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.

I’ve just spent a couple of hours drawing up a floor plan for the school Christmas Fare in Smartdraw.
Very satisfying - I’m sad like that Strangely, we won’t actually be going to the fare. We have to travel to Anthony’s wedding reception that day. It will be the first one we have missed since Jamie started school.
Jan will still be helping organise it right up until Friday.

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