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For the past few months I have been planning on setting up a new business. Now this takes some planning as you might imagine and having being self employed before for four years before, it takes an additional leap of faith to decide whether I actually want to execute my business plan. Being self employed is [...]

Some of you may be aware of the setup that I have here at home that dishes this blog and several other sites out onto the world wild web. I have probably an overly complicated setup in which I have no less than 3 backend servers with a Squid Proxy server acting as the front [...]

I got a spam a short while ago that managed to get through my filters. As I was about to delete it I noticed the content. Have a look at the screenshot. The spammers want me to actually manually type their address into my browser and helpfully provide instructions on how to get to their [...]

Maybe someone might be able to enlighten me? I’ve been observing some really, really strange behaviour while looking through my log files. Two posts that I put up a few months ago are getting a lot of traffic. 896 hits alone on one and 154 on the other. in the past three days. Now that [...]

I have an apology to make. Actually I have two. To any person living in China or India, thank you for trying to leave a comment on my site. Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate the time and effort that you went through to compose your less than useless comment. Sadly though, it was just [...]

I haven’t recieved a 419 in a while. Either by post or e-mail but one arrived in my inbox early this morning. Spamassassain had flagged it as spam and I was about to delete it but I noticed that it claimed to be an Irish lottery. The Irish Lottery P O Box 1010 11 G [...]

Obsessing as I do over my log files I noticed a crawler indexing every page on my blog. Nothing unusual there except it was a crawler I had never seen before and was rapidly going through my site. In their useragent string was a URL so off I went there to find out some more. [...]

I got another 419 in the post last week. Like the previous ones it is a lottery scam. But unlike the others, this one came from Amsterdam and not Malaga. This one also looks very professional with proper professional headed paper that certainly wasn’t created by a bunch of Nigerians with a PC, a HP [...]