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I’m sure the battle will be won, eventually…by me, ME, ME!!!! Never have had any doubt actually:

From the referrer stats I can see than the ‘bombing’ of spam related

traffic has almost deminished since 10:30h this morning…it was a

tough one, but am glad I at least feel on top of things!!

Following yesterdays post, the final results for the 4th of October:

AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

Almost 17% of my monthly granted traffic consumed in just ONE day!!!

So, that’s it!

I’m through with this…set up the IP-block with over 500 IP addresses blocked as of 12:00h pm today!

Let’s see what happens, eh?

Wellwell, I *know* I’m a popular guy, just wasn’t aware I’m *this* popular:

Last Update: 04 Oct 2005 – 06:17

…taken from my website statistics for the first days in October…

Unfortunately I must admit that most of the traffic is spam related…info also taken from the stats as well as the Pivot-Blacklist extension I’m running on this blog. Perhaps I should consider a complete IP-block on these spammers…

My biggest problem is not that this phenomenom is present (I actually

don’t see anything of it, except in the stats)…a much bigger issue

will be that it can cause a website shutdown if too much traffic is

generated!!!

I’ve got a 1Gb deal on a per month basis (cheapy, cheapy, I

know…don’t blame me for being dutch :))…hmm, go figure…if this

malicious traffis continues in this pace, this site will be down per

October 19th, 00:11h (am).

I’LL NOT LET THAT HAPPEN! 🙂 🙂

…for the ones who know, do you? 🙂

Apple, please…!!

For months now I am kind of stuck with the following;

Being an active podcast-subscriber/listener/enthusiast for over a year

now, I am becoming fed up with the fact that my iPod manages the

‘podcast’ artistnames in the same ‘Artists’ menu as the ‘music’

artists…so all in my Music Library.

Wouldn’t it be better if we have a new category in the menu-structure

on the iPod? For example ‘Podcast’ for al podcasts (compared to ‘Music’

for all music). All podcasts artists would then be seperated from the

music artists…and life would be so much better 🙂

He he he, isn’t it nice to complain about these kind of ‘huge’ problems, pfff…what a tough life we have!

My bio-clock is off, had to work through the night, finally found my

bed at 7.30am, after a fine 24h work. Completely lost track of day and

night 🙂

Feel jet-lagged, but without the jet…perhaps that going to bed early will safe my weekend!

Yeah! Got the email from Apple; my .Mac account disk space has been

increase from 250Mb to 1Gb! Not that I’m using it that much at the

moment, but still…I *love* these kind of emails, keep ‘m coming in! 🙂

Even better is the increased monthly data transfer limits (now 10 GB)…guess it will come in handy when I start podcasting!

Popdcasting? Ofcourse! Am ‘into it’ since day 1 and *will* do a podcast, expect to start still in 2005!!

Last bits left to do before the ‘launch’ are the web works at home (see

earlier posts)..you got to have the infrastructure ready before

starting, eh? 🙂

GOT IT! Installing MySQL 4.0.26 instead of 4.1.14 solved it…logical, eh? pffff!

Anyway…WordPress is up now so I can start working on the website design 🙂

Stumbled accross a tough nut in the MySQL config…I created the

database needed for WordPress and am able to access it. The WordPress

installation script however tells me that the database is down or

username/password are not correct…huh?!?

Nice one for the weekend, eh?

September 21…it’s fall as of today!

Looks to be a promising fall this year, we have 21 degrees in The

Netherlands today! It really seems to be nice outside, at least from

what I can see looking through the office windows 🙁 🙁

So, I started playing around with my proposed ‘server’ at home (yeah, it’ll be the Mac mini!)…sofar, things move ahead quite nice and fast I might add!

Apache is running, am now working on MySQL and PHP which I need to get

WordPress running (want to try this as my blogging tool, instead of

Pivot).

And that all within 5 minutes, almost…I *love* my Mac! 🙂

Heyhey, I hope to have some time this week to work on my website, well

actually on the .com part of it…currently the domain is a forward to

the .nl, but I’d like to experiment with setting it up on one of my

home pc’s (don’t want to call them servers :)).

If I mess up, y’all will probably notice by this side being down…nah, am sure I don’t mess up! (right?)

Just two pictures taken over the weekend from my backyard…isn’t nature a beautiful thing?

I stumbled upon the original quote for the one I posted last September 8:

“If we are facing the right direction, all we have to do is to keep on

walking”

It’s turned out to be an ancient Buddhist expression (not a Chinese saying)!

Not much time for new posts, life gets in the way these days…

Guess I’m still suffering from last Monday’s ‘Suppliers’-post!

Actually, I *am* still suffering, ’cause Murphy and the dominos/snowballs wanted to play along 🙁 🙁

Good thing is that things are improving as I turned the situation upside down and am on top of things! Yippieeaahhyyeee!

Some days you’re just pushed around in circles with no way out…today or actually this evening was one of those days,

obviously at work (I wouldn’t be so fed up otherwise :)).

So, have been waiting for over 2 hours to get ‘just’ some reply from a supplier in the

US cause the German branch office we’re normally dealing with was obviously closed…time difference

*can* be an advantage (as well as killing :)).

Finally got feedback and found out that they have pushed the problem back to Germany, to be picked up first thing tomorrow

morning…that’s to freakin’ late!! I wouldn’t have been in touch with

the US office if I could wait till tomorrow…AARRGGGHHH!!

YEARS ago I put a paper on my wall…all my colleagues in the office (including

the boss!) signed it…unfortunately the message still holds…SUPPLIERS

SUCK!!

Was driving in a traffic jam last week, enough time to look around and I saw them for the first time this year…birds flying in their typical

‘V’ shape back to the South!

Must be a sign…summer is coming to an end (huh? did it already start?? :)).

Amazing sight, eh?

tick-tock-tick-tock…rrrrrrrrrr…it’s WEEKENDDDDDDDD!!!

Tomorrow volleyball tournament (not that I can play, due to my knee

injury) and Sunday, well, uhhh, hmmm…now, just because I LOVE my

job…meeting at 9am! Oofff

Amazing…

I knew Apple would have a major announcement yesterday and thought it would be the iTunes phone (which was partly true, as they surprised us with the iPod Nano…looks like yet another a great device!).

It was actually last Tuesday, driving the car thinking about iTunes and when Apple would decide to upgrade from the 4.x versions to the 5.x version. Actually was expecting it to happen when a completely new type of functionality would be offered such as in 4.9 with the Podcasting service, shouldn’t that have been 5.0? :)).

Well, nothing of that…iTunes was upgraded from 4.9 to 5.0, changing nothing MAJOR, still a nice new design and ‘some’ additional functionalities (all for the best though)…

Isn’t it funny how these things work, one has a thought without any apparent reason…it then turns out to be something happening in the near future…:)

Being surrounded by so many people with positive attitudes, doing interesting stuff…it makes me feel GOOD!