Category: General

Lots of stories all over the web about a big Denial of Service attack aimed at Six Apart.

CNet quoting Anil Dash:
“Any large service tends to have a pretty constant level of attacks, but this was on a scale that I don’t think anybody could have anticipated,” Dash said. “I think it is of a scale that would have impacted any large site on the Web”.

We’ve had one of these before, on a much smaller scale out of China. It’s never, ever nice. My thoughts with the SixApart team at this time.

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Jason Calacanis and Nick Denton together in New York 3 May 2006. Now it’s public knowledge these two have had a love/ hate relationship for a long time. So what’s going on here? Is AOL wanting to acquire Gawker Media as well (imagine that, they’d own over 60% of the blog network media space if they did). Is it a hatchet burying exercise? Very, very interesting 🙂

(via Blogebrity)

OK, I don’t need food but I know when I’ve reached my limit with new projects and old ones and its time to part ways with the old Weblog Empire site. I totally loved the idea of a blog link exchange but I just don’t have the time to run it or promote it at the moment, and I could always do with a little extra money to spend on Scriptlance for my next big idea 🙂

I’ve also got CouponWeblog up for sale as well. It was based on an old MT Weblog I ran years ago that listed coupons. I sold the original site in 2004 for a reasonable sum, and I thought I might give it another go last year with this blog. Again, time was limited, b5media comes first, so I’m selling this as well

If you are interested they are both listed on Sitepoint here.

Update Both sites sold within 1.5 hours. WOW. Maybe I shoud have asked more 🙂

The Inquirer gets it totally right. Even if you vote Republican, you’d have to start seriously considering the fact that something is extremely wrong with the current US Administration with laws such as these.

Anyone experiencing semi-regular crashes of the latest release of Firefox? It updated itself last week and ever since it’s crashed for me maybe 3-4 times a day….damn annoying, but it’s still safer than using IE 🙂

Lest We Forget.

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold
These laid the world away; poured out the red
Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene,
That men call age; and those who would have been,
Their sons, they gave, their immortality.

Blow, bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth,
Holiness, lacked so long, and Love, and Pain.
Honour has come back, as a king, to earth,
And paid his subjects with a royal wage;
And Nobleness walks in our ways again;
And we have come into our heritage.

III. The Dead, Rupert Brooke (1887 -1915).

After digging through Google, reading forums advocating all sorts of bizarre and long winded ideas, there is only one way I could remove Spyware Quake: by downloading Ewido anti-malware, software from the same people who write AVG. Effect a full scan then a memory scan as chances are there will be multiple related bugs with Spyware Quake as well. Its a 14 day free trial then you pay after that, but I’m so impressed with it that I’m seriously tossing up paying the $30 US to continue to use it, particularly as it runs all the time like Virus Protection does.

Only thing I don’t like about it: it keeps telling me my Alexa Toolbar install is malware. Not sure why, but its a little annoying.

Inspired by Darren, and also because I forgot to do it earlier, I’ve turned on the full feed here at duncanriley.com. It’s going to hurt what little traffic reads my personal rants, but to be honest….I don’t really care. As they say in the for love or money stakes, I’m blogging here because I want to (love) and I’m not really all that concerned in terms of traffic and dollars from this site. What I do have to do now is pull out the proforma DMCA notice because I’d guess it will take no more than a few days to start getting all the content ripped now 🙂

I had the opportunity of speak to a local Rotary Club last night about blogging, and interesting experiment in itself given I had no laptop or audiovisual support so it was a matter of trying to explain the whole blogging thing to people who didn’t know anything about it…without pictures.

Afterwards I was talking to some people: I’d apparently made some people interested in blogging. One person asked me the best place to start a blog for his business at low cost. I talked roughly about free blogging services (such as WordPress.com, Blogger) but after recognising that he’d need a fair bit of support, I recommended TypePad as his best option…..god dammit! Anil would be proud. I even went onto explain how by paying the little bit of money to Mena and friends meant that he’d get a lot of support which would be useful should he get stuck………ok, someone buy me a bullet :-). Who knows, I might even get back on the SixApart Christmas Card list yet!

SEJ has more here yesterday. Looking like Matt and the team are still having problems:

Once More

We had a pretty bad hardware failure yesterday, and though it took longer than we liked everything was restored and has been running the past 6 hours or so just dandy.

We did some proactive maintainence whil the site was down, but we need to take things down one last time and do one more bit. Everything should be done by roughly 1:30 AM PST.

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