I’m sort of disappointed I didn’t see this at JOAB:

But I’ll give the auction a plug anyway.

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 🙂

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I’ve been trying to track down a site I use to use for tracking search engine results. It did things like track (with history) search engine placements based on keywords and what not for each site, and you could put between 3-6 sites (depending on the tool) for each search. It had little graphs as well. It was free and I’m sure it had marketing in the URL, but I can’t remember. I’m sure I wrote about it at The Blog Herald but I can’t find it there, and it disappeared from my bookmarks a computer ago.

Any one have any ideas?

thanks

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.

As the song goes, the karmas going to get you. I was hassling Jeremy the other day when he told me that he’d picked up a computer virus….mainly because he claimed he got it using Firefox. So what happens 2 days later? I was using IE for some testing and forgot I was using it. Before I knew it, there are more viruses on my computer then germs on the street of a third world slum. I’ve tried everything to get rid of this stuff, and I’ve got it down to one: something called Spyware Quake, which I stupidly (well in retrospect) managed to install after clicking on an alert box telling my I had spyware on my computer. See, the computer is only 3 months old, and I don’t use a lot of the HP/ Compaq installed software that came preinstalled on it. I presumed it was some sort of HP/ Compaq software message, and it didn’t look like a popup at all, it actually looked like a proper system generated message…..yeh, I should know better.