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Excellent 80s videos!!!

Look out linkers to excellent 80s videos, you're getting suckered. Insurancemovies.com has gathered together a load of free youtube content - the idea is you link to it (and if you just copied the URL or used the default title that it has on del.icio...

Dodgy referers

Just written some code to plug into my refererCode scripts to stop this referer spam nonsense... it's sure to be a bit too strict at first, but what it's going to do is check each new referer I get in my logs, request that page to see if there really...

Adam Curry saviour of the universe!!!

Hmm, I know who wrote this story. I have stopped listening to all the podcasts I used to subscribe to. Even the Engadget show has lost it's appeal, now it's changed. Interesting to see Adam Curry and Dave Winer disagreeing in that piece, I thought th...

Whole lot of referer spam

Every time someone tries a fake referer spam on this site, I have code that detects it, and then blocks that IP address from requesting any more pages here... just noticed, the list's getting long now - do you see yourself here? There seems to be qui...

Manic Tuesday

Had a long weekend in Folkestone, but I have returned to chaos... www.popex.com, www.record-producers.com, www.channelfly.com and other work sites all down... not big issues to fix, but annoying... one of them the power lead had fallen out the back....

Rated 8.41/10 on Folkestone Gerald

.htaccess

Just found some cheeky chappy referer spamming going on, by someone else, not me, so it's time to add some things to the access control for this site... just found this tip for your .htaccess file, on thinkhost... cheers chaps!<LIMIT GET HEAD POST...

Office Cleaning Day

Rushing through my PopEx admin this morning (charts to add, etc) then this afternoon is the great office clean, bit odd, then a big company meeting, even odder.Have noticed lots of wacky referers, that aren't actually referers at all, but are showing...