Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘WWW’ Category

Facebook Fibbing

So I got an email from Facebook today.  It went to an account I set up while testing a project. My imaginary account has only one friend: my real account. Anyway my lonely, sad, friendless, imaginary account gets an email from Facebook “Mark Caldwell are following Pages on Facebook”.  I’ve seen these messages to my […]

Comments Spammer 404s Again

Inevitably this post about 404 errors and comment spam got spam comments that broken the pattern with multiple 404s generated for one comment from IPs around the world.  Nice to know that it stimulated someone to go to all that trouble.  Still the usual suspects still fit the pattern.  None of them got past the […]

Vue Search Sites Automated and Other Site Tweaks

Back in October I did some fiddling with the Vue sites search engine that uses Google custom search to let you search the sites in my Vue links directory. Each time the list of sites changed I had to manually upload a file listing the sites to be included that was generated from the database […]

Comments Spammer 404s Revisited

I’ve been meaning to revisit my WordPress 404 Errors for Spam Comments but somehow it kept slipping through the cracks. I was at a bit of a loose end so I did a quick run through my spam comment log and my site’s error logs… There were 424 spam comments to my site in December […]

WordPress 404 Errors for Spam Comments

Ever since I rebuilt my website with WordPress and imported my blog from blogspot I’ve kept an eye on my server error logs.  I like to make sure people who arrive here from the old blog or from other links end up where they were looking to go. While I’ve redirects that catch almost all […]

Wordless Wednesday #35

Photograph of slope covered in Daffodils in Sefton Park, Liverpool

Wordless Wednesday #34

Photograph of Mossley Hill, Liverpool from Sefton Park

Wordless Wednesday #33: Waterfalling

Fort Knox

I thought I’d post another satellite picture after last weeks picture of the boneyard. Being a fan of the old Bond film Goldfinger I thought Fort Knox and the United States Bullion Depository (the large building with nothing around it at the bottom of the map). View Larger Map

Aircraft Boneyard

I noticed that several newspapers had shots taken from Google Earth of the eleven square kilometer US Airforce 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group Aircraft Boneyard today so I thought I’d dig it up on Google maps to have a look myself. View Larger Map