Cox Crow

Would you believe that I only just found this RCS feature? How? Jenny linked to Phil Wolff. In his sidebar he links to it.

10:08:55 PM #
categories: Writing Online

Readership

A Little Corner of One's Own, or Radio and Blogging, a few more weeks on: Still, it would even help to get just a few referrer entries from somewhere besides http://127.0.0.1:5335/...
[Dr. Bonzo: Bonzo I/O]

A long time ago, February 27, 2002, to be exact, I quoted Andrew Sullivan in pages I wrote using blogger, days before Ernie the Attorney 'blogged his first post. Mr. Sullivan discussed how 'blogs empower the individual writer by lowering the costs of publishing. I wrote:

To write, the costs of entry are low, as soon as you become literate. To publish, however, the costs were high: ink, paper, and distribution. And so relatively few published. Now, the challenge is not to be published, but to be read.

I found that Dr. Bonzo has read my blatherings at least once, courtesy of Google. Simplified exposure of subscription lists should help broaden the distribution.

Reading your web logs, or an analysis of them, is more direct than Google, but doesn't provide the feedback that a quote and a link do. On the other hand, it can tell you that you have exactly two subscribers with static IP addresses:

%gzcat www.20020528.gz | grep rss.xml | awk '{print $1 " " $11}' | sort -u
12.xxx.xxx.xxx "http://frontier.userland.com/xmlAggregator"
150.xxx.xxx.xxx "http://frontier.userland.com/xmlAggregator"

8:54:50 PM # Google It!
categories: Media, Writing Online

Speed Freaks

Fairbanks to Amsterdam in 13 seconds. Now if I could just get an on-ramp to the Information Superhighway that allows for high-speed merges.

6:58:06 PM # Google It!
categories: Industry

Mr. Pepper, meet Mr. Lieberman; Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Pepper.

"[T]he FCC's goal is ubiquitous broadband availability and minimal regulation built on the Internet's open, end-to-end tradition."
—"Riding the Tiger," Steve Gillmor, Infoworld

I know the RBOCs like the minimal regulation component, but it's hard to tell if they see the potential in the open, end-to-end tradition as well. Microsoft, of all companies, sees this opportunity. I don't think the ILECs are completely oblivious.

In any case, unless there's a hidden agenda, the activities of the three branches of our government are converging.

5:49:22 PM # Google It!
categories: Industry

Testing a Design Goal of the Internet

Will it survive?

4:47:31 PM # Google It!
categories: Sadness

Have you been wormed?

As usual, incidents.org has a good analysis of the Worm of the Week. If you've followed the vendor's recommended best practices and lockdown guides, you won't have been compromised by this SQLsnake. Note that Microsoft SQL Server may have been installed as part of other products, under the pseudonym Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE).

4:02:09 PM # Google It!
categories: Security, System Administration

Anti-social Networking

Speaking of social networking, I'd like to see an analysis of whose addresses Klez is using. Some variants of the worm extract e-mail addresses from the Windows Address Book (and other places) to falsify the From: header, as well as to provide target addresses, found in the To: header. The version forwarded to me goes further in its nematode fun, by using one of the found addresses in the Reply-To:, so that non-delivery notifications are returned to a fourth party.

Unfortunately, I don't have any other samples in my mailbox. I guess this means that the people who have me in their address books are 1) not using infectable products, or 2) not inept.

12:05:09 PM # Google It!
categories: Security