14. September, 2003 - coding on a sunday morning
- I’ve modified how I display the Last 10 Referrers list a bit, and also the code that serves up every page on Dave’s Picks. If you’re seeing a problem I hope you’ll let me know, but you probably won’t be able to read this. Basically I’ve got a list of sites that have referer spammed me, and if someone tries to read a page on this site, with one of those sites as a referer, they’ll get a 403 Forbidden error and no content. Yes, I’m breaking part of the web and part of my website, and I feel bad about it, but these are almost always either search engines that don’t check for robots.txt before spidering my site and send a bogus referer in their request (a search engine should send nothing for the referer, IMHO) or porn sites that are trying to get more hits. Well, screw ’em. They get nothing. Hopefully this won’t break too many legitimate users of the site, but I do expect to see some problems. If you’ve got a better idea, feel free to send it along. I’m thinking that I’ll probably end up pulling the last-ten thing eventually, but maybe there’s a smart idea out there that will put that day off.
- Welcome again to Accordion Guy readers. Go back to Thursday for more about why Joey’s thanking me.
- Yesterday I walked down to East Hennepin for some lunch and a bit of shopping. I ended up stopping at Panera Bread for the first time ever, and had their Italian Combo sandwich. It was good enough, but I was a little disappointed. The sandwich, a bag of chips, and a medium pop was $8. If I get the same thing at Delmonico’s for a couple bucks less, and a lot more friendly chatter while my sandwich is being assembled (and yes, Delmonico’s is still for sale if you know anyone who wants a house and grocery store.) As an added bonus, later in the evening, it became apparent that the Panera sandwich had gone thorugh me like grass through a goose. I’m pretty sure I won’t be eating there again. Oh well, at least it was out of my system relatively quickly.
- After lunch, I walked up to Kramarczuk’s for some shopping. Pastrami, Polish Ham and Moroccan Lamb Sausage came home with me for lunches over the next week or so. Yummy!
- What can Charles Darwin can teach Tom Ridge about homeland security? To Adapt or Die. Good points through the article, including the one that the Department of Homeland Security is probably not the right response. [some guy]
- Hit-run crashes now low priority in Minneapolis. Basically if the police can’t catch the person who hits you right away, you’re going to have to track them down yourself. Or have an insurance company that will, and that’s not one of the things they advertise about their service.
- Speaking of traffic, The battle of the bottleneck: We’re all choked up in the Twin Cities by poor highway planning in the 50s and 60s. It doesn’t help that evening rush hour seems to start about 2:30pm now, rather than the 3:30pm it did less than ten years ago, either. Me, I try to avoid driving long distances for work. I’ll probably be even more careful about where companies I work for are located in the future, especially if they insist that I come to the office periodically. [strib]
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Last updated on Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:17:53.