~larcher

Along with the new host, I finally got around to installing some web stats software .. and by install I mean I clicked the “Install Webalizer” button on the host’s management page .. sometimes it’s nice to do stuff the easy way

Anyway, I’m looking at these stats .. and one single host has accounted for nearly 70% of the traffic (>200 megs of it) and 40% of the hits. Holy crap! About every 4 seconds (!?) I get a hit from rss.allresearch.com with a user agent of "Mozilla/4.0 (WebClipping.com)". And if just grabbing all of spoon.cx in less than a minute wasn’t bad enough, they’re fetching each page multiple times .. in the same day .. not the front page of the blog or anything, but the archives, pages which haven’t changed in years, literally! Some of these pages they fetched 100 – 200 times in the last 2 days!

So this new host also has the ability to block IP’s .. that address again was rss.allresearch.com or 38.144.36.19. For now, this is faster than telling them their crawler is broken, assuming they don’t already know (which I bet they do) and that they care (bet they don’t) .. At least I get a chance to try out that new nofollow tag

There’s this really good Thai restaurant on Northgate across from campus called Nipa Hot .. and apparently it’s closing this month. Already making plans to head back to College Station some weekend and eat there one last time..

( article about Nipa Hot in the batt )

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• Delta Mk II - The Orb Orblivion
• I miss you – Bjork
• Fluffy – Spaceghost – Musical Bar-B-Que
• Dry The Rain – The Beta Band – The Three E.P.‘s
• Army Of Me – Bjork
• Summertime – Miles Davis
• Asylum – The Orb – Orblivion
• Dark & Long – Underworld – Dubnobasswithmyheadman
• In A Landscape – William Orbit – Pieces in a Modern Style
• Car24 – Yoko Kanno + The Seatbelts – Cowboy Bebop OST 1
• Couldn’t Cause Me Harm – Beth Orton – Central Reservation
• Hyper-Ballad – Bjork – Post
• The Steward of Gondor – Howard Shore & Billy Boyd – LOTR ROTK
• Everything Is Wrong – Moby – Everything Is Wrong
• Circles – Soul Coughing – El Oso

Top 10ish from the iPod .. which i use nearly everyday but still doesn’t include all the music i listen to
(can’t export a songlist of iPod tracks for some reason?)

• Postal Service – Such Great Heights (played 23 times(!))
• The Shins – New Slang (18)
• DNTtel – (This is) The Dream of Evan and Chad (15)
• Mogwai – billisdead (14)
• Coldplay – Don’t Panic (13)
• DNtel – Fear of Corners (13)
• Royksopp – In Space
• Beth Orton – Sweetest Decline (12)
• Claude Debussy – Claire de Lune
• Son Volt – Chanty
• Aquabats – Welcome to Eltingville (11)
• Bjork – Triumph of a Heart

other bands and albums that showed up near the top

• Garden State soundtrack
• Royksopp – Melody AM
• Postal Service – Give Up
• DNtel – Life is Full of Possibilities
• The Shins
• Gotan Project
• Sigur Ros

Some of those have been on the iPod longer than others ..