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Gppgle.com
Google owns Gppgle.com.
Apparently, typos are common enough to make them mirror Google (the search engine) on Gppgle.com. Case in point: hits from Gppgle.com in this weblog.
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Referrer spam revisited
Less than 3 weeks ago I wrote about referrer spam from fake blog sites. Today, as I peruse my access logs as part of my end-of-the-month ritual, I find myself again a victim of referrer spam.
I am getting hits from [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] (all redirected via JavaScript so that search engines ignore them). It doesn't take a Photohunt expert to notice the similarities in each site. Amazing how this sites are appear to be purely legitimate - there is a dictionary site, a Bushido site and even an academic society's anniversy meeting website . Most are just simply facades once you try to click around - links either lead back to the webroot or take you to some external site.
My conjecture: someone owns this collection of sites and is trying to get a high PageRank for the sites, either to later sell them off or for further abuse. Anyone else have a theory?
Anyhow, you can view my .htaccess to see my blacklist of referrer spamming sites as well as a mod_rewrite method of blocking referrers.
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The best list of CSS filters, so far
Chris of dithered.com has compiled a list of CSS filters. For those not in the know, CSS filters are techniques that hide CSS rules from browsers who misinterpret, abuse or just plain don't understand them.
In more personal news, I've been slaving away at putting out a technical paper and a thesis for my honors project. Now you know why I've been so quiet. Well, you can read my scrapped together About page (that finally has some content) to keep yourself entertained. Yeah, right.
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Textpattern - a promising CMS sprouts its wings
Textpattern, a content management system written in PHP by Dean Allen (of Textism and Textile fame), has just been released to the public.
Curiousity piqued by what it promised to offer about a year ago (when it was in closed development), I made it a point to check out Textpattern once any release is made. I took a quick install and run through of Textpattern gamma 1.11 and am pleased to report that it delivers on its promises. This has the makings of the next big weblog publishing tool (bigger than MT?), or even the next big CMS. More on this after I play around with it a bit more.
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MS Excel confounds me
This is the error message I get when I try to open 2 documents with the same name, but in different directories, in Microsoft Excel:
A document with the name 'CR.wine.GA.1.csv' is already open. You cannot open two documents with the same name, even if the documents are in different folders.
To open the second document, either close the document that's currently open, or rename one of the documents.
Emphasis mine. Why can't I? We'll never know how Excel is implemented (unless there's a MS Office source code leak), but this is pretty dumb if you ask me, considering how easy it is to get by this technical difficulty. Perhaps there is some perfectly rational explanation why there is absolutely no way that Excel would be able to work with 2 documents of the same name, or if there is, it is more work than it's worth. I'd like to hear that explanation.
Oh wait, I believe I should Google it. Hmm... Toby Allen reports the same thing, and Joel Spolsky has this plausible explanation:
"I think it's because when you have an external reference (of the form foo.xls!A1) they only had 8 bytes in the data structure to store the file name. It's kind of shocking that 10 years later nobody has fixed this, ...
Well, still not fixed in Office 2003.
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