The site’s still getting hammered. I’m simplifying and removing SSIs while trying to make sure things still work.

Calling CGIs from SSIs makes the web server choke on it’s lunch.
Calling CGIs from SSIs makes the web server choke on it’s lunch.
Calling CGIs from SSIs makes the web server….

I’m feeling a bit dumb at the moment, compounded by the fact that I’ve been meaning to make that process more efficient but hadn’t gotten around to it yet. Well, now I have. Thanks Bill, sorry for gumming everything up.

Over the past month or so I’ve been emailed about a dozen Nigerian scam letters. The first one freaked me out and I forwarded it to the FBI. But as more and more came, they became entertaining, sort of like the Rejuvenique Infomercial.

I just found The Spam Letters where these Nigerian money scams have helped create a very entertaining exchange. This site would make a great book. via Dog Door of Death

The Privatization of Our Culture A deliciously reactionary read. found on the always excellent Follow Me Here

Worthy thoughts made public are immediately beyond their thinker’s control. Free and open ideas survive, closed and restricted ideas accelerate their eventually disappearance. Sometimes quality will free an idea, but not always. Thoughts are as alive as the beings that have them, and judged by faster and more merciless evolutionary laws.

All the money and all the lawyers in the world can’t shove the genie back into the bottle.

I would spend much more time worrying about intellectual property issues if people would stop killing each other in the name of various gods. When/if the world settles down again I look forward to focusing on important things that seem otherwise trivial by comparison.

05:34:39 – Someone searches Google UK for images of “Blinking” and clicks the Sound of One Eye Blinking image.

08:28:47 – Someone searches Google Canada for images of ” blinking” and clicks the Sound of One Eye Blinking image.

10:19:30 – Someone searches Google Germany for images of “Sound” and clicks the Sound of One Eye Blinking image.

I really need to update that page…

The US may be sending military advisors to Georgia. So where is where is Georgia? On the southern border of Chechnya with ports on the Black Sea.

Chechnya is a mess.
Chechnya has been a mess for a long time.
Chechnya is full of oil.

This has the potential to get much uglier. US Troops are already in Saudi Arabia and Turkmenistan/Uzbekistan/Afghanistan, adding Georgia surrounds Iran on three sides. Iran is without a doubt the strategic linchpin of the Middle East, bordering on Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Pakistan, The Persian Gulf, The Caspian Sea and the Gulf of Oman. Even Saudi Arabia doesn’t control as much geographic importance or influence. If Iran is a target, and it seems that they are, moving troops to Georgia now has them surrounded on three sides.

Troops in Georgia would also likely open the Black Sea to US/NATO war and supply ships. These supplies could be moved by land across Geogia, placing them very close to the Caspian Sea. Tehran is basically sitting on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea. The Caspian Sea is also full of oil.

The whole big mess is becoming more and more about oil, for the US and Russia. The world is running out of oil and there’s not much to replace it yet.

Hello to everyone clicking through from Zeldman’s Daily Report.
(I was wondering where the flood of hits was coming from)