Dogs and soap.

Who knew? Fight club style soap (minus the midnight run) and dog training. This will be a hoot.

NSFW – Hamell on Trial

Cyveillance bot

The scenario:

You set up a new website and are excited for the client to kick the tires. You check logs regularly, and see someone from the correct town hitting the site. But, it looks like they aren’t really sure what’s going on, and then send something that resembles someone fishing for an old exploit.

You talk to the client and mention it to them in passing, and it turns out they haven’t hit the site. So you email an abuse notification to the registration, and what comes back? A canned reply, it turns out to be the cyveillance bot “protecting and serving” by masquerading as a person. Hrrm. That earns a ban. Get some couth, cyveillance.

Justinmind

I need to get some quick wireframes out the door. I was going to do them in Omnigraffle, but as someone I know and respect said, it kinda gets in the way. I’ll have to see if that holds true for Justinmind. They could certainly do with a faster server, 23 minutes for a 63M file is a little much. I guess I can go make some espresso now…

…and, not a fan.

A suggestion for Freelancer.com

I registered over there today and looked through the listings. Here are a couple of things that I think would be good ideas:

Add captcha to try and stop all the scripted autobids from Bulgaria. How in the world can anyone posting a project take any of the bids seriously with that going on? Much less give any kind of server access to actually fix problems. Yeah, I’m sure I’d let one of those guys in…

Get rid of the captcha monkeys. Good lord. No wonder spam is so bad. They even have an executable to download on one of them. Seriously?

Get rid of the “Buy 5000 fans on Facebook” contracts.

Ban the Craigslist spammers.

The site is a good idea, but good lord, it’s almost like wading through crack or keygen sites, kind of cesspoolish.

Once again…

… I was fooled. It looked like Windows might be the path of least resistance for a project. And, once again, burned. There’s three hours of my life I’ll never get back. Hello again, Ubuntu.

Lots of stuff to experiment with.

Old-schooling a website…

… for my buddy Sparky. And it’s fun! Gonna throw a bit of HTML 5 in there just for shits and giggles. I’ll let you know how it goes.

I thought I was listening to Lucinda Williams

But it’s not! It’s Carrie Rodriguez singing “50′s French Movie”! I’m in love:

Occasionally, lucidity abounds.

I hit a birthday this weekend, and some stuff happened back home with my grandmother that got me thinking. I put up a site a while back, and I guess it’s time to start pushing it:

The first badge kind of says it all.