July ‘07 - Firefox, Spam, Searches, and other Miscellany
I’m back and as random as ever (if you couldn’t judge by the title). It’s time for a late July update. My mom said, “You haven’t posted anything since the 6th! Get with it!”
Firefox
This month I volunteered to contribute an article to Mozilla’s new work-in-progress codenamed the SUMO project. I think it stands for SUpport MOzilla. Anyways, it’s a database full of help topics for Firefox users to browse when they encounter problems or when they just want to know how to do something with Firefox. As a thank you, I received a bright orange Firefox T-shirt (unlike the picture - apparantly the Mozilla store doesn’t sell orange) in the mail along with a handwritten thank you card from JT in the marketing department (on Mozilla stationery). Thanks, JT. Now I look like a real geek… or at least that’s what my siblings think.
Spam
I’m starting to make a dent in the referral spam I started receiving by the truckload last month. I installed Referrer Karma after Bad Behavior didn’t seem to do the trick. RK has dished out hundreds and hundreds (maybe thousands) of 403 pages to would-be referral spammers. They are no longer zapping bandwidth, but unfortunately, they still show up in my Awstats logs somehow. If anyone reading this has a better idea for killing referral spam please comment.
Searches
What would an end-of-the-month post be without a listing of my crazy searches from this month? I’m beginning to think that blogs are extremely susceptible to crazy searches by nature that a typical blog page contains perhaps 10 (sometimes lengthy) posts on completely unrelated subjects. When a search engine crawls my website, it stores away quite a conglomeration of “random” words when pieced together into search strings makes for some laughs. Ok, here we go…
- lebanon bologna - this (I suspect) was a Google Images search. Strangely, however, I received all 11 hits from this search string all in one day…
- eric whitacre water night 14 part harmony - ooo, I could sink my teeth into that for sure
- -0-10-20 - what is this? Some sort of locker combination?
- www.peteranglea.com/2006/12/ most relaxing piano album in the world ever! disc 2 download - will the owner of this search string please come forward so I can shake your hand! You’ve won the “longest, most randomest search string for PeterAnglea.com ever” award.
- diatonic humor - why did the diatonic scale cross the road? I dunno. You tell me.
- rubber ducks invading england - I know, I wrote a post about this. But it does sound pretty funny does it not?
- yahtzee how to pronounce - YOT-zee
- ie bugs laptop scroll minimize maximize window - if you could please state your tech support request in manageable terms, I will be glad to help you out.
- why am i unable to breath at times - asthma.
- cleaver german phrases - you mean clever. Sorry, ich sprache kein Duetsch.
- bju.edu traffic popularity - how am I supposed to know?
- prepare to meet thy god played on piano - I can’t say that’s in my repertoire, no.
- how to play nice piano harmony - well, it’s not something I could explain to you in one blog post.
They get more random all the time, folks.
Miscellany
I played my trumpet for a friend’s wedding on the 14th as she came down the aisle. Congrats Chrissy and Stephen.- I convinced Evan, the best man and brother of the groom, to hop in the back of the getaway car. Hilarious!
- Classes start 4 weeks from tomorrow - ACK!!
- I will be in the BJU Concert Choir. We’re going to be joining forces with the BJU Chorale for a supercool concert in the fall. Be there, be square.
Our church youth group just returned from a week and a half mission trip to Forest Glen Bible Camp in Nova Scotia. 6 kids made salvation decisions!- I had a gum transplant operation a little while back and everything is finally healed.
- I lost royally at mini-golf last week.
- Don’t put your iPhone into a blender.
Another side note of miscellany, I’m working on a top-secret surprise to be revealed right here at PeterAnglea.com in about a month for all BJU students… keep your eyes peeled.
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