“No boom?” – Michael Garibaldi
“No boom.” – Cmdr Jeffrey Sinclair
“No boom today. Boom tomorrow. Always a boom tomorrow.” – Lt. Cmdr Susan Ivanova
Stuck on HGTV
So now that we’re buying a house, the TV seems to be permanently stuck on HGTV. Even Food Network has been forced to take a back seat to the home improvement and decorating/redecorating shows like Design Remix, Decorating Cents and Weekend Warriors. I’m relegated to sneaking peeks on most of the other shows I like to watch now.
Watching these shows is interesting though. Home improvement doesn’t seem that difficult. I think even I could do some of this stuff. Lots of work, and having the right tools seems to help. Of course it also helps to know what you’re doing too. But then again, that’s what shows like these are for, right?
Ok, when does Lowe’s open…
Streaming Orange
Took this one yesterday morning at sunrise. It’s a little blurry because of a slow shutter speed (1/4s) and lack of a tripod, but I think it captures nicely the neat orangy sunlight I get to wake up to most mornings.
Back to basics
Well, the hardwood flooring throughout the house ended up being too expensive, so it’s back to plain old carpet. The flooring that the builder was going to be put in was the solid ~3/4″ wood plank-nail to the floor-3 coats of polyurethane type floor, not the thin snap together panel type floor. The wife is none too pleased about giving up the wood floor, but I figure we can always do the hardwood flooring a couple of years down the road anyway.
I think we’ll have to get a second Roomba to help clean all the extra space.
Beating off referrer spam with mod_security
Mod_security so far has been quite effective at beating off the referrer spammers since I installed a few rules. It seems to have gotten even better since using blacklist_to_modsec to generate a bunch of rules based on MT Blacklist.
According to my stats, my server went from serving up at least 50MB of bandwidth/month to spammers (11 000 + requests/month) over the last two months (and that was just 403, 404 and 500 errors) to just 550kB (1500+ requests) so far this month (my default mod_security action is to send a 412 Precondition Failed error). They’re still there and banging away, but instead of having to serve up the entire page requested, all they get is a 350 byte error page. That means a heck of a lot less bandwidth that I have to waste on spammers. There are still a few sneaking through, but it’s not nearly as bad as it was before.
To paraphrase Flo, Kiss my bits spammers.