August, 12, 2004 archives
i’m getting too old for this
blo.gs appears to be under some sort of strange indirect attack. it’s being hammered by various robots trying to index search results. so there’s requests from the feedster bot, the technorati bot, and all sorts of bots i’ve never even heard of. oh, and the the yahoo!, google, and msn bots have all decided to get in on the action.
it is extremely strange. perhaps it is supposed to be some sort of clever distributed denial of service?
break-even
last month, the revenue from google adsense ads was almost exactly equal to my monthly hosting bill.
this response to a news article about redeveloping an area in the miami area is spot on. (via hit & run.)