Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
The Register on the “Bagle Worm”
I have a sig file that says “You must be smarter than >—- this stick to put a machine on the Internet”. People who, in this day and age, click on an email attachment in a message with a subject line of “Hi” and a body text that just consists of the line “Test, yep :)” have failed that test.
What the fuck is wrong with you Windows users? I’d say you have the brains of kelp, but that would be an insult to kelp.
According to my web logs, two of you have syndicated me as “rantsnrevel” (Vicki and Jen) and somebody else has me syndicated as “ptomblin”. I don’t know who it is who has me syndicated as “ptomblin”, but if you were to switch to using “rantnrevel”, your syndication cost would go down (and so would Vicki and Jen’s).
First thing: Clock radio isn’t working right. We’ve been on vacation, so we haven’t been using it. I remembered to turn it on, but evidently the tuning has drifted because all we hear is static. I attempted to retune it in my usual groggy state, but not very successfully. It apparently doesn’t want to recieve any radio stations this morning.
Second thing: Cable modem isn’t working. “Cable” light isn’t on. Wonder of wonders, though, when I call Time Warner they actually admit there is a problem. In the past, my history with Time Warner has been that I call to report a problem, and they say that nothing is wrong anywhere, so they schedule a service call about 4 or 5 days from now. An hour or two later, I call and there is a huge wait time on hold because everybody else in Rochester has discovered their cable modems aren’t working either, and when I finally get through this time they admit the problem, and I cancel the service call and then some time later the cable modem comes on.
Third thing: My badge doesn’t work in the turnstyle at work. Oh oh. I’m a contractor, and contractors live on a hair trigger anyway, especially since Kodak stock is plummetting. Could this be the long-feared layoff? Turns out no, it’s just some paperwork didn’t get done.
When I finally get into work, my home page loads so I know that the cable modem access at home has come back magically, so I log back in to find mail and news flowing. So things are looking up a bit.
The person poking around looking for unlinked information was a shy relative. Not creepy, just a little naive about what we would or wouldn’t notice. Now that she’s made contact, I’m sure her half-sisters will be happy to give her more information. Welcome to our web sites, Helli.
Somebody in Finland has been reading all our blogs. It appears that he/she/it started with Stevie or Laura’s, which isn’t all the surprising since they have a Finnish last name. And he’s followed the links from those blogs to Vicki’s and mine. Not a big deal – if we didn’t want random strangers reading our blogs, we’d make them private.
But now it appears this person has gone a step beyond. They are no longer just following links, they are fishing around for files that aren’t there. Looking at this IP, I see attempts to reference
/~rose/me /~rose/lstevie /~rose/mom /~rose/dad /~rose/home /~rose/friends /~rose/school /~rose/my%20pictures /~rose/my_pictures /~laura/me /~laura /~laura/laura /~laura/dad /~laura/sis /~laura/sys /~laura/stevie /~calsabon/me /~calsabon/stevie /~calsabon/laura /~calsabon/mom /~calsabon/dad
and I’m more than a little creeped out.
So whoever is at 81.197.2.111, listen up: Looking for information nobody invited you to look at is a violation of our privacy. Identify yourself or find your IP blocked and a complaint lodged with your ISP. And quit looking for things that aren’t there.