Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
Actually, she’s based in LaPine, but since LaPine isn’t an incorporated city yet, she’s going on the Bend blogroll. Welcome to Simone Paddock, a photographer who’s maintained a blog for a couple years, it would appear.
My request from before stands: If anybody knows of anybody that’s a blogger in Bend (or the area) that isn’t listed on my Blogroll, let me know.
If you’ve noticed the site’s been a bit less than responsive, bear with me, as the server that this site is on is falling victim to some jackass spammer on the server. Please be patient while my Web host is tracking the butthead down so he can shut him down. So if you’ve written me an email, it’ll get to me — eventually.
I’ve got another item to add to my to-do list. Instead of fixing my preview template, I’ve got a better idea: Just incorporate real-time preview as you type. Link via Waxy’s Links.
Could you write, cast, shoot, score, and edit an entire movie in a day? For $10,000, these guys gave it a whirl. Interesting concept with bios of some of the competitors and a timeline of the day’s events.
I’ve heard penguins make nice pets. Really. Link from Neil.
Current bid on this bad boy is right around $70-million. I really don’t know what’s more entertaining: That somebody’s selling an Aircraft Carrier on eBay, or that the boat is listed in the “28+ Foot Power Boat” category.
Since everybody else is linking to this, I might as well: 101 ways to save the Internet.
We’ve got another foot of snow on the ground this morning (and I’d have pictures if my USB Cable for my company’s digital camera was anywhere to be found). The roads here are awful. ODOT is telling everybody to stay home. They’re considering closing one of the mountain passes (considering it looks like this, I don’t blame them). It’s a mess all over Oregon.
The Portland area is getting beat up, too, and I know this is the first time in a long time I’ve seen this much snow on I-5. Granted, it’s not nearly as much snow as we have here on the other side of the mountains, but we’re a bit more prepared over here for it (or at least we pretend we are).
The work web cam shows how much snow is in Sunriver, and you can see the snow on the local roads so you can see that it’s just a mess out there (and those roads aren’t in too bad of shape because they’re major roads and are plowed more).
Folks: stay home. Please. It’s New Years. Watch some football.
OK, on my Dada/Mojo powered nightly-mailings, I have about 10 people that are using AOL or Netscape.net (out of the 50 or so on my mailing list). Well, apparently AOL thinks I send those people too many e-mails and am spamming (despite the fact that I have another Dada install that send a mailing to about 150 AOLers, and it’s not banned). Note that if I were still using Bloglet, I would’ve never got these bounces back to see what was going on, but here are the bounces I got back:
SMTP error from remote mailer after initial connection:
host mailin-03.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.25]: 554-(RLY:B1) The information presently available to AOL indicates this
554-server is generating high volumes of member complaints from AOL’s
554-member base. Based on AOL’s Unsolicited Bulk E-mail policy at
554-http://www.aol.com/info/bulkemail.html AOL may not accept further
554-e-mail transactions from this server or domain. For more information,
554 please visit http://postmaster.info.aol.com.
I’m sending two messages per second, using the SMTP settings in Dada, and that’s hardly bulldozing the server. And my domain/IP isn’t blacklisted so why on earth is this happening?
Regardless, my Web host’s abuse department is looking into it. Does anybody out there have an AOL account (that they want to admit to ;-)) that I can email from this domain to see if it gets bounced?
So if you’re on my mailing list, and are using AOL or Netscape.net (two very poor choices, in my opinion), you’re probably not going to get it. Understand, folks, that if you get your Internet access from those folks, you don’t have to use them for e-mail. Yahoo! Mail has always been pretty good to me as an extra account, but there are dozens that are better than AOL, that’s for sure.