blagosphere

i have a server hosting a handful of sites. a combined total of about 6000 visitors per month.

in the last year, seven URLs have accounted for 58% of all error pages on that server. you'll never guess what they were.

that's right, they were seven trackback URLs for i heart stella, the scooter blog i host on that box. to give you a hint of the magnitude of this problem, i installed trackbacks on that blog in may, and only used them for about a week. those seven URLs have been returning "404: file not found" for almost seven months.

so far this year, ive received over three hundred thousand trackback attempts for pages that don't exist. i can guarantee that not one of them was legit.

you people make me sick.

this guy named farzad fard owes dave from the scooter lounge a lot of money. looks like he makes a habit out of writing bad checks and screwing people who trust him. read more about farzad fard...

provo/orem business owners, look out for this guy.

i think this thing needs a bit more contrast... and it's looked the same for a while, so i'm kinda tired of it. i wanted to get it done before NaBloPoMo, but school and work conspired against me. it's almost done though: check it out and let me know what you think...

note: i know it's broken in IE6. if you still use that, you should be kicked. i'll fix it later

answers to a few questions from my server logs:

• where does the justin come from?
  i'm from the southeastern end of washington state, but i currently reside in utah county, utah.
• is your space cooler?
  yes, my space is cooler than yours.
• how do i carry a loaded gun?
  i wouldn't suggest carrying it in your pants, unless you want to become another strange google search result

ISPs need to stop taking down blogs because of legal threats. it just riles up the blagosphere.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. —John Gilmore (EFF)

look how long it took for Craig Murray's website to come back...

Blog Action Day 2007

we don't care what you say, just that you're saying something...

any of you remember ValleySchwag? a company that (for a $15 monthly subscription) sent random t-shirts and other schwag every month. it intrigued me, but i never signed up. then it went away. but there's a new company on the block, and they're going to give it another go: i just signed up for Startup Schwag.

"Startup Schwag™ is a surprise web2.0 startup tshirt of the month club. There may be more schwag (stickers, random chochkis) at some point, possibly even in the first shipment *wink-wink* but that’ll be another surprise.

it's an interesting insight into tech culture that i'm willing to pay to advertise someone else's company...

apparently i'm 88% addicted to the blagosphere. i think that might be an underestimation...

as i post this, i'm listening to one blog and reading another.

88%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

It turns out that Ed at Sherwin-Williams is douche.

when i get frustrated or stressed, justin hileman dot info gets upgraded. on that note, my blog has a couple of new features that you prob'ly didn't even notice. most of you won't care, but i'll point 'em out anyway. because i'm a nerd like that.

a couple of days ago my coworker jacob was looking through his server logs and noticed that several people found his site by searching for "jacob is so stupid". when we found out about it, he was near the bottom of the second page on google...

we (a.k.a. myself and other coworkers, not jacob) decided that we could do a bit of grassroots seo work for his site, and help his page rankings in the process. so if you have a minute, google "jacob is so stupid" (no quotes), and click on his blog. (his domain name is jacob.peargrove.com, the page is called "Jacob's Blog" or "Jacob’s Blog » 2007 » January").

as of the time of this post, his blog was showing up around the top of page two.

justin hileman dot info has been updated. please allow me to draw your attention to the links at the bottom of the main page. i'm pretty excited about a couple. specifically the two with little arrows next to them.

you should click on them.

if you've visited my myspace profile recently, you've noticed that it doesn't look much like a standard myspace profile. which i'm pretty stoked about, since the hideousness of most myspace profiles approaches obscenity.

one key element in the makeover of my space is the blog. you see, i have way too many blogs already, so i really don't want to post to all of them. and i usually just end up crossposting everything from my regular blog to the myspace blog.

so i replaced it.

for those of you not already in the know, i have another blog... it's called i <3 stella. i started it around the beginning my west coast scooter adventure last summer.

check it out :)