Top 10 search queries bring people to my blog

1. w32codec related for debian/ubuntu -- 4720
I'm not able to play DVDs and WMVs using xine. A better resource is
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats

2. gideon taylor -- 2095

Back in 2003, I purchased his 1857 family bible on ebay, it is
nice that it is back in the family again. Seems to also be the
name mentioned in an anti-semitic tract on the internet.

3. ipodder on debian/ubuntu related -- 1012

I wrote about getting early iPodder versions working on
debian/sarge and Ubuntu. It as since been packaged up and in the
debian/ubuntu repositories.

4. xinerama support on debian/ubuntu -- 234

X11 dual head support -- I had it working on Ubuntu/Dapper but an X
upgrade last month broke it. It seems the xorg.conf I was using
isn't quite right...

5. installing ubuntu -- 219

I'm kind of surprised of that many hits. I'm currently running
Ubuntu/Dapper on my corporate hp nc6000 laptop.

6. ive seen things ive seen them with my eyes -- 217

Who doesn't love that flash video?

7. grub related -- 185

The hp/compaq ProLiant servers include the SmartArray RAID whose
cciss driver uses /dev/cciss/c0d0p0 for the first partition which
still confuses grub. There is a simple work around.

8. hollie vise -- 176

Hollie Vise was at Gymnastics Village where Trevor is on the boys
team. I took a couple crappy photos.

9. gymnastics videos -- 156

I had some short videos of Trevor (Level 5 Boys), but took them
down when I started running out of web space.

10. flickr uploadr -- 132
I hacked a quick nautilus wrapper around an existing perl-based
Flickr::Uploadr and made it available. Lately I've been using
jUploadr.

And some random searches...

166 people look for words that rhyme with something (bacteria rhymes, what rhymes with becoming)

51+ hits for people looking for maggot or larvae infested breast


Guatemalan sex pictures -- 2

2004 Lisa Directory @aol.com -- 2

donating blood blogs -- 1

People stealing my bandwidth (and no credit to me!)

I was looking through my web logs recently and found a number of people were displaying my images
on their websites. Sure it is a bit flattering that someone liked my photo of our rug was perfect for the background of their blog or thought that embedding a 1M photo I took of John Kerry and Howard Dean in a high traffic web forums [1 | 2] was a good idea. However they sucked up nearly 200M of my monthly bandwidth quota and didn't even give me credit for the photos. You know, I think that may be the worst part.

So this evening I googled around for the magic Apache configuration commands that would prevent
JPG/GIF images from being embedded in someone else's web page. (ie: one not hosted on
nozell.com)

For the record, just pop this in a file named ".htaccess" in the same directory as were the images
are located and it will refuse to let GIF/JPG images to be loaded from other sites.




SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://.*nozell.com/" local_ref=1

<filesmatch ".(gif|jpg)">

Order Allow,Deny

Allow from env=local_ref

</filesmatch>



Read Ken Coar's Preventing Image 'Theft' tutorial for complete details.

Crucial Firefox extensions

+ del.icio.us plugin -- Add/remove/edit del.icio.us bookmarks from a right mouse click.

* Foxylicious -- grabs your del.icio.us bookmarks and adds them to your local Firefox bookmarks.

* sitebar plugin -- An alternative to del.icio.us. I started running a copy of the SiteBar server on my home Linux box, but it is just simpler to use del.icio.us and for private bookmarks to just keep it locally (internal corporate links, etc)

* webdeveloper plugin -- I don't use it much, but it is handy to find any links within a webpage.

* SwitchProxy tool -- switch proxies as needed. Useful when if you connect to various networks with different proxies settings.

Gross! Gross! Gross!

So this afternoon I saw BoingBoing's article about Larval therapy and just had to blog about my own personal gross-out -- maggots!

Months ago there was a picture of an allegedly maggot infested breast, but that was debunked on Snopes. To exorcise my personal demons, I started hunting for the real thing and found this -- 'Furuncular myiasis of the breast caused by the larvae of the Tumbu fly (Cordylobia anthropophaga)'.

And just what does that mean? Well, here is a better description:

We report a 70 year old woman who presented with a week history of itchy multiple discharging sinuses of the right breast. The sinuses contained wriggling larvae of C. anthropophaga. Fourteen larvae were extracted from the breast and the sinuses healed quite well after the extraction.

Head on over for the photos, but stay for the video.

Man, that is freaking gross! Check out how those suckers wiggle around! Ugh! Unclean! Unclean!

comment spam

The daily comment spam is getting worse and worse -- easily 100+ per day. It never makes it to the website because WordPress is setup so I need to approve all postings, but it is a PITA to weed
through the spam to find the occasionally real comments.

I've seen on Jeremy Zawodny's blog that in order to post, you need to type *his* first name in one of the forms. Not rocket science if a human is making the posting, but perhaps just difficult enough for the spammer's script to fail. The other nice thing is you can always change the question to something equally as trival. Say, "what the the color of the sky?" or "3141592 is my favorite number, what is my favorite number?"

Jeff Barr posted an entry on exactly how to do that in Wordpress. The only thing that was a little tricky was the change to wp-comments-post.php was on line 22 in my copy of the file. The difference because the file is a DOS format and emacs displayed it with ^M^M at the end of each line (essentially halving the
number of line Jeff saw.

The changes work for me...

IT Conversations and other interesting listening

Yesterday I listened to [Adam Curry's](http://live.curry.com/) Daily Source Code and the Dave Winer collaboration, [Trade Secrets](http://secrets.scripting.com/).

Last night poked around with [ipodder.org](http://www.ipodder.org) and downloaded all the 'stock' content that came with the [get_enclosures.pl](http://www.ipodder.org/) script.

IT Conversations audio is a gold mine! The only problem is not having enough time to listen to everything that interests me.

I don't have an ipod (or an [Apple ipod + HP](http://h10049.www1.hp.com/music/us/en/ipod_flash.html)), but the car does have a CD player, so get_enclosures may need to be hacked to burn a daily CD.

Yet Another DailyDelicious hack for WordPress

I wanted a nice simple way to mirror my daily bookmarks that I've added to [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us) into [WordPress](http://www.wordpress.org)

Stephen Eyre's [dailydelicious](http://www.dot-totally.co.uk/dailydelicious.txt) was close, but
not exactly they way I wanted it. He used the RSS feed, but that doesn't give a good daily cutoff.

So, I present Yet Another Daily Delicious php script: [yadd.php](http://www.nozell.com/marc/blog/data/yadd-1.0.TXT).

It asks for just today's bookmarks using the published api, parses the XML, generates nicely formatted HTML and creates a WordPress entry.

Here is the writeup from the code:
- - -


This is yadd.php V1.0 by Marc Nozell (marc@nozell.com) based on
Stephen Eyre's dailydelicious
(http://www.dot-totally.co.uk/dailydelicious.txt)

See http://www.nozell.com/blog/ for the latest version of
'yet another daily delicious' (yadd.php)

USAGE:

1) Edit the section below. At the very least use your del.icio.us
username and password ($del_user/$del_password)

2) Put there file somewhere on the server where you run WordPress.

3) Arrange for this page to be hit once a day, say 11:30ish your
local time. del.icio.us seems to track UTC so depending on which
timezone you live in, some bookmarks from your yesterday may show
up. Consider using a simple cronjob that looks like this:

30 23 * * * $HOME/bin/yadd.sh

where yadd.sh looks like this:

#!/bin/bash
curl http://www.yoursite.com/yadd.php

4) In the morning edit the entry if you wish. I've tried to generate
pretty HTML so it will be simple to edit the entry.

THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND

Anyone that hits the URL for this script will cause your current
bookmarks to be dumped into WordPress. Clearly this is not
desirable.

You have some options. The easiest is to keep this URL 'secret'.
Name it something unusual and put it in a non-obvious place.
Remember that if you display your web hit stats, the url will be
exposed. A better solution to use .htaccess to limit access. If
you do that remember to update the url wget uses to include the
username/password, something like this:
curl http://someuser:somepassword@www.yoursite.com/yadd.php

Enjoy,

-marc


HOWTO migrate from blosxom to wordpress

For my piece of mind, please backup your wordpress database before proceeding. I don't want my instructions to cause you to lose data.

• Grab my mt blosxom flavor files and add to your $datadir. Right-click to save these files:
  content_type.mt date.mt, foot.mt , head.mt, story.mt


• Edit story.mt and change the line "AUTHOR: marc" to whatever
  username you will be using.


• If you are using the blosxom clicktrack plugin (00clicktrack),
  disable it.


• Visit your blosxom site using the mt flavor:
  http://yoursite.local/cgi-bin/blosxom?flav=mt and save it into a
  file named import in your wp-admin directory. You may want to try
  this: lynx -dump http://yoursite.local/cgi-bin/blosxom?flav=mt >
  wp-admin/import.txt


• Take a look at the import.txt file you just created. There are some
  things you may want to fix now rather than after the import.
  
  • Lines are wrapped at 79 characters, so long URLs or entry titles may be broken.
  
  
  • If you have a habit of using a bunch of dashes to separate text, the importer
    may get confused and think it is the beginning of a new entry. Consider replacing
    - with =
  
  
  • All the categories will be something like /nh (based on the pathname). You may want
    to remove the leading slash. You can fix this after import and well as build up
    a category hierarchy, so it isn't a big deal.
  
  
  
  



• Follow the standard WordPress instructions for import-mt.php.



• If you don't like your categories named with a leading slash (eg:
  /nh), then edit your new WordPress categories.



• Start going through your posts and clean up any messes...

Cool -- Wireless at Ford dealership

I'm waiting for my car being serviced at the local "Best" Ford dealership and they provide wireless access! Well, I don't see any signs around in the service area, there is a small wireless network.

Real sweet folks responding to a Reagan critic

Ted Rall, a left-leaning political cartoonist made a comment about Reagan "turning crispy brown" in his blog and gets a ton of poorly spelled, homophobic and just generally venomous hate mail thanks to FOX-TV viewers and Limbaugh listeners. I bet that most of those people consider themselves good christians. Sheeh.

A couple (sourceonehealth.com, picosecond.com, pge.com, apsprecision.com) are even dumb enough to send from their work email addresses! Here is the list of delightful people culled from Ted Rall's blog.

jkucinski@adelphia.net | tmeans4121@adelphia.net | rdlynch@alaska.net | USPropMgnt@aol.com | CWHARTX@aol.com | Kspearmank@aol.com | PatriciaWings30@aol.com | Rabel873@aol.com | RomanticArtwork@aol.com | SilkyErin@aol.com | SrChief5473@aol.com | info@apsprecision.com | abfbrinlee@att.net | junky54@bellsouth.net | wlcook@bellsouth.net | jreyn@charter.net | bgee181@comcast.net | warology@cox.net | Bmorganrey@cs.com | sjellis@ecentral.com | armyret@hotmail.com | carpenterathome@hotmail.com | flagators56@hotmail.com | warphead@hotmail.com | trigeek@mindspring.com | TuAl@msn.com | lwillens@msn.com | manda0131@msn.com | ONE900LAWBABE@msn.com | jeanijon@netscape.net | JJMc@pge.com | TAalberg@picosecond.com | justin@redrightandblue.com | ehagemeyer@sbcglobal.net | rjohns9797@sbcglobal.net | Tony.Reeves@sourceonehealth.com | sbrandt@starband.net | rhagen3@wi.rr.com | craigusnret@yahoo.com | damnuebay@yahoo.com | douglasice@yahoo.com | laprentke@yahoo.com | texman4268@yahoo.com

I'm just giving these nice folks some google juice if any friends or coworkers are looking for them.

Shared bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/

I've fallen in love with del.icio.us. Not only is it a nice way to have my bookmarks available from any system, it is a snap to add a new bookmark and categorize it. And it is an endless source of other URLs that other people consider worthwhile. From your bookmark page you can explore sites that others have similarly tagged.

Oh, yeah, it supports RSS feeds! Subscribe to my bookmarks , just my 'linux' related sites, everyone's everyones bookmarks or everyones linux bookmarks . Sweet use of RSS.

(Not to mention a sneaky way to point folks to the most disgusting video I've ever see on the net. Don't have any food in your mouth when you watch it! Come to think of it, you may never want to eat again.)

McDonald's "Big Mac Meal Tracks" doesn't support my PC

I just submitted a complaint at McDonald's website about their latest free music download promotion.

I really *did* want to see what DRM-encrusted music format they were using and if it would play on my computer.

Here is what I had to say:

---

I stopped at the McDonalds drive through today and specifically ordered the Big Mac meal (instead of my usual cheeseburger) because of the 'Big Mac Meal Tracks'. When I got back to my desk and tried to redeem the 'free' connect access code the connect.com site said it doesn't support my computer!

I've looked on all the McDonalds packaging and the only requirementis a 500Mhz Pentium or better and 128MB RAM or better -- nothing about the operating system that I choose to run on my PC.

I use a very modern PC running Linux.

The connect.com site doesn't mention Linux but it does say that MacOS is not supported either.

I feel duped by your 'free' music download promotion.

-marc

---

We'll see if they even bother to reply.

Photoblog

Hi Google Community Content reviewers -- this ancient post has twice been tagged as Sensitive Content. For the life of me I don't know what could be considered potentially offensive.

Since I've picked up a hp camera, the kids and I have been going crazy taking pictures. Last Saturday while killing time while the kids were at art classes, I took a random walking tour of Manchester, NH.

WPA-era statue of the America Revolutionay War Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski, formerly Marshall General of Poland. This photo was even taken on href="http://molelog.molehill.org/blox/Politics/Observances/GeneralPulaskiMemorialDay2003.writeback">the official General Pulaski Memorial Day!

Wagner Memorial in Manchester (Who is Wagner? Memorial to what?)

old fire alarm boxes

Lieberman NH Political posters

poster for the world premiere of 'Druid Gladiator Clone' a movie made in Manchester, NH (that has got to win for coolest new movie title.)

The Cadillac Motel: Rooms for a night or a life time (Rooms by the hour too?)

General autumnal pictures of New Hampshire

Take a look.

Verisign pulls a fast one -- All .COM / .NET domain names now exist

VeriSign added a wildcard A record to the .COM and .NET TLD DNS zones. The IP address returned is 64.94.110.11, which reverses to sitefinder.verisign.com.

That means when someone mistypes a URL or non-existent domain name it will go to Verisign's advertising/search engine site.

So a clearly bogus site (www.marcnozelllikesdebian989283492340.com) will resolve in DNS.

$host www.marcnozelllikesdebian989283492340.com
www.marcnozelllikesdebian989283492340.com has address 64.94.110.11
$

Catching up on blogging...

Between Wendy at tennis camp, getting ready for a customer demo at
work and attending to the kids by myself, blogging is taking a back
seat. Here are some interesting links:

• world
  conspiracy



• Spinoza Correspondence (ref: if a triangle could speak, it would say, in like manner, that God is eminently triangular, while a circle would say that the divine nature is eminently circular. Thus each would ascribe to God its own attributes, would assume itself to be like God, and look on everything else as ill-shaped. )



• JDiskReport (via
  fuzzyblog)
  



• debian and other cool wallpapers



• I'm not using "neep", an alternative
  to the courier font (mt moleblog)



• All the issues from 1841 to 1902 of the Brooklyn
  Eagle News has been digitized. A genealogist's goldmine.



• kast (konspire) is an interesting broadcasting twist on P2P/cooperative downloads (ala bittorrent). I've subscribed to a bunch of channels to see what turns up tomorrow.

Lost bookmarks

Damn! My linux laptop's /home partition filled up and galeon
couldn't save my bookmarks -- so a truncated version (all header, no
marks) is all there is. All those random blogs I've bookmarked for
later reading... Damn, damn, damn.

Maybe now is the time to use a dedicated bookmark editor like href="http://www.nongnu.org/gnobog/">gnobog to store and
categorize the bookmarks.

amifamousyet.pl script to see who links to you

You life isn't complete until you write and post an httpd log perl script.p>

Here is my offering: amifamousyet.pl

The output shows how people are coming to my site. This week's log shows:

• Someone trying to advertise something about Thailand has two html files on
  their Windows
  G: drive (g:/oversea/country/Thailand/Thailand advertise inc.htm)
  


• Searching looking for linux/debian/genealogy/random things such as:
  
  
  
  • genealogy linux KDE
  
  
  • xdmcp listen debian
  
  
  • photo scanner hp 1000 twain
  
  
  • genealogy blog
  
  
  • random images (feedster.com)
    
  
  
  • male eye candy
  
  
  • email addresses of CHIROPRACTIC DOCTORS in usa
  
  
  • sites geographically near themselves (
    geourl.org)
  
  
  • Merrimack Middle School picture
  
  
  • picture of Mastricola Middle School
  
  
  
  
  

And most of those searches are coming from google's country-specific
search engines: at, href="http://www.google.ca">ca, href="http://www.google.ch">ch, href="http://www.google.co.nz">nz, href="http://www.google.co.uk">uk, href="http://www.google.co.au">au, href="http://www.google.com.mx">mx, href="http://www.google.com.tr">tr, href="http://www.google.com.tw">tw, href="http://www.google.nl">nl, href="http://www.google.it">it, href="http://www.google.fr">fr, href="http://www.google.lv">lv.

What I assume are slime trying to advertise to me by way of my referer link
s:

• http://www.gamewinners.com/playstation2/JamesBond007AgentUnderFire.
  htm


• http://hostedcron.com


• http://nametipz.com


• http://salesdex.com

No they don't get linked to from here...

Nice Mozilla extensions

• download status at the bottom
  http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/installation.html
  



• Add search engine support (ala Galeon)
  http://easysearch.mozdev.org/installation.html
  



• Customizable preferences menubar
  http://xulplanet.mozdev.org/
  



• Checky
  http://checky.mozdev.org/Install/a>
  

"MSIE - I command you to open the CD drive!"

Right thinking people use Mozilla or other
web browsers and, of course, are safe from this
little hack. Add it to *your* website.
(View source to see the 11 lines of VBScript.)

Found this on waxy.org. Give them the cr
edit.

I've pointed my windows-lovin' coworkers to

http://www.nozell.com/marc/msiestillrules.html

Some amusing Flash videos

Apple-Style Switch Ad for Linux:
http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchlinux/

We Like the Moon: http://www.rat
hergood.com/moon_song/
Man is that a catchy song!