Quinn

Well, as the title says, my blog is getting spammed. My blog is not run by the world famous blog tool like WordPress or Movable Type. This is only a hand made version of it, which is built by me. I thought nobody would really bother to send spamming POST requests just to spam this blog. I was wrong. Someone out there has invested time to do such a thing. Oh, WTF, wasting time of life.. Doesn't this person have something better things do?

I made a few changes lately. So, it no longer accept just POST requests. You have to actually visit the page, sending a GET request and establish the session with COOKIE enabled, then this blog accepts a POST request for a comment. I also blocked some string patterns that they use, which are obviousely not very common to usual comment posts.

I suppose this is not enough yet. I am stiil getting some spamming going through the filter. But it seems successfully eliminating some of them.

What I don't understand is that I am getting spammed only for a single post page Teacher Me? from a verious IP addresses. I don't know what kind of method is used to do such a task. It looks like human inputs but not totally. I probably should have been more careful in the first place. But this is just making me a better web developer, so thanks whoever this person is..

Yes, I am so slow at writing posts for this blog. Despite of my laziness, I am so far doing pretty good as a freelance web developer this year. And I even finished a book, which I barely do.

Well, this is a thin book, easy to read, and particulary in my interest! This book showed me how to make good decisions for designing websites, especially in the view from users. I think it is well described in the book's title. It talks about web usability. Things are mostly I knew from experiences, but I was amazed how stuff are articlated in words. I never can do that. It was fun reading this book. After all, I am looking forward myself doing better jobs for coming projects!

Today, I encountered a weird page in Apple (Japan) website. There was "hi" right above the primary link buttons. It was so funny to me, and started wondering what caused this. I checked the page source and there was "hi" before the Document Type Declaration. I noticed this is not likely to be anybody's intention. So, I captured the screenshot to share this with other people. I think this is just a small mistake that all people can laugh about, even including the people who are in the web team. As writing this post, I began to think nobody would't care about this. I think I'm just enjoying myself, finding a tiny mistake made by a big guy, and saying it to the world "I found it!" What would you say?

Apple - 15 インチ PowerBook G4 ディスプレイリペアエクステンションプログラム

Today, I came across with Safari Tidy plugin. Then, I also found out about HTML VALIDATOR for Mozilla browsers as well. I was just happy to see my page had no erros nor warnings found with these tools. So, here I am. I just want to bring it up to make myself look good! I've been so busy for my freelance jobs. It seems it's been a long time not upgrading this blog's system. I still think small pieces of the system can be better than they are now. Even though I always had some feelings of guilty about it, this "0 errors / 0 warnings" was such a gift to me today. Well, I know just validating HTML is not the absolute thing, but I still think it's a good start.

I also had recieved a nice compliment saying he liked my design of this blog and the tree part. He was also wondering about getting some feedback on his website, eLanguageSchool.net. As far as I can tell from browsing some pages on the website, I think it is a very resourceful and helpful for many people.

I also came across with this website, 世論 What Japan Thinks the other day. I suppose this website might be very interesting to whoever looking for business opportunities in Japan or someone who are simply interested in Japanese culture.

Quinn's Photo [Zooomr]