Wow, it’s that time of year, the time when we all give our once annual pat on the back to the wonderful staff that keep the networks, computers, laptops, and servers up and running. System Administration Appreciation Day . So, Mike, this one’s for you.

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I recently entered a contest to come up with phrases that describe blogging. I didn’t win, but here are my entries:

• I blog therefore I am
• Blog! You’re it!
• Think outside the blog.
• Parlez vous blog?
• Usted habla el blog?
• I’m bilingual, I speak English and Blog
• I read more blogs before 6am than most people read all day
• got blog?
• front: My blog never mentions Paris Hilton
  back: Except for this post
• My other website is a blog too
• Ask me about my long tail
• Ask me about my contribution to the net’s long tail
• You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be blogged.

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While looking through my web server logs, I see a fair number of web spiders that are making a very bad assumption: only the http is linked from a web page. The obvious counter example is https:. A web spider needs to only follow links that are http://. You can’t simply assume if the first 5 characters of a link aren’t http: it is a page link. I see lots of errors in my server log asking for pages like /blog/2004/https://www.annualcreditreport.com.

I was looking through the blogs for the Presidential Campaigns. It’s interesting that George Bush’s blog does not allow people to post comments, while John Kerry’s blog does allow public comments. (Ralph Nader does not have a blog.) I don’t know if the comments on Kerry’s blog are from “real” people or not, but based on a few of the comments I looked at, there isn’t much editing of them going on.

The Electoral Vote Predictor tracks the electoral vote state by state for the 2004 Presidential Elections. Very cool project.

The Washington Apple Pi is a Washington DC user group for Apple computers. They’ve posted details about
their site re-design. Very interesting article.

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