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Exp as in experiment

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 08:42:53 +0000

The Exp Blog is The Experiment Blog. This time I’m experimenting with a new custom WordPress theme, that’s why everything looks like crap at the moment. But fear not, it will soon be back to normal again.

When “Like” goes horribly wrong

admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:09:11 +0000

Every newspaper has by now learnt the importance of social media. With every story you get the mandatory share buttons for all the different sites. Perhaps they should use it with care though, especially Facebook’s “Like” function. It’s perhaps not a good idea to add that as default on every article. Here’s a tip I’m offering for free:

Add a check box for manually adding the Like button to your articles when they are published.

Unless of course, you want people to add a thumbs up and like “Homeless man set on fire“.

Suspicious Message!

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:26:02 +0000

I live an exciting life. I get sent very suspicious stuff. Well, it was the first time today that avast! gave me this message:

“Very suspicious extension of attachment”

I don’t know why, but it made me giggle a bit. Perhaps I need more sleep.

On a slightly related note, McAfee has turned into a virus.

Botched McAfee update shutting down corporate XP machines worldwide.

The Exp Blog goes Dofollow

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:38:48 +0000

Good comments should be rewarded. That’s why The Exp Blog now lets comment authors get nice dofollow links to their homepages.

This does however not mean that spam comments will be accepted, but if you write a comment related to the post your commenting (eventhough your actual link may be unrelated) you’ll get your comment approve.

server.aaaaa.com – What is it doing?

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:25:22 +0000

While looking through the logs for one of my sites I stumbled across lots of visits from the host server.aaaaa.com which seems to be crawling around my site. Nice bots and crawlers always have the decency of at least supply something as the HTTP_USER_AGENT, quite often with a URL to a nice little page where webmasters can be assured that their bot is only up to good stuff. The server.aaaaa.com, however, has the HTTP_USER_AGENT all blank.

That surely raises suspicion in me that it’s up to no good. A spam bot, perhaps?

www.aaaaa.com and aaaaa.com takes you to a domain parking place. That doesn’t really strike me as a good sign either.

The whois records show that the website is registered in Seoul, South Korea.

Has anyone any idea what server.aaaaa.com is up to?

Off course, it’s quite easy to just ban it from the site if you’re nervous about it, but I’m more curious, than nervous.

If you have any info, please comment on this page.