Rick's World

In the last 24 hours, I've received a flood of over 150 comment spams from the same IP address: 62.33.12.104 This IP appears to be coming from somewhere in Russia. All the spams were advertisements for various prescription drugs. I have banned… more »

I've used eBay and Paypal for many years now. So has my family. One of the ongoing problems lately is phishing attacks that steal your eBay and/or Paypal accounts. These phishing attacks come by way of a forged email that looks like it's from eBay. I… more »

Above you see a screenshot of a graph from my web site statistics. This graph shows the number of hits to my site on a daily basis over the last several months. As you can see, most of the time, the number of hits is pretty consistent. There have been… more »

Hmm, it seems like I've become an 'image blogger' without ever intending to. I regularly study my site statistics. My blogging software provides one set of stats, and my web host provides a different set of stats. I also use Google Analytics, which… more »

In one of my earlier blogs, I commented that I was seeing a strange user agent in my stats. This user agent went by the name of 'Morfeus Fucking Scanner'. This name obviously caught my eye. I seriously doubt a legitimate user agent would be called tha… more »

I've been studying my site statistics a lot lately. As a web site owner, it's something that is important to do. I'm always interested in seeing how many people are visiting my site, what pages they are viewing, etc. One thing I've been noticing latel… more »

I wrote previously about how other sites were linking directly to the images on my site from their pages without my permission. Yeah, I suppose I could just delete the images, but I figured I'd get a little free advertising out of it. I just updated al… more »

I mentioned briefly in my previous blog that I need to do something to mark my images with my website URL, so that when people link directly to my images, it shows my web site on the image. Credit were credit is due. The way you do this is by putting a… more »

Hmm, I was just looking through my web site logs and I noticed that the images from my Spiderman 3 review are being directly linked to in a bunch of different sites without any credit to my site. I think people are finding these images through Google Im… more »

Today I upgraded the blog to the newest version of the blogging software. Normally I don't like upgrading to beta software, but the spam has been so bad lately, I decided to upgrade anyway in the hopes that it would help reduce this spam. I'm still ex… more »