Laurabelle’s Blog

Hey look everybody, a new version of Ook! has been released - it's Ook# .NET.

Things I have learned today: Even when not in doubt, always ask the librarian. S/he knows things that you didn't even think to ask about. Today I went to the music library for a certain book on CDs. When checking it out, I said I didn't think it had what I was really looking for, which [...]

Recently I noticed an odd user-agent in my access logs: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt; DTS Agent This appears to be an address harvester called Beijing Express E-mail Address Extractor. I've got 3-5 hits per day from this user-agent, from various IP addresses. The interesting thing is that this bot only ever requests the root [...]

You may be interested to know that my former (now missing) origins.shtml page is the first hit on Ask Jeeves for the query why are personal home pages are better. I mean, wow. Of all the personal pages they could have chosen, why that one?
I think this is enough reason not to use Ask Jeeves. [...]