Laurabelle’s Blog

Spammers have been sprinkling my access logs with referrer spam. I'm not in the habit of checking my webstats obsessively, but lately there are a couple of broken bots that have been generating 404's a lot and sending me emails about it. (My 404 error page is a script that emails me when there's an [...]

I recently read Terry Pratchett's newest Discworld novel, Going Postal. The whole book was very good, but even if it wasn't, it all would have been worth it for one single line. An omniscope is one of the most powerful instruments known to magic, and therefore one of the most useless. It can see everything, with ease. [...]