failing like never before

28May/070

Closing site?

I'm thinking about closing down the blog hosting service, generally because it really really sucks. Granted, I had every intention of maintaining this site even after school was out, but now I don't think this could be a viable enterprise. I simply do not have any features, or options that any users would find very attractive.

If I am able to bring this site up to a deccent standard, then I may consider keeping it, as it is I going to try my hand at something else. So all you people that use my site for blogging (that would be zero) and those of you that actually read my blog (still zero), you'll have to move your crap somewhere else.

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23May/070

Referrer Spam…

Amazingly enough, my puny site that draws a few vistors per day, has suffered the attacks of a spammer. Some bugger named Andrei Kislizin, lives in the Ukraine, has been putting up links in comments to sites that sell "viagrax" and crap like that. I ran his IP through whois and blocked all his IP addresses, weeee.

Here's the data that whois gave me:

inetnum: 85.255.112.0 - 85.255.127.255
netname: inhoster
descr: Inhoster hosting company
descr: OOO Inhoster, Poltavskij Shliax 24, Kharkiv, 61000, Ukraine
remarks: -----------------------------------
remarks: Abuse notifications to:
remarks: Network problems to:
remarks: Peering requests to:
remarks: -----------------------------------
country: UA
org: ORG-EST1-RIPE
admin-c: AK4026-RIPE
tech-c: AK4026-RIPE
tech-c: FWHS1-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PI
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-PI-MNT
mnt-lower: RIPE-NCC-HM-PI-MNT
mnt-by: RECIT-MNT
mnt-routes: RECIT-MNT
mnt-domains: RECIT-MNT
mnt-by: DAV-MNT
mnt-routes: DAV-MNT
mnt-domains: DAV-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

organisation: ORG-EST1-RIPE
org-name: INHOSTER
org-type: OTHER
remarks: *************************************
remarks: * Abuse contacts: *
remarks: *************************************
address: OOO Inhoster
address: Poltavskij Shliax 24, Xarkov,
address: 61000, Ukraine
phone: +38 066 4633621
e-mail:
admin-c: AK4026-RIPE
tech-c: AK4026-RIPE
mnt-ref: DAV-MNT
mnt-by: DAV-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

person: Andrei Kislizin
address: OOO Inhoster,
address: ul.Antonova 5, Kiev,
address: 03186, Ukraine
phone: +38 044 2404332
nic-hdl: AK4026-RIPE
source: RIPE # Filtered

person: Fast Web Hosting Support
address: 01110, Ukraine, Kiev, 20 , Solomenskaya street. room 201.
address: UA
phone: +35 79 91 17 759
e-mail:
nic-hdl: FWHS1-RIPE
source: RIPE # Filtered

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14May/070

Code Updates, 14 May ’07

- CSS Fixes:

- Fixed a problem where the text areas were extending too far when using Windows operating system. Although this problem has been fixed in Windows, I now have a problem while running Ubuntu and Fedora Core linux, so I assume that the problem is due to font size. If you're running linux, you may notice that the text areas are a little smaller then the box gray box that encloses them

- Fixed and rearranged some of the options in the text area toolbar. Now it consumes only two lines, instead of three.

- Fixed a problem where Internet Explorer was not rendering the CSS wrong. Before, it was taking the left-hand menu thing and sticking it all the way at the bottom of the page. There was never a problem while using Konqueror, Opera, or Firefox. This problem still seems to persist with IE5 for some reason.

- Things To Do:

- Adding help and tutorial type stuff to make the site more user friendly.

- Improving the home/index page and making it more functional, perhaps adding a 'featured blog.'

- Adding a function to search users and blogs and list them.

- Adding a better form of sorting pictures in the gallery (still a little hazy 'bout what I'm going to do, but I will do something to it).

- A way for people to upload their own stylesheets and make them avaliable to others.

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5May/070

econ

I used to think P.E. was the dumbest, most pointless class in existance. Then I took gov. and I was introduced to a whole new world of boredom. Now I'm taking econ. and its quite possibly the most pointless class in existance.

"All right kiddies, today you're going to go to the library and research acid rain, smog, and air pollution! Because, as we all know, air pollution is intrinsically related to economics!"

It is, to say the least, a whole new world of stupid. Only three more weeks of school left...

Tagged as: econ, economics, hate No Comments

1May/070

more stocksquest

Contest Rankings
Rank		Name	Total Value	% Gain	# Trades
1.	View	chi	85519.44	755.19	80
2.	View	michael mendoza	24866.90	148.67	40
3.	View	Ben Driscoll	15778.95	57.79	78
4.	View	Bharath Ganesh	14174.96	41.75	31
5.	View	Travis Coots	13646.89	36.47	90
6.	View	Sarah Czarnecki	12800.59	28.01	39
7.	View	john ward	11793.03	17.93	59
8.	View	Melissa Gray	11419.12	14.19	13
9.	View	Bob Wright	11285.18	12.85	17
10.	View	daniel ngui	10956.86	9.57	109
11.	View	Chris Meyers	10893.37	8.93	22
12.	View	kortney slater	10850.86	8.51	114
13.	View	Elizabeth Allen	10746.80	7.47	48
14.	View	Josh Ruff	10577.27	5.77	26
15.	View	cody goodridge	10572.36	5.72	18
16.	View	Zack Conley	10434.36	4.34	40
17.	View	Lauren Sedgwick	10404.00	4.04	19
18.	View	Lindsay Dworman	10395.54	3.96	32
19.	View	Claire Campo	10361.92	3.62	20
20.	View	audrey gandy	10344.96	3.45	13
21.	View	ChristyAnna Zimmerman	10330.15	3.30	17
22.	View	Chris Kwee	10325.39	3.25	26
23.	View	Matt Bogert	10188.31	1.88	30
24.	View	joe sowa	10184.25	1.84	22
25.	View	Lauren Bernau	10175.82	1.76	46
26.	View	Anthony Wiedrick	10157.54	1.58	31
27.	View	Christina Davis	10149.64	1.50	19
28.	View	Danielle Brill	10130.03	1.30	18
29.	View	Lucas Clark	10104.90	1.05	18
30.	View	Joanna Gross	10061.50	0.61	61
31.	View	Elliott Hull	10025.74	0.26	0
32.	View	danny ngui	10025.19	0.25	0
33.	View	david umina	10025.19	0.25	0
34.	View	pete tate	10025.19	0.25	0
35.	View	Vanessa Miranda	10019.53	0.20	1
36.	View	robyn lashley	10006.15	0.06	64
37.	View	Kevin Schumm	9990.90	-0.09	35
38.	View	Elizabeth Guza	9986.93	-0.13	25
39.	View	Emily Christensen	9959.17	-0.41	31
40.	View	Erica Wilens	9931.59	-0.68	8
41.	View	John Bartel	9921.46	-0.79	30
42.	View	Claire Heller	9915.74	-0.84	7
43.	View	Ashley Garrett	9913.15	-0.87	29
44.	View	nick thomy	9904.98	-0.95	15
45.	View	Meredith Price	9899.61	-1.00	26
46.	View	Camden Ash	9898.92	-1.01	38
47.	View	Elliott Hull	9888.55	-1.11	50
48.	View	Donell Cooper Jr	9847.79	-1.52	33
49.	View	Erika Caietti	9832.24	-1.68	32
50.	View	Ivan Otsuka	9828.00	-1.72	40
51.	View	Kaity Whittaker	9826.60	-1.73	48
52.	View	Alexandra Broyles	9814.06	-1.86	37
53.	View	Kaity Tully	9805.28	-1.95	41
54.	View	Claire Hellar	9800.44	-2.00	22
55.	View	Matthew Yost	9785.64	-2.14	39
56.	View	Eric Presnall	9779.08	-2.21	47
57.	View	Mike Terranova	9774.95	-2.25	24
58.	View	Emily Alpert	9773.82	-2.26	24
59.	View	Brandon Davis	9768.21	-2.32	30
60.	View	Shane Morosky	9765.42	-2.35	19
61.	View	Caitlyn Huber	9762.49	-2.38	37
62.	View	Ivan Otsuka	9749.97	-2.50	42
63.	View	Matt Hanson	9737.70	-2.62	25
64.	View	pete tate	9724.96	-2.75	18
65.	View	Sara Miller	9723.98	-2.76	16
66.	View	Dana Mangseth	9718.22	-2.82	22
67.	View	alex anticevich	9698.52	-3.01	29
68.	View	Dana Stoller	9651.62	-3.48	14
69.	View	Amanda Gulyas	9615.35	-3.85	38
70.	View	Matt Anderson	9601.48	-3.99	22
71.	View	Shannon Lee	9597.80	-4.02	57
72.	View	Christina Shuler	9584.83	-4.15	23
73.	View	maziar salimi	9583.28	-4.17	23
74.	View	Jacob Ricks	9548.03	-4.52	36
75.	View	Kayla Schureman	9529.86	-4.70	38
76.	View	Ashley Keefer	9516.27	-4.84	55
77.	View	Jason Shaffer	9487.65	-5.12	20
78.	View	Wesley Birrer	9483.96	-5.16	32
79.	View	Matt Borasi	9458.34	-5.42	55
80.	View	Anna Wehr	9413.00	-5.87	42
81.	View	Eric Nakano	9400.19	-6.00	22
82.	View	Matthew DOoge	9398.44	-6.02	33
83.	View	Jarad George	9382.81	-6.17	21
84.	View	Ian Privitt	9371.17	-6.29	10
85.	View	Jen Smit	9348.65	-6.51	24
86.	View	alyssa beatty	9347.01	-6.53	19
87.	View	Jordan Embree	9320.53	-6.79	32
88.	View	Matthew Yunge	9315.69	-6.84	21
89.	View	Jonathan Manzi	9300.21	-7.00	37
90.	View	maninder singh	9291.00	-7.09	118
91.	View	David Umina	9288.12	-7.12	16
92.	View	Heather Rains	9236.87	-7.63	52
93.	View	Elhom Mirmazaheri	9192.27	-8.08	33
94.	View	Brent Hottman	9153.37	-8.47	20
95.	View	Jen Barisone	8906.85	-10.93	74
96.	View	Brittney Heil	8874.16	-11.26	74
97.	View	kevin trommer	8857.42	-11.43	52
98.	View	Brett Armstrong	8788.73	-12.11	25
99.	View	Erik Gregory	8761.83	-12.38	26
100.	View	12 1	8385.14	-16.15	1
101.	View	taylore collie	7714.22	-22.86	124