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Speaking of the DOJ

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Rather than preparing to prosecute anti-gun politicians and organizations someone at the DOJ just visited my blog:

Domain Name   usdoj.gov ? (United States Government)
IP Address   149.101.1.# (US Dept of Justice)
ISP   US Dept of Justice
Location  
Continent  :  North America
Country  :  United States  (Facts)
State  :  Maryland
City  :  Potomac
Lat/Long  :  39.023, -77.1993 (Map)
Distance  :  2,059 miles
Language   English (United States)
en-us
Operating System   Microsoft WinXP
Browser   Internet Explorer 6.0
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; DI60SP1001; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1)
Javascript   version 1.3
Monitor  

Resolution  :  1024 x 768
Color Depth  :  16 bits

Time of Visit   Nov 20 2007 9:47:26 am
Last Page View   Nov 20 2007 9:47:26 am
Visit Length   0 seconds
Page Views   1
Referring URL http://search.msn.co…ze%3Alarge&FORM=SZIR
Search Engine search.msn.com
Search Words cake imagesize:large
Visit Entry Page   http://blog.joehuffm…date,2006-06-25.aspx
Visit Exit Page   http://blog.joehuffm…date,2006-06-25.aspx
Out Click    
Time Zone   UTC-5:00
Visitor’s Time   Nov 20 2007 12:47:26 pm
Visit Number   212,525

I wonder if they were really looking for the vagina cake. The thumbnail they clicked on here should have made it clear what they were going to end up with when they came to visit.

Aliens or replicators?

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You just have to wonder what they want a Saiga 12 gauge for. Is it Aliens? Or maybe a Predator? My bet is it’s for replicators. A shotgun worked quite well on those bugs.

Domain Name   nasa.gov ? (United States Government)
IP Address   128.158.228.# (National Aeronautics and Space Association)
ISP   National Aeronautics and Space Association
Location  
Continent  :  North America
Country  :  United States  (Facts)
State  :  Alabama
City  :  Huntsville
Lat/Long  :  34.6325, -86.6527 (Map)
Distance  :  1,780 miles
Language   English (United States)
en-us
Operating System   Microsoft WinXP
Browser   Internet Explorer 6.0
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Javascript   version 1.3
Monitor  

Resolution  :  1024 x 768
Color Depth  :  32 bits

Time of Visit   Nov 15 2007 2:17:08 pm
Last Page View   Nov 15 2007 2:17:08 pm
Visit Length   0 seconds
Page Views   1
Referring URL http://www.google.co…GLD:en&start=20&sa=N
Search Engine google.com
Search Words saiga 12
Visit Entry Page   http://blog.joehuffm…/GunPornSaiga12.aspx
Visit Exit Page   http://blog.joehuffm…/GunPornSaiga12.aspx
Out Click    
Time Zone   UTC-6:00
Visitor’s Time   Nov 15 2007 4:17:08 pm
Visit Number   210,920

This won’t last long

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The TLB ecosystem must be going through some global climate change or something. I doubt my blog will remain a Marauding Marsupial very long:

Site down

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Yes, my site was down for a while (as was Ry’s). Our webhosting provider had to do some unscheduled maintaince.

I love the Internet

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If you know what you are doing you can know so much more about people than they would like you to know. For example, it appears Snuffy may have come visiting me this evening. My QOTD by him shows up in the top 10 when doing a Google search for “rev michael pfleger”:

 

Domain Name   comcast.net ? (Network)
IP Address   67.176.196.# (Comcast Cable)
ISP   Comcast Cable
Location  
Continent  :  North America
Country  :  United States  (Facts)
State  :  Illinois
City  :  Chicago
Lat/Long  :  41.8675, -87.6744 (Map)
Distance  :  1,478 miles
Language   English (U.S.)
en-us
Operating System   Microsoft WinXP
Browser   Internet Explorer 7.0
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Comcast Install 1.0)
Javascript   version 1.3
Monitor  

Resolution  :  1024 x 768
Color Depth  :  32 bits

Time of Visit   Oct 29 2007 9:37:55 pm
Last Page View   Oct 29 2007 9:39:24 pm
Visit Length   1 minute 29 seconds
Page Views   3
Referring URL http://www.google.co…ichael pfleger&hl=en
Search Engine google.com
Search Words rev michael pfleger
Visit Entry Page   https://blog.joehuffman.org/2007/10/28/quote-of-the-day-rev-michael-pfleger/
Visit Exit Page   https://blog.joehuffman.org/2007/10/28/quote-of-the-day-rev-michael-pfleger/
Out Click   With no permit, activists rally at gun shop again
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-gunshoprally_28oct28,1,3704808.story
Time Zone   UTC-5:00
Visitor’s Time   Oct 30 2007 12:37:55 am
Visit Number   205,510

Gun Blogger Rendezvous itinerary update

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I had planned to leave the Seattle area at about 9:00 AM on Thursday and mistakenly made our airplane reservations for 9:00 PM. Hence Barb and I won’t be arriving at GBR until nearly midnight. Oh well, I’m sure people will manage to get by without us for a few extra hours.

Kevin will be on his way to GBR in just a few hours.

Privacy policy

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For reasons that must be confidential for the moment I have now posted a privacy policy for the Boomershoot.org and JoeHuffman.org domains.

Alternative to Google for search

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In case you haven’t tested it out recently (as in the last day) Microsoft’s search engine was just updated and for the first time has search results on par with Google. I know the test methodology for this claim but I’m not sure I’m at liberty to reveal it but I am of the opinion they did a good job measuring this and that the claim is accurate. “On par” is not good enough to win and I expect MS will pull ahead of Google in the near future.

Having an alternative to the anti-gun owner bigots at Google is important and now you don’t have to compromise on search results. Now if I can just get the message to the right person to get MS to give us an alternative to AdSense so I can drop the Google ads in the right margin of this blog.

The bigots at Google

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Uncle reports having problems with Google being bigots. I had similar problems a while back and had similarly unsatisfactory results. I really wish there were a good alternative to getting advertising on my blog. I don’t get a lot from them, currently about $0.80/day, but it pays my Internet related bills.

Here is the story of my experience with Google:

VPC stops by to visit

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Nice of them to stop by.

Domain Name   e-nt.net ? (Network)
IP Address   66.7.41.# (Violence Policy Center)
ISP   eLink Communications
Location  
Continent  :  North America
Country  :  United States  (Facts)
State  :  District of Columbia
City  :  Washington
Lat/Long  :  38.9068, -77.0427 (Map)
Distance  :  2,071 miles
Language   English (U.S.)
en-us
Operating System   Microsoft WinXP
Browser   Internet Explorer 7.0
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Javascript   version 1.3
Monitor  

Resolution  :  1024 x 768
Color Depth  :  32 bits

Time of Visit   Sep 24 2007 2:34:51 pm
Last Page View   Sep 24 2007 2:41:17 pm
Visit Length   6 minutes 26 seconds
Page Views   3
Referring URL http://blogsearch.go… Center%22&scoring=d
Search Engine blogsearch.google.com
Search Words “violence policy center”
Visit Entry Page   https://blog.joehuffman.org/2007/09/20/quote-of-the-day-cam-edwards/
Visit Exit Page   https://blog.joehuffman.org/2006/10/
Out Click   What A Tangled Web They Weave
http://www.camedwards.com/2007/09/19/what-a-tangled-web-they-weave/
Time Zone   UTC-5:00
Visitor’s Time   Sep 24 2007 5:34:51 pm
Visit Number   194,160

Since I now that I know their IP address I also went looking through old log files for them. They visited in March after doing a blog search for “Josh Sugarman”. Then they were here a couple times in August looking for stuff about Larry Craig. For more details see: VPCVisits.xls (28 KB)

Comment problems

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People have been having problems with the anti-spam feature in comments. I’ve disabled the Captcha and enable some other things in an attempt to mitigate the resultant spam. I need to dig into the source code and fix the Captcha and other problems but I just haven’t gotten around to it.

If you have been frustrated by the comment issues please try again. I really like getting comments and don’t want you to give up on it.

I wonder what Battelle Columbus is up to

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The jerks at PNNL I used to work for report back to Battelle headquarters in Columbus Ohio. It appears I just had a visit from them:

Domain Name   rr.com ? (Commercial)
IP Address   65.24.154.# (Road Runner)
ISP   Road Runner
Location  
Continent  :  North America
Country  :  United States  (Facts)
State  :  Ohio
City  :  Columbus
Lat/Long  :  39.9968, -82.9882 (Map)
Distance  :  1,755 miles
Language   English (U.S.)
en-us
Operating System   Microsoft WinNT
Browser   Internet Explorer 7.0
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; Media Center PC 5.0)
Javascript   version 1.3
Monitor  

Resolution  :  1280 x 800
Color Depth  :  16 bits

Time of Visit   Sep 22 2007 12:53:04 pm
Last Page View   Sep 22 2007 1:10:13 pm
Visit Length   17 minutes 9 seconds
Page Views   9
Referring URL http://search.live.c…uffman.org&FORM=USNO
Search Engine search.live.com
Search Words blog.joehuffman.org
Visit Entry Page   http://cc.msnscache….lang=en-US&FORM=CVRE
Visit Exit Page   http://blog.joehuffm…w,category,PNNL.aspx
Out Click   a story which was published today
http://www.tri-cityh…58717p-9075291c.html
Time Zone   UTC-5:00
Visitor’s Time   Sep 22 2007 3:53:04 pm
Visit Number   193,489

Robyn Ringler stopped by again

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Domain Name   verizon.net ? (Network)
IP Address   68.236.146.# (Verizon)
ISP   Verizon Internet Services
Location  
Continent  :  North America
Country  :  United States  (Facts)
State  :  New York
City  :  Rexford
Lat/Long  :  42.843, -73.8583 (Map)
Distance  :  2,105 miles
Language   English (U.S.)
en-us
Operating System   Microsoft WinME
Browser   Internet Explorer 5.5
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
Javascript   version 1.3
Monitor  

Resolution  :  800 x 600
Color Depth  :  16 bits

Time of Visit   Sep 20 2007 5:57:21 pm
Last Page View   Sep 20 2007 5:57:21 pm
Visit Length   0 seconds
Page Views   1
Referring URL http://blogs.timesun…/underfire/wp-admin/
Visit Entry Page   http://blog.joehuffm…ppedByAFewTimes.aspx
Visit Exit Page   http://blog.joehuffm…ppedByAFewTimes.aspx
Out Click    
Time Zone   UTC-5:00
Visitor’s Time   Sep 20 2007 8:57:21 pm
Visit Number   193,023

 Previous visits were documented here.

Blog maintenance

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I did some maintenance on my blog this morning. The live comment viewer is working now, or at least it was the last couple times I tried it. I can now edit posts and have the changes “stick” which they hadn’t been doing for the last couple weeks. Very annoying that last one. In order to edit a post I had to copy the .XML file for that day’s entry to my personal computer, using my “geek brain” edit the .XML post which was encoded within the day entry file, then copy the file back up to the blog server.

While I was messing around with it I thought I might as well update the blogroll to better reflect reality. There are other blogs I read fairly frequently but I only put blogs that I read every post nearly every day on my blogroll. I’m sort of a purist I guess. No offense to others that I read frequently but don’t have on the list. I just don’t have time for everyone that I would like to read and/or that link to me. If you link to me in a post I will read your post and I will monitor the comments to it for a while. And if you put me on your blogroll I will check you out for a few days but it’s going to be very rare that I am going to link to you just because you linked to me.

I know I messed up some RSS feeders as things were changing–at least mine was affected. Sorry about that.

Gun Blogger Rendezvous itinerary

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I finally stopped procrastinating and made our travel and hotel reservations for the Rendezvous. I’ll get our registration in to Mr. Completely later today.

We are flying in so that means even if the range would allow “Joe’s special recipe” for reactive targets I’d be blocked by the TSA from bringing my chemistry set.

Barb and I will arrive in Reno on Thursday morning and leave Sunday evening. I’m hoping to see the same participants as last year as well a bunch of new ones. Will you be there?

I have no idea what they were looking for

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Someone in Greece was looking for “boomershoot survialist shop”? Whatever… they ended up finding my blog.

Your guess is as good as mine.

Domain Name   (Unknown) 
IP Address   213.249.57.# (Mega TV, Tiletipos)
ISP   PANAFON S.A.
Location  
Continent  :  Europe
Country  :  Greece  (Facts)
State/Region  :  Attiki
City  :  Athens
Lat/Long  :  37.9833, 23.7333 (Map)
Distance  :  6,097 miles
Language   Greek
el
Operating System   Microsoft Win2000
Browser   Internet Explorer 6.0
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Javascript   version 1.3
Monitor  

Resolution  :  1280 x 1024
Color Depth  :  32 bits

Time of Visit   Aug 27 2007 10:16:29 am
Last Page View   Aug 27 2007 10:16:29 am
Visit Length   0 seconds
Page Views   1
Referring URL http://www.google.gr…rvivalist shop&meta=
Search Engine google.gr
Search Words boomershoot survivalist shop
Visit Entry Page   https://blog.joehuffman.org/category/boomershoot/
Visit Exit Page   https://blog.joehuffman.org/category/boomershoot/
Out Click    
Time Zone   UTC+2:00
Visitor’s Time   Aug 27 2007 8:16:29 pm
Visit Number   185,007

Interesting–just rambling mostly

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Heather and Jon were married twenty six years and four days after Barb and I. Heather is the origin of the word “dooced“. She now blogs full time successfully enough to support her husband and child.

This week I received my first performance review after going to work full time at Microsoft last year. I was shocked to discover the size of the bonuses and stock grants (James called me up immediately after his review and reported similar shock, “That is a lot of money!”). Even counting the lost pay after being dooced myself (I still need to finish writing up the full story–lots of interesting details about what really happened) in about four or five years I will be financially better off that I would have been had I stayed at the lab. I would rather do the work (for the most part) I was doing at the lab but financially I can’t complain.

New version of dasBlog

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I’ve installed a new version of the blogging software. It seems to have fixed the problem I had with comments bringing down the server CPU. It runs just fine on my 32-bit Vista Ultimate home machines. But there are some problems on my website and on my 64-bit Vista machine.

Patience please…

Update: The most serious problems are solved! I can now log in and create/edit posts on the site rather than editing them on my local machine then uploading the new entry to the website, then “touching” web.config to reload the content. The comment preview still doesn’t work and the comment box overlaps the right panel if your screen width isn’t wide enough. But it’s now usable.

Gun Blogger Rendezvous

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Barb and I will be at the Gun Blogger Rendezvous in October at Reno. We haven’t made our reservations yet but the vacation time is scheduled and currently the plan doesn’t have any obstacles.

This year I’m going to bring what I call my spud gun. It actually shoots 210 grain Berger VLDs at 2915 fps rather than Idaho’s famous vegetables. It was custom made by a gunsmith in Idaho and a friend of mine figured it couldn’t be as a good a rifle as the one made by Arnold Arms north of Seattle. I started referring to my rifle as my spud gun just to neutralize his criticism of my choice of gunsmiths. I could have the last laugh by reminding my friend of the tens of thousands of dollars he had invested in Arnold Arms–which he lost when they went bankrupt–but that would be cruel.

Posts that get attention

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Interesting. My most recent post about the TSA is getting more and more attention. Most recent is this mention in a forum:

If you really need to believe that you’re safe when you get on a plane, don’t read the above. If you want to realize what a bullshit fantasy “safety” through a “security” agency is, then take the red pill and click the link.

I like how he expressed that. Very nice. I remember one time not too long after 9/11 Ry was having Thanksgiving dinner with us and our extended family at my parent’s place. Somehow Ry (software tester extraordinaire–finding flaws is what software testers do) and I started talking about all the vulnerabilities in our country that someone could use to cause us great damage. We were rattling things off so fast that someone had to raise their voice to get in a command to “STOP”. People didn’t want to know. They wanted ignorance. This is baffling to me, but whatever.

Anyway, on to what makes particular posts interesting…

Uncle and Existing Thing (via Uncle) linked to my TSA post. I was thinking Uncle would link to it when I made it. He links to almost anything of mine that is a little out of the ordinary (honest, I have only made him one offer for a free position at Boomershoot–which he hasn’t acted upon. I don’t think that constitutes bribery). Thinking about what makes a post interesting I made the connection to the recent career advice from Scott Adams (via Kim). I have expertise in more than one field and combining that expertise with a somewhat rare political viewpoint (pro-freedom) increases my “value”. In this case it was my expertise in explosives and (computer) security.

I keep wondering if there is a way to combine all my hobbies in an interesting way. But at least for me guns, explosives, and sex just don’t mix.