General

Little monster

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I have no idea how he does it, but Cody somehow figured out how to open the drawers in my kitchen. Every time I walk into the kitchen I find one or more open drawers, which I close. If I happen to catch him in the kitchen, he’s always sitting in a corner looking innocent.

Remote DB administration

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I just installed phpMyAdmin on my machine here and configured it to administer the databases for MacMegasite & WorldBeatPlanet, which is a lot easier than going to BounceWeb’s control panel to access it.

Lots of work today

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I got my HTTP request class pretty much working. I can now send a valid HTTP request and strip the headers off the reply, although I haven’t been able to complete a successful call with it.

I just rewrote the MacMegasite Store to use a table in the database for the products instead of a hard-coded HTML file.

iCal Bug

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Has anyone else seen a problem with iCal not updating the date in the dock icon if you have it running for a few days? Right now it’s showing 17 even though today’s the 18th, yet the today button in the program goes to the right day. Sometimes it will update again the following day, and the dock icon will be a day off, but I can only get it to the right day by quitting & re-launching it.

Another bounce

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I just got a bounce message from the forged spam which has the full headers:

Received: (qmail 22115 invoked by uid 507); 10 Dec 2002 18:21:39 -0000
Delivered-To: dublin-hotels.net-groups@dublin-hotels.net
Received: (qmail 22071 invoked by alias); 10 Dec 2002 18:21:34 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO macmegasite.com) (200.37.60.157)
  by 0 with SMTP; 10 Dec 2002 18:21:34 -0000
Received: from 170.107.201.224 ([170.107.201.224]) by symail.kustanai.co.kr with smtp; 11 Dec 2002 04:24:08 -0900
Received: from [117.78.63.74] by a231242.upc-a.zhello.nl with esmtp; 10 Dec 2002 19:23:11 -0100
Reply-To: 
Message-ID: <031d14e06c1b$3367d7b6$7ec66ca4@udgbby>
From: 
To: 
Subject: Really was that me?
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:59:36 -0000
MiME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 1 (High)
X-MSMail-Priority: High
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627
Importance: Normal

It appears to have originated from 200.37.60.157, which samspade.org seems to indicate is in South America, possibly Peru. Other hosts mentioned in the headers are in Korea.

Christmas Decorations

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xmas2002.jpg

Here’s how I decorated my home. The three buildings in my complex have a competition for best decorations & the “C” building is winning, as they do every year (I’m in the “A” building).

Someone else also got hit

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It looks like this guy also got hit by the same spammer:

In the last few months, I’ve actually gotten very good at filtering spam. It’s been reduced to a manageable level finally. However, I just returned from discover a ton of email… mostly bounced emails with a few “out of office” autoresponders thrown in there. Of course, I never emailed any of these people, but it seems some spammer spoofed my email address and sent his spam out to millions (the bounces keep pouring in…). With all the discussions of filters and whitelists vs. blacklists, does anyone have a solution for this sort of problem? Does this mean that I’m now going to be accused of spamming? Update: It’s getting worse. The bounce messages just keep on coming. Right now I’m pushing 100 messages in the last three hours. Even worse, though, is that I’m getting subscribed to all sorts of crap. It seems that a bunch of the emails in this spammers list are actually subscription emails, and instead of having “double opt-ins”, I’m getting automatically added to various subscription lists I have no interest in being a part of.