An ugly spam attempt

Every so often I take a look at what user agents are visiting WanderingThoughts . Tonight it turned up a doozy; a single visit with a User-Agent of:

Presumably the intended attack vector was sites that summarize useragent traffic onto a web page without escaping the text; that wouldmake this user-agent string into live JavaScript that would forceany visitor's browser to go there.

The attack is also noteworthy for how


Weekly spam summary on April 1st, 2006

Let's see what sort of April Fools joke the spammers have been havingthis week. This week, we:

  • got 14,298 messages from 221 different IP addresses.
  • handled 18,642 sessions from 966 different IP addresses.
  • received 153,366 connections from at least 49,555 different IPaddresses.
  • hit a highwater of 17 connections being checked at once.

Connection volume is up from last week , butsession volume


(學識了)置頂!!!!

「我這樣想:說得上詩的文字,大抵需要具備某種充滿意義的姿態。這裡『姿態』又比『意義』重要。不過漸漸明白,我終究無法拋開意義。」

——樊善標:〈後記〉,樊善標:《暗飛》(香港:麥穗出版有限公司,2006)

20060402網摘 – 愚人節快樂

It’s April Fool


The best April Fools joke I've seen here

My department has always done a lot of different things. Many years agowe were called 'Computing Services' ('University of Toronto ComputingServices' if you were being formal), and one of those things was a bunchof modems on a Sun 4. Of course, we had a greeting banner:

U of T Computing Services.

login:

(roughly what you saw if you dialed in.)

One April 1st, a co-worker changed this to ' U of T Confusing Services '.

The


A Firefox CSS irritation

I'm not going to fault Firefox for not supporting the CSS 2.1 ' word-wrap: pre-wrap ',no matter how convenient it would be for me if it did.Especially since CSS 2.1 is not yet a standard, merely a late stageworking draft. But I am annoyed that Firefox doesn't support the CSS2' display: compact ', since I could have used it just now.

' display: compact ' is classically used (in that it is right


小說家寫小說家


“其實,我是讀了魯迅先生的一篇叫做《藤野先生》的隨筆,了解到魯迅先生在明治三十七、八年,也就是日俄戰爭的時候,在仙台醫專讀書,並得到了名為藤野嚴九郎的先生的照顧……嗯,文章中大概是這樣的,於是我想我們

LOST 地圖

lostmap

最近有追看《LOST》,而在美國剛剛上映的第二季第十七話,內容講述 Locke 突然被鎖在艙裏,然後在幾秒的藍光之下,看到一幅似是地圖的東西。不過是前兩天才播放的一集,而在畫面上只是出現了一陣子的地圖,這兩天就被人徹底


北京


日前寫了在北京公幹的生活,意猶未盡,再寫一些關於這城市的感受。

2003年夏天,我和三位同事被派到北京外交學院學習一星期,同行的還有其他有機會接待外國客人的機構成員。

外交學院是很傳統的學校,能考入此校的

終於輪到電影節

寫完啟蒙幾天,終於有力氣打開電影訂票手冊(我們都習慣同時用兩本:a本看簡介的,b mark時段,mark完時段再抄到a的表格剪下)。電影節,總是記錯日子去錯地方遲到睡著,或者坐在門口抽煙,突然覺得錯過就錯過算了。兩