Day: May 17, 2002

  • Otaku Purity Test

    According to the Otaku Purity Test I score a 63. “Your mother is worried about you.” Shows you what they know about my mother, huh?

    Dawn, who sent me the link, scored an 81. “Stop watching anime and go outside!”

    Oh, and somebody should convince the person(s) behind that website that coding exclusively for Infobahn Exploder should be a crime punishable by death. Or something.

  • Five For Friday

    It’s been a few weeks since the last one, so here’s a Friday Five for y’all:

    • What shampoo do you use? – Senscience. My previous hairstylist turned me on to it, and it works wonders.
    • Do you use conditioner? What kind? – Nope, I figure between the hairstyle I sport, the robust cleaning and the subsequent gelling, I don’t really need conditioner.
    • When was the last time you got your hair cut? – Yesterday morning, in fact. Catch me on the webcam, you can see how it looks.
    • What styling products do you use? – Aussie Mega styling gel. It does what I need it to do, which isn’t really saying much as my needs are pretty simple.
    • What’s your worst hair-related experience? – Oh, I figure it was all those years I spent with the delusion that I could wear my hair long and not look like an utter dork. That or the time my grandmother gave me a bowl-cut when we moved out from New York to the hinterlands of central Washington.
  • GreyDuck, this week on Biography

    Upon (finally) realizing that many visitors to this website would have absolutely no freaking idea who I am or what I’m doing here, I decided to write up a biographical page to clear up the mystery.

    Two months later, I’ve actually gotten around to doing it.

    Right below the “Home” link at the upper-left corner of each page is a “Bio” link. Click and read, kind visitor.
    GreyDuck Bio Page

  • Thank you, Invite.net

    For the most part, I’m very pleased with the service I get from Invite.net. They might want to look into changing how they roll out new domains, however. By default, they provide a version of formmail.pl that is hugely susceptible to being used as a spam relay.

    I discovered this, of course, when I found several dozen “undeliverable” notices in my mailbox this evening. Luckily, one of the offending messages included a link to the means of transmission. Otherwise I’d still be sitting here at home scratching my head in wonder. Instead I’ve simply taken the step of making all of the scripts Invite provided me with non-executable. I also renamed formmail.pl to be safe.

    While a big chunk of blame lands on Invite for this snafu, it bears mentioning that I could and should have investigated and disabled any scripts I had no intention of using right when I first rolled out the website. Let this be a lesson to anyone who sets up hosting on someone else’s machine: Remove or disable anything you aren’t actually going to need. You never know which services and scripts are vulnerable to abuse.