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3/29/2008 - Weekend rant

Since hardly anybody seems to read the entries I post on weekends, at least not within five days or so, I thought I'd just blow off some steam this morning. I finally found out who or what is behind all the hits I get from Grass Valley, CA. At present their location is given as Washington, DC. It's a company called Performance Systems International, and according to most sources it's nothing more than a spambot.

It's been annoying me for a year and a half now, and for the past six months I simply kept their IP addresses out of my StatCounter visitor stats. I didn't know about whois, so there was no way for me of knowing who they were. Until yesterday, when I accidentally deleted their IP range (38.0.0.0 thru 38.255.255.255) from the list of blocked IP's at StatCounter. I finally found out the name of the company, and I immediately launched an investigation.

A simple Google search unearthed a myriad of people with the same problem. Now, if they simply crawled my new posts, I wouldn't have a problem with it. From the days before I excluded their IP range from my visitor stats however, I remember clearly, that they mirror my every movement on my blog, sometimes within 30 seconds. More often than not they mirror the movements of my visitors who come to my page via search engines and the JournalHome front page. I even read that their activity sometimes causes eCommerce sites with high traffic rates to run slowly. If at any given day 30 visitors find my blog I open a bottle of champaign, so there's no danger of my blog running slow because of PSI, but it's my wish to ged rid of them once and for all.

Another interesting explanation I read someplace, is that they might be working for the US government, spying on blogs in the name of the USA Patriot Act. If that's the case, let them chew on this: bomb * terrorist * president. If I don't get arrested now... Neh, the spambot theory is far more likely.

I'VE WRITTEN A SLIGHT RECTIFICATION ON APRIL 12, 2008

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3/29/2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Fightingfemale

Yes, it sounds just like the u.s. government to be watching you while every thug and miscreant does whatever he pleases. Your site is loading faster these days. It used to take a much longer time. My statcounter on my other site just stopped working.

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3/31/2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by dutchboy

About the faster loading. Well... I have been experimenting with a whole lot of widgets, and I have found that some have really been slowing down my blog (most notably Twitter), but now I'm 100% satisfied.

One thing I'd like to add, by the way, is that I recently googled JournalHome, and it turns out that it's in the 99th percentile of slowest loading sites on the internet. Don't say that out loud, though. It's a great site, all the same.

About your other site... Have they disabled indonesianislandscript** or something?

**it appears to be impossible to use the real word in comments.

Edited by dutchboy on 3/31/2008 at 12:25 PM

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