I added a 3 year archive of the hoyhoy-digest mailing list which was previously not available. The archive is 23 MB uncompressed, and about 8 MB gzip compressed. The php code inflates the gz text on the fly. I’ll probably change the indexing on that page eventually and list the archive by date.

I just added a some code to spawn a random short quote from my quotes page and place it right under the new banner. It’s both neat-o and whizbang.

I added another black theme, that I might use at some point. Also, I changed the default banner. Also, I made some updates to the php back-end to the site. But, hopefully, no one will notice that.

I created a holiday theme for involution.com. You can go here to preview the theme.

I got this message from Matt after looking at my rogue IBM-Rochester VNC session in Austin. Who needs hallmark when you have zephyr and cron at your disposal? Hopefully, next year he can write perl script to deposit a few bones into my credit union account on the proper day.

Some clever kiddies from Old Blighty came up with a novel way to blackhole spam with an SMTP Honeypot called Jackpot The first thing that spammers do to cover their tracks is look for an open relay. Jackpot, a pure Java SMTP relay honeypot, imitates the behavior of an SMTP relay, but doesn’t actually relay any of the mail that is sent to it. When someone attempts a mass spamming through Jackpot it logs the attempt, and gives you an option to report the spammer to their ISP for violating their Terms of Service.

Awstats, the open source, the free web log analyzer written in perl, has a development release that supports the Perl GeoIP plug-in. I’ve been running awstats on involution.com’s logs since April, and it has allowed me to better organize my site. Before the GeoIP plugin, you could only do reverse DNS to look-up all of the IPs in the log. Now, you can do reverse DNS in addition to using GeoIP to get a more accurate portrait of what countries are visiting your site.

I’ve been running this set of email filters called Spamassassin for the past few months, and not a single spam message has gotten through the filter. Not one. To top it off, there hasn’t been a single false positive (flagging a non spam message as spam) from running it either.

Teemu Toivola managed to create a whizbang irc statistics generation program called IRCStats.