Referrer Madness


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I usually glance at my wusage-digested server logs every few days.  This evening I saw the strangest thing pointing to 10/1 on my weblog:

http://srd.yahoo.com/S=2766679:WS1/R=22/K=free solitare downloads for mac OS X/T=1037006744/F=da6c3a21153f1686e3c45b90bc9f20bd/*http://postneo.com/2002/10/01.html

Is it just me, or is that one funky referrer?

Other server log goodies: google.ca, google.com, and google.co.jp liked 9/17 so much in this last week that they decided to crawl it.

One other thing that perplexes me is that if I type http://hasselbladusa.com, I find out that they are running Apache 1.3.9 and I am forbidden to do anything with / on their server.  However, if I type http://www.hasselbladusa.com, I get a happy fun corporate homepage.  I know that most web users out there couldn’t fathom a website without www. in front of it (don’t worry, I’m not talking about you, I know you know better), but it saves wear and tear on my wrists and fingers, so I avoid www. as much as possible.

You’ll notice that I have set my blog up on all of the search engines and news services and stuff as http://postneo.com, not http://www.postneo.com.  I like it, it’s shorter, simpler, and looks hella cooler.  I also use http://google.com to shorten things (when I’m not in mozilla, which is set to search google of course), and usually forget the http:// thing unless neccesary.  For the sake of this ramt, prefixing urls with http:// means that Radio hyperlinks them, which is good for a lazy weblogger ranting.