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Thu, Oct 19, 2006

The Bots have found me.

Posted at 6:58 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

I've been adding features to the weblog -- making the comment pages look like they belong to the rest of it, and turning on logging. It still needs a formal copyright notice and a way to get back from Comments mode to normal mode, and some other things (suggestions welcome).

I've only had the log turned on for a couple of days, and its fun to know that people have actually looked at the blog, and that the bots are busily weaving it into the web. In the past day or so I've been scanned by Yahoo Slurp and Googlebots and Moreover.com bots. This probably happened before I got the log going, too, but now I know about it. Makes this whole thing feel more real somehow.

But it's annoying that Yahoo doesn't seem to use the same IP address twice. It seems wasteful somehow. Google used two IPs, one for the main blog and one hitting the rss feed (which I really hope works) which seems more reasonable.

There are widgets I could add that would ping weblogs.com when the site gets updated, too, but I need to find one that won't lock up my site if weblogs.com is not responding.

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