{"id":138,"date":"2002-03-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timcurran.com\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2002-03-18T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-03-18T10:00:00","slug":"review-for-publication-busted-by-brad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/18\/review-for-publication-busted-by-brad\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW FOR PUBLICATION: Busted By Brad"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve now been busted twice by Brad Allison, a guy I know from Remington’s and the Eagle, and whose online journal<\/a> I have been following for a while. It’s a little embarrassing, but what the hell.<\/p>\n

The first time was shortly after I bought my iPAQ PDA. I was playing around with the AvantGo offline web browser software, and I set it to download his blog every time AvantGo synchronized the PDA browser. Brad is the kind of geek that obsessively scans his server logs, and within a week he noticed that someone (he had no way of knowing it was me, thank gawd) was downloading his pages through an avantgo server. He made a remark like, “What, is this guy downloading my journal so he can read it on the crapper?” <\/p>\n

So, naturally, I took him off my AvantGo setup. (I set up an Internet Explorer Mobile Favorite to download the page daily. Ahem.)<\/p>\n

Then, just last week, Brad set up a webcam page. Now, call me a kooky voyeur — I have a lot of company — but I like watching people’s webcams. I have one myself.<\/a> And to simplify watching several at once, I use a handy little freeware program called
Webcam-Watcher.<\/a> Now, as far as web servers are concerned, Webcam-Watcher pretends that it’s just another Internet Explorer web browser. But in order to set up a webcam on the program, you have to manually enter certain information, like the “referring page” that a web browser transmits to the server each time it requests a file. And I screwed up, slightly. I put in the wrong referring page for Brad’s webcam. And wouldn’t you know it: obsessive log reader that he is, it only took him three days this time to notice that someone (once again, he doesn’t know who — unless he reads this, of course) was downloading his cam image, but sending a “referring page” where the cam image did not appear. Woops! Busted again! And this time, having mistakenly assumed that I went to the trouble of hand-coding a script to download the darn webcam image, he called me a “webcam stalker.” Well, I never!<\/p>\n

So now I’ve fixed the referring page setup problem in Webcam Watcher. But I also sent Brad an e-mail (anonymously, of course, since I know him in real life as well) saying I’d be happy to take him out of my Webcam-Watcher setup, if that’s what he wants. So far he hasn’t responded.`<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve now been busted twice by Brad Allison, a guy I know from Remington’s and the Eagle, and whose online journal I have been following for a while. It’s a little embarrassing, but what the hell. The first time was shortly after I bought my iPAQ PDA. I was playing around with the AvantGo offline web browser software, and I set it to download his blog every time AvantGo synchronized the PDA browser. Brad is the kind of geek that obsessively scans his server logs, and within a week he noticed that someone (he had no way of knowing it was me, thank gawd) was downloading his pages through an avantgo server. He made a remark like, “What, is this guy downloading my journal so he can read it on the crapper?” So, naturally, I took him off my AvantGo setup. (I set up an Internet Explorer Mobile Favorite to download the page daily. Ahem.) Then, just last week, Brad set up a webcam page. Now, call me a kooky voyeur — I have a lot of company — but I like watching people’s webcams. I have one myself. And to simplify watching several at once, I use a handy little freeware program called Webcam-Watcher. Now, as far as web servers are concerned, Webcam-Watcher pretends that it’s just another Internet Explorer web browser. But in order to set up a webcam on the program, you have to manually enter certain information, like the “referring page” that a web browser transmits to the server each time it requests a file. And I screwed up, slightly. I put in the wrong referring page for Brad’s webcam. And wouldn’t you know it: obsessive log reader that he is, it only took him three days this time to notice that someone (once again, he… <\/p>\n

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