i seem to have a few unread messages after being away fo a few days...lets hope its just the iphone messing me about and not really that many otherwise I'm going to have to get through a lot of Viagra emails.

Seems my blog got rapped by another bot yesterday, it ignored the robots.txt file much like ID-search.org so it looks like it was id harvesting.

The offending network was giganet from the 216.40.222.50 looks like another one for the htaccess file
seems like others are having the same problem http://www.a-daily-rant.com/2007/12/17/gigamega-gona/

Intel has released Linux source code, and set up a community site, to allow Fibre Channel frames to be embedded in Ethernet packets. This means companies using Fibre Channel can make more use of the protocol while maintaining their existing kit. Open-fcoe will provide a home for developments, as well as the various tools and guides that will be needed by anyone trying the technology.

From The Register
Ethernet dances the light fantastic
I seem to have lambasted the rest of the article when i made my comments on the The Register

Part of me thinks, where were the Assistants who do the crowd control and did the director even tell the authorities that they were filming in the area??...Of course not, probably another production on the cheap thinking they can get away with it,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7149216.stm
----- The director of an Angolan crime film says police have shot dead two of his actors after mistaking them for real armed robbers.

The duo were carrying unloaded firearms as they filmed a scene in a rough suburb of the capital Luanda, director Radical Ribeiro told AFP news agency.

He said police roared up to the set and began shooting at close range.

Angolan officials have not commented on the incident. Mr Ribeiro says he had permission to film in the area.

Mr Ribeiro told AFP that police arrived at the scene in a pick-up truck and "started shooting at everybody at close range".

He was "stunned" when he saw the two actors fall down, he added.

"They went on shooting until I shouted out: 'Please don't shoot, this is a movie.'"

The officers then stopped firing and left without attending to the wounded, who were taken to hospital, Mr Ribeiro said.

Google Maps with My Location (beta)

Their website says See your location on the map, with or without GPS. Save time and tedious keystrokes finding where you are, what's around you, and how to get there. Why the uncertainty? The My Location feature takes information broadcast from mobile towers near you to approximate your current location on the map - it's not GPS, but it comes pretty close (approximately 1000m close, on average). We're still in beta, but we're excited to launch this feature and are constantly working to improve our coverage and accuracy."

So as you can see from the picture the dot is not showing me where I am, (the dot is around St James somewhere when I'm currently located in Soho, London and the accuracy of the location data can be up to 5km off. So rather than telling me i'm in Soho it could be telling me I'm in Islington lets hope they improve the accuracy soon.

Well the academics at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis revealed their shock findings yesterday from their research "Beer makes people have sex with you!!!!"

Yes, they have already started on next years work Trying to find out if the Pope is Catholic and do Bears toilet in the woods.

Release http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0145-6008
Abstract http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1530-0277.2007.00537.x

No more listening to the guitarist tune up between songs, oh bliss! Guitar manufacturer Gibson has started to produce the self-tuning Robot Guitar.

The technical details of how the axe keeps the strings nicely in tune - via pitch-monitoring bridge, CPU, and servo-motored machine heads - is available here.

Also a great training vid HTTP://www.gibson.com/robotguitar/robotguitarvideovoting.aspx?playvideo=training

indexing is great and can allow people to find great stuff on the web but when someone comes along and programs their spiders to make 10000 request and indexes(rapes) the whole site, I think oh my god you've killed my bandwidth. Which has got me a bit pev'd. The last few times its be Id-search.org, you and read all about that on this link.
This time it looks like Identity sellers 192.com  .I don't mind them indexing but have some consideration of peoples bandwidth cost, 10000 pages in one go is just excessive. Here a example out of the log file.

212.227.102.48 "/blog/_archives/2007/9/5/3208735.html" "-" "192.comAgent" "GET /blog/_archives/2007/9/5/3208735.html HTTP/1.1 " - - "text/html"
[01/Dec/2007:14:26:14 -0500] 0 200 26523 GET blog.kking.co.uk

Whois for 212.227.102.48 from www.dnsstuff.com

inetnum:      212.227.68.0 - 212.227.108.255
netname:      SCHLUND-CUSTOMERS
descr:        Schlund + Partner AG
descr:        NCC#1999110113
country:      DE
admin-c:      UI-RIPE
tech-c:       UI-RIPE
rev-srv:      ns.schlund.de
rev-srv:      ns2.schlund.de
status:       ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by:       SCHLUND-MNT
changed:      ***@schlund.net 20040611
source:       RIPE

role:           Schlund NCC
address:        1&1 Internet AG
address:        Brauerstrasse 48
address:        D-76135 Karlsruhe
address:        Germany
remarks:        For abuse issues, please use only *****@oneandone.net
phone:          +49 721 91374 50
fax-no:         +49 721 91374 20
e-mail:         ***@oneandone.net
admin-c:        SPNC-RIPE
tech-c:         SPNC-RIPE
nic-hdl:        UI-RIPE
notify:         *********@oneandone.net
abuse-mailbox:  *****@oneandone.net
mnt-by:         SCHLUND-MNT
changed:        *****@schlund.com 20040512
changed:        *********@oneandone.net 20071116
changed:        *********@oneandone.net 20071119
source:         RIPE

% Information related to '212.227.0.0/16AS8560'

route:          212.227.0.0/16
descr:          SCHLUND-PA-2
origin:         AS8560
notify:         *********@oneandone.net
mnt-by:         SCHLUND-MNT
changed:        ***@schlund.net 20040611
changed:        *********@oneandone.net 20071030
source:         RIPE

So this IP range is now going into the firewall of the blog.