The Russians Try to Shut tdaxp Down!
by tdaxp ~ March 11th, 2010
Many friends have expressed concern that this blog has been down for about two days. The attacker was Russian — 77.88.27.55 (ws3-095.yandex.ru).
Russia — for those readers too young to remember when it was a country that mattered — is a Central Asian petrostate best known for invading small neighbors and rampant alcoholism.
Fortunately my web host provided me tools to block the attacker, and responder quicker the next time the Russians try to shut me down (this was not the first time, and won’t be the last).
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March 11th, 2010 at 10:47 am
No crap! Here’s a Russian piece of art for you to watch. I watch this, I feed like a bug on a windshield, not yet dead and forced to watch the driver drink Starbucks: http://trololololololololololo.com/
March 12th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
Here is a tale of Russian failure and decay to start the weekend off well…
“Once-legendary Russian weapons are suffering embarrassing quality problems, and Russia’s own military is in talks with France to buy assault ships.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/business/global/13ruble.html?adxnnl=1&ref=global-home&adxnnlx=1268454432-bpdhXGyJR5L8DMJrzfqS7A
March 13th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Fred,
I prefer my quasi-absurdist humor to have up and coming German actors who play calculating sociopaths in Tarentino flicks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUbGcRJUDu0&feature=player_embedded
Dan,
Now that I am posting on your blog, I am curious as to how the spam worked.
March 16th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Certainly a frustrating experience.
Damn Russian terrorists.
I assume Obama’s chances of standing firm against Russian cyberterrorism is as good as him standing firm against Mexican cartel violence against government workers: none. [1]
[1] http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gMi5B2USfJStXxfqgWWr2xjRYpOgD9EG2ER00
March 18th, 2010 at 3:07 am
Speaking of which, I remember a rep. from a conservative think tank (it might have been the Heritage Foundation) asserting that the raised level of violence in Mexico has to do with the Mexico gov’t “finally” doing something about the drug war.
Thing is, the last time I checked, most of the violence is between rival cartels, and most civilian casualties are ones caught between the crossfire.
Or am I wrong?
March 18th, 2010 at 5:56 am
Jeffrey, those aren’t contradictory answers, so it seems both can be right.