Entries this day: Beach Googlebot Joysticks artists_way

Beach

5:17pm JST Wednesday 9 March 2011 (day 14959)

I went "spelunking" at the beach today, basically crawling down into a space under the tetrapods which I bet gets very few human visitors. It was a bit scary ("what if they happen to fall *right now* after not falling for years and not even shifting since the last huge typhoon over a year ago????"), but it was such a relief when I did it.

Googlebot

4:59pm JST Wednesday 9 March 2011 (day 14959)

Hmm! Two (or more) of my domains have been hacked in that if *I* view them they look fine, but if Googlebot views them, they look like spam. Poor, poor Googlebot, always being picked on by nasty spammers.

how do I debug this? I've gotten as far as viewing the page in Firefox using User Agent add-on to masquerade as Googlebot and seeing the spam, but I don't know what's triggering the spam. My .htaccess files look fine. I didn't notice anything in other files that looked bad. Hmmmmm.

The *good* news is that one of the sites that's been spammed is pretty small, and entirely available through git, so I should be able to pretty quickly find what changed on the site.

Joysticks

5:04pm JST Wednesday 9 March 2011 (day 14959)

_Joysticks_ came out in 1983, when I was 13, and wanting to see some boobies. I finally downloaded it last night and watched it today. It's not exactly a boobie-fest, but it's got more than _Airplane!_, and would have been plenty had I seen it at age 13.

At age 41, I was vaguely entertained by its characters, which were maxed out to the max. I enjoyed Patsy's accent, but don't tell anyone.

artists way

5:16pm JST Wednesday 9 March 2011 (day 14959)

Headed to Artist's Way now, one train late, but had given ourselves plenty of time, so we're still on time.