Showing posts with label blog visitors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog visitors. Show all posts

Sunday, June 17, 2012

3550 Mystery visitor

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Stop dwelling on your childhood and embrace your adulthood. Growing up is becoming the person you wanted to be.

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 For a while now, perhaps a week or two, this blog has been heavily visited by someone(s) in or near Washington, DC.  Whoever it is, they are not the usual visitor.  Feedjit shows them visiting the latest six or so posts in quick succession, every day, sometimes several times a day.  Feedjit also shows where the link is that they came in on - like I know when someone comes in through a Google search, through Google reader, a link in an email, or via a link in another blog or website. 

This visitor will visit five or six posts in less than a minute, and each visit is coming from a different site - and none of those sites have a link to this blog!  In other words, the link origin is faked, and I suspect the "Washington, DC" may be faked, too.

At first I thought it was someone who didn't want me to know who they were, so they were using a proxy.  Now I think it may be a spam robot.  (There's a (very) remote possibility it could be my own government, triggered by my links to middle eastern blogs and that I read a lot of middle eastern news reports and comment on foreign blogs and reports, but that's just paranoia.)

I'm half tempted to take word verification off.  If it's a spam robot, it'll show its colors immediately.

This is reminiscent of a few years ago when I was getting a lot of visits from Fort Meade, near Washington.  I'd heard, when I lived in that area, that Fort Mead is full of spies.  I asked in the blog "Who's coming in from Fort Meade?", and the visits immediately stopped.  Strange. 

Anyone else seeing anything like this?
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

3305 'Fess up

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write.
-- Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself --

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Someone is coming directly to this blog via smart phone - linux, android, safari - several times a day during the weekdays. I have my suspicions, but (ahem) that person had sworn off the internet during work.

Who is it? If you like, you can leave a comment with a dummy username (or a coded reference) such that I can figure out from whom it's coming, but no one else can.

I'm curious because there are only four likely candidates, and the fourth one worries me.
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