Eddie On Everything

I operate a number of websites, some quite large as far as total “number of pages.” Over the years, I’ve noticed an increasing number of poorly behaved web crawler applications – some completely ignore the robots.txt file, and more and more submit dozens of requests per minute. (eek!) For a site with [...]

News that UK and US authorities foiled a plot to use liquid explosives to bring down airliners hit the wires hard last week, and it hit travellers even harder as air traffic was disrupted worldwide. People were banned from bringing carry-on bags aboard, and liquids of any kind were prohibited as the authorities tried [...]