I was just folding laundry and I had a Eureka moment (well - I'm not suggesting that it was so much of a Eureka moment that I was running around in my birthday suit - much too chilly for that!).
I was thinking to myself why all of a sudden I had this gust of inspiration and then it came to me - clear as day.
As per my Saturday morning routine, I was having my coffee and reading the Saturday paper. There was an article that I read and I can't believe that it is a coincidence. I didn't consciously base my experiment on this article, but it just had to be the subconscious root of it.
The article was about a book that was written on an experiment that was conducted. The name of the book is "Moby Duck". The experiment is that scientists went out into the middle of the ocean with thousands of specially coded little yellow rubber bath ducks. They had a "duck overboard" moment and dumped them all into the Atlantic. The premise of this experiment was to use the coding on the ducks to track their movements through the ocean in order to study the currents.
I thought to myself, wow - this is EXACTLY what I am doing - it's just an electronic version, but the premise is exactly the same. I'm tracking the ebbs and flows of the Internet.
Ducks away! Here's duck #1 to test for harvesting of email addresses on websites:
full_throttle_t01@hotmail.com
An interesting side note that I've noticed. I've often wondered about some of these foreign hits that I get. What I have noticed is that very often, I'll get a hit from UAE or some other location immediately upon posting. Obviously this means that this site is being automatically monitored somehow. Who knows why - it's a piddly little technology blog, but I'm going to check to see how quickly I get a hit on this blog entry and where it comes from.
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