The race photos have been posted and are now online for your viewing pleasure.

View all 452 photos HERE.


--- Duck

It was a heck of a race! A lot of people had and lost the lead through the race, Dan Reed, #58 Wess Brown Jr. #29, and Jay Cookson #96 were the three that lead the most laps.  It looked as though Jay Cookson from Windsor CA had it all wrapped up, but with only 13 laps remaining in the race he got a flat tire, and ran over a muffler pipe laying on the track that (I think) poked a hole in his transmission. Cookson kept running as long as he could but Wess Brown from Chico CA was catching him fast.  I think Cookson's transmission finally gave out and with only 2 laps left in the race had to exit to the pits. Wess Brown #92 won the race for the 7th time in the races 10 year history. Gene Guinn Jr. #8 got second place, his best finish ever!

I took over 1,100 photographs of the race, but they came out a bit grainy.  I had my camera still set to ISO 800 from the last night race at All American Speedway, and didn't notice till it after I had gotten home. I knew somthing wasn't right.. but was too tired and busy to figure it out till it was too late.

I won't be able to post the photos online till June 3rd because my internet connection has Mb per month limit then it starts costing me extra.. and I passed that limit last week already.  So check back after the 3rd and you'll find a link to the photos over on the left side of this page.

I'm not going to worry about offering prints at my cost since I got no response from my print offer on the All American Speedway photos, and set up a special website for it. And as grainy as these photos are they're not much worth printing anyway.

--- Duck

I created a new website to post old blues music and old time radio shows.

All files are 16kbps MP3 so even people on dialup connections can listen to them!

It has a search function, and even lets you create custom playlists. The only thing it doesn't have that I wish it did is random order play.

http://oldtime.quackhousemedia.net/

--- Duck

 
All American Speedway. Roseville, CA.
200 lap stockcar enduro race.

View all 487 photos HERE.

This morning I loaded my Quack House Media web site and saw there was 25
users connected. There is usually never more than 2 at a time. So I loaded
the Admin console to see who it was.  Turned out 20 of then were Yahoo, and
most of those connections were streaming music which is explicitly disallowed
in the robots.txt file.  Yahoo has always been abusive and used bad spidering
bots that ignore robots.txt, I had them blocked.  But it looks like they have
changed their bots to a new IP block because so many people have blocked them
from their sites.

Yahoo has always been an abusive company, installing 10 to 20 tracking cookies
and spywares on your computer every time you visit their site.  Then they
partnered up with Alexia, one of the biggest spyware companies on the face of
the planet. Alexia keeps changing their name; Alexia > Alexis > A9. Makes me
think of my old CD radio days when someone would be a real jerk, usually when
drunk, the would change their handle thinking that would fool people. But they
still had the same voice, and were still jerks.

When buzznet.com alligned themselves with A9 and put links to download their
tracking spyware 'toolbar' on every page on the site, thats when I left. Marc
Brown (buzznet president) argued that the toolbar was "a handy tool". Well
duhhhh.. most trojan programs are, how else would you get people to use them.

If your website is being "attacked" by Yahoo you can block then from your
site by adding a few lines to your .htaccess file. These two deny's will work
for now anyway, till Yahoo switches IP blocks again to get around people
denying their access.

Add these lines to your .htaccess file, or create a new one if you don't have
one already, and upload it to your web site root directory;


Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
## yahoo
Deny from 74.6.0.0/16
Deny from 67.195.0.0/16


I hope this helps a few people from having their site raped and abused by
Yahoo.

--- Duck