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

View all 452 photos HERE.


--- Duck]]> General, Photography, Racing http://dfduck.net/?entry=entry080603-044413 dfduck@gmail.com Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:44:13 GMT http://dfduck.net/index.php?entry=entry080527-045707
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]]> General, Photography, Racing http://dfduck.net/?entry=entry080527-045707 dfduck@gmail.com Tue, 27 May 2008 11:57:07 GMT http://dfduck.net/index.php?entry=entry080518-055854
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]]> General, Computer, Music http://dfduck.net/?entry=entry080518-055854 dfduck@gmail.com Sun, 18 May 2008 12:58:54 GMT http://dfduck.net/index.php?entry=entry080514-024416  
All American Speedway. Roseville, CA.
200 lap stockcar enduro race.

View all 487 photos HERE.]]> General, Photography, Racing http://dfduck.net/?entry=entry080514-024416 dfduck@gmail.com Wed, 14 May 2008 09:44:16 GMT http://dfduck.net/index.php?entry=entry080429-110737 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]]> General, Computer http://dfduck.net/?entry=entry080429-110737 dfduck@gmail.com Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:07:37 GMT http://dfduck.net/index.php?entry=entry080420-190523 business. Same with web ads. If I'm looking to buy viagra I'll seek it out. I
don't need 500 fucking spam emails a month with viagra ads. And another 500
spams about how to have a bigger dick. If I want a big swelled up dick I'll
slam it in the toilet seat.

People complain about how much time it takes to delete spam emails.  I don't
delete them. Gmail deletes things in the spam folder after 30 days so why should
I waste my time. And that way I can see how many spams I get a month :>   There's
usually average of 1000 spams in my spam folder. I don't look at them, I don't
delete them. I do now and then take a gander in there just to make sure no non
spam got filtered. And in the few years I've used gmail that has never happened.
They have an excellent spam filter.  Very infrequently does a spam make it into
my normal inbox.

Deleting spam is a huge waste of manpower. Say it takes you only 1 minute a day to
go in and delete spams.  Thats 30 minutes a month, 360 minutes or 6 hours a year.
If you make $10/hr thats $60/yr to delete spam. While that doesn't sound like much,
multiply that 1 million people (and there's many millions doing it) thats equivelant
of $60,000,000 a year spent deleting spam emails.

Then add on how much extra you have to pay for all the bandwidth spam emails use.
Bandwidth isn't free, your ISP passes that cost on to you, the consumer.  Spam is
very expensive.  But its those 'few' who actually click and buy viagra that makes
it a profitable multi million (if not billion) dollar industry. If you ask 100
people if they buy products from spam emails, 100 of them will say No.  But some
of them are fucking liers. And THEY are the ones that are costing you and I money
paying higher prices for bandwidth. Not the spammers. But the ones that buy from
spammers. If it wasn't for buyers, spamming wouldn't be a profitable busines. It
would soon die and go away.

Losers with tiny dicks who can't get a hardon are costing you money.

--- Duck]]> General, Computer http://dfduck.net/?entry=entry080420-190523 dfduck@gmail.com Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:05:23 GMT http://dfduck.net/index.php?entry=entry080216-050241
Taking my camera, a change of clothes, and my old guitar. Thats it.

--- Duck]]> General http://dfduck.net/?entry=entry080216-050241 dfduck@gmail.com Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:02:41 GMT http://dfduck.net/index.php?entry=entry080119-180902 Then my heater.

And no way to get to the store.]]> General http://dfduck.net/?entry=entry080119-180902 dfduck@gmail.com Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:09:02 GMT http://dfduck.net/index.php?entry=entry071108-142125
I had my landline phone and dialup internet shut off to save money to move to Iowa next spring. I can still access the internet some with my cell phone. It's enough to at least check my email with. But I can't upload any photos or new music with it.  So, till next spring I'll be for the most part absent from the internet.

--- Duck]]> General, Computer, Photography, Music http://dfduck.net/?entry=entry071108-142125 dfduck@gmail.com Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:21:25 GMT http://dfduck.net/index.php?entry=entry071027-022115
I just can't get my Canon S3IS to focus on anything, but Ikeep trying.

--- Duck]]> General, Photography http://dfduck.net/?entry=entry071027-022115 dfduck@gmail.com Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:21:15 GMT