Finally got tired of the Russian sites attacking my websites

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I didn’t want to do it, I didn’t want to block an entire country from my sites. But I really felt like a had no choice.

My web site(s) were being attacked almost constantly. I decided that I no longer wanted to maintain an endless list of individually denied ip addresses. 

After 1500 it’s just too much to manage especially when you have to keep adding addresses.

I hated to lock out those folks who might actually enjoy my content, there simply wasn’t any other way to deal with the situation. 

How do you tell the good from the bad? The attackers, or bandwidth stealers from the guy in Moscow who reads and gets a laugh from stuff I say?

China is another country that is almost always hammering on my sites. 

They’re about to suffer the same fate as The Russian Federation.

Now I’m off to write some other stuff, perhaps a short story.

It’s one of those days for me, Squirrel!

A quiet morning in the mountains

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I’m moving a little slow today. But I feel pretty good.

I woke up to this view this morning and I gotta admit, as much as I’ve come to hate California views like this aren’t any part of what I hate.

I’ve been working on chores this morning and on making sure that the blog postings from the trip have been published.

Some kind of glitch sent them to the blog itself, but didn’t set their status to “Publish” I’m pretty sure it’s a setting in the software I’m running on the iPad. 

I’ll sort that out, then I’ll sit down and write a little bit.

Hopefully my brain will be working enough to say something interesting.

Have a nice Sunday wherever you are.

Time to hit the road

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Had a nice breakfast, drove around Las Vegas a bit just to get away from the strip.

My brother and I were curious about the differences between the “Tourist” area and the places where the real people lived.

All too soon it was time for me to drop my brother off at the airport, then head home myself.

I’m tired and looking forward to getting home. But I’m also looking forward to the silence of the drive across the desert.

Just the car, the road, & me.

Kind of a nice way to decompress after all the noise, lights, and hubbub of Sin City.

I should be home by 4pm. At least that’s what the navigation lady says.

I’ll rest today when I get home and catch up on chores tomorrow.

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend.

Oh and NO I’m not blogging while driving. I’m blogging from a gas station and the photo is one I snapped on the open road.

I wonder if I could blog while driving using dictation and a headset? Perhaps experimentation is in order.

Humm…