Who, me?

Since it’s raining again, and I find myself with a few minutes that aren’t immediately required for some time-sensitive task, I had the chance to peruse the access logs on groove. This proved very interesting, to say the least.

Since I started this blog a few months ago, about 800 unique visitors have been through, and the blog averages about 1,000 hits a day now. If this keeps up, I’m gonna have to move GN to my colo box.

One thing that definitely caught my eye, however, was four lines in an archived logfile. You may have seen this posting, where I made a mention of the PATRIOT act, and a few comments on the current government’s attempts to circumvent the Constitution in order to “protect the people”. That was posted on April 27. Here’s those four lines from the logfile:

wdcsun20.usdoj.gov – – [30/Apr/2003:13:51:18 -0400] “GET /guerrillanetworking/archives/2003_04.html HTTP/1.0” 200 79931 “http://cpanel.nocspeed.com/~tinker/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&entry_id=336” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; T312461; DOJ3jx7bf)”

wdcsun20.usdoj.gov – – [30/Apr/2003:13:51:18 -0400] “GET /guerrillanetworking/styles-site.css HTTP/1.0” 200 4851 “http://groove.jpj.net/guerrillanetworking/archives/2003_04.html” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; T312461; DOJ3jx7bf)”

wdcsun20.usdoj.gov – – [30/Apr/2003:13:51:20 -0400] “GET /guerrillanetworking/images/weather.jpg HTTP/1.0” 200 38300 “http://groove.jpj.net/guerrillanetworking/archives/2003_04.html” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; T312461; DOJ3jx7bf)”

wdcsun20.usdoj.gov – – [30/Apr/2003:13:51:24 -0400] “GET /guerrillanetworking/images/kellydarren-tm.jpg HTTP/1.0” 200 438689 “http://groove.jpj.net/guerrillanetworking/archives/2003_04.html” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; T312461; DOJ3jx7bf)”

The entry page was the archive page with that posting at the top, referred by Ed Felton’s Freedom to Tinker blog.

Feel free to draw your own conclusions.