Man, I have been so busy this week. Not with work, though, but with real life stuff.
One thing that has been taking up my time the last couple of days is trying to get the jerks on myspace.com to stop hotlinking to my AIM.gif. We knew we had a problem about a week ago when the server was getting hammered with requests, but Marcus couldn't tie down what the exact problem was right away. If my or Marcus' sites have been taking forever to load, it was because of these direct linking morons. It turns out that one guy in particular took my little AOL icon and included it in every single comment he put on other myspace sites (and he commented ALOT!)
The first night I put a little 100x100 gif in place of the linked image and that took care of a lot of the offeders. The next night I put a 500x500 gif in its place and today I put a .htaccess file in place (made with this online .htaccesss generator) so they can't get the images at all. It turns out people all over are linking to my pictures...one chick even linked to a picture of my old hamster Honey Bear (claiming it was her missing hamster). People suck--especially people at myspace.com. Oh, and if you want to go see really, really bad web design, that's where you go. Some of those myspace sites gave me headaches. UGH!
Marcus' sister, her husband and children were into town over the weekend. On Saturday, Marcus and I met them up at Winter Park Resort. Fortunately, this was before the rocks decided to fall down all over I-70:
I won a pair of tickets from The Denver Post Score to see the BB King Bluesfest at Coors Amphitheatre on Tuesday. Since Marcus didn't want to go (I figured he wouldn't), I asked the next person that I knew that would reallly appreciate such an event...Dave. What an awesome concert! Even though his band wasn't that tight and I'm sure he doesn't play as well at 80 and he did in his younger years, BB King is an awesome entertainer. I'm so glad I got a chance to see a living legend. The opening acts were Joe Bonamassa, Robert Cray and Kenny Wayne Shephard. I had no idea that Kenny Wayne Shephard was such an awesome blues guitarist. I only knew that Blue on Black song that he does, but he really can play! I'll have to get one or two of his CDs.
One thing that has been taking up my time the last couple of days is trying to get the jerks on myspace.com to stop hotlinking to my AIM.gif. We knew we had a problem about a week ago when the server was getting hammered with requests, but Marcus couldn't tie down what the exact problem was right away. If my or Marcus' sites have been taking forever to load, it was because of these direct linking morons. It turns out that one guy in particular took my little AOL icon and included it in every single comment he put on other myspace sites (and he commented ALOT!)
The first night I put a little 100x100 gif in place of the linked image and that took care of a lot of the offeders. The next night I put a 500x500 gif in its place and today I put a .htaccess file in place (made with this online .htaccesss generator) so they can't get the images at all. It turns out people all over are linking to my pictures...one chick even linked to a picture of my old hamster Honey Bear (claiming it was her missing hamster). People suck--especially people at myspace.com. Oh, and if you want to go see really, really bad web design, that's where you go. Some of those myspace sites gave me headaches. UGH!Marcus' sister, her husband and children were into town over the weekend. On Saturday, Marcus and I met them up at Winter Park Resort. Fortunately, this was before the rocks decided to fall down all over I-70:
Rockslides Close I-70 Near Idaho Springs
CDOT: Westbound I-70 Won't Reopen Until Monday
POSTED: 11:24 am MDT August 14, 2005
UPDATED: 7:56 pm MDT August 14, 2005
IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Three rockslides Saturday night shut down a five-mile stretch of westbound Interstate 70 between Idaho Springs and Dumont, causing major traffic delays for drivers headed into the mountains.
Westbound lanes aren't expected to reopen until Monday morning, the Colorado Department of Transportation said.
The eastbound lanes were shut down briefly Sunday afternoon while crews used explosives to blast massive rocks that were too large to be moved. The frontage road that was being used as a detour was also shut down briefly, but drivers say the delay was worth it if it meant getting the road back open.
The first slide occurred at about 8:45 p.m. The westbound lanes were cleaned up in about two hours only to be closed again after a second slide at 11:30 p.m. And then the largest slide -- about 75 feet long -- occurred 5:30 a.m. Sunday and covered the westbound lanes.
Wet weather was to blame for the series of rockslides, authorities said. Water gets behind the rock and loosens them up and the slightest movement can send them tumbling downhill, CDOT said.
What wasn't moving was the traffic. Westbound traffic was diverted through Idaho Springs on the frontage road and it was very slow going. Tempers started to rise as drivers sat in traffic for up to five hours.
"It's 40 miles of parking lot here," said one frustrated driver.
After blasting away the larger boulders and clearing the debris, engineering crews noticed a fracture on the wall. Geologists were concerned about the possibility of another rockslide Sunday evening so to be safe, CDOT are closing westbound traffic until crews can use jackhammers and bulldozers to scale the wall to make sure that there's no more loose rock.
State crews are still cleaning up a June 21 rock slide just east of where U.S. 6 and Colorado 119 converge. They have to remove more rock than originally anticipated because of the instability of the mountainside.
The closure has diverted casino buses to Interstate 70, where they use exit 244, go east on U.S. 6 about 3 miles to Colorado 119 and then to the gambling towns of Central City and Black Hawk.
It also has sent some motorists to the 8.4-mile-long Central City Parkway that opened in November at I-70 exit 243.
Marcus noticed a snowplow going the wrong way on I-70 when we were coming back to Denver Saturday night. It had started raining earlier in the evening, so I knew there was either a really bad accident or a rockslide. They finally got I-70 reopened today. CDOT: Westbound I-70 Won't Reopen Until Monday
POSTED: 11:24 am MDT August 14, 2005
UPDATED: 7:56 pm MDT August 14, 2005
IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Three rockslides Saturday night shut down a five-mile stretch of westbound Interstate 70 between Idaho Springs and Dumont, causing major traffic delays for drivers headed into the mountains.
Westbound lanes aren't expected to reopen until Monday morning, the Colorado Department of Transportation said.
The eastbound lanes were shut down briefly Sunday afternoon while crews used explosives to blast massive rocks that were too large to be moved. The frontage road that was being used as a detour was also shut down briefly, but drivers say the delay was worth it if it meant getting the road back open.
The first slide occurred at about 8:45 p.m. The westbound lanes were cleaned up in about two hours only to be closed again after a second slide at 11:30 p.m. And then the largest slide -- about 75 feet long -- occurred 5:30 a.m. Sunday and covered the westbound lanes.
Wet weather was to blame for the series of rockslides, authorities said. Water gets behind the rock and loosens them up and the slightest movement can send them tumbling downhill, CDOT said.What wasn't moving was the traffic. Westbound traffic was diverted through Idaho Springs on the frontage road and it was very slow going. Tempers started to rise as drivers sat in traffic for up to five hours.
"It's 40 miles of parking lot here," said one frustrated driver.
After blasting away the larger boulders and clearing the debris, engineering crews noticed a fracture on the wall. Geologists were concerned about the possibility of another rockslide Sunday evening so to be safe, CDOT are closing westbound traffic until crews can use jackhammers and bulldozers to scale the wall to make sure that there's no more loose rock.
State crews are still cleaning up a June 21 rock slide just east of where U.S. 6 and Colorado 119 converge. They have to remove more rock than originally anticipated because of the instability of the mountainside.
The closure has diverted casino buses to Interstate 70, where they use exit 244, go east on U.S. 6 about 3 miles to Colorado 119 and then to the gambling towns of Central City and Black Hawk.
It also has sent some motorists to the 8.4-mile-long Central City Parkway that opened in November at I-70 exit 243.
I won a pair of tickets from The Denver Post Score to see the BB King Bluesfest at Coors Amphitheatre on Tuesday. Since Marcus didn't want to go (I figured he wouldn't), I asked the next person that I knew that would reallly appreciate such an event...Dave. What an awesome concert! Even though his band wasn't that tight and I'm sure he doesn't play as well at 80 and he did in his younger years, BB King is an awesome entertainer. I'm so glad I got a chance to see a living legend. The opening acts were Joe Bonamassa, Robert Cray and Kenny Wayne Shephard. I had no idea that Kenny Wayne Shephard was such an awesome blues guitarist. I only knew that Blue on Black song that he does, but he really can play! I'll have to get one or two of his CDs.
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