My Profile

That was humor.



To be honest I must say that I never expect anyone to come here. This particular page exists to satisfy my own sense of humor.

Let's start at the beginning. I'm a robust, 6' tall man with

No. Let me start over. I'm a curvaceous blonde woman with huge

heh.

I suppose I just can't get it right.

If people really want to find out about me and these pages are not enough, they may write me and I guarantee (or ga-ron-teee) a response. If I get a number of requests, I may change my mind and post details about me, this being SouthBeach where such foolishness is appropriate. This, of course, is a safe statement because Jane Websurfer never writes, for fear of losing anonymity.

What silly Jane does not know is that she never had anonymity, only the illusion thereof. Each request for a page, file, or image on ANY server gets a log entry in the access logs on the server. The information therein varies from host to host and from server program to server program, but the Apache "combined" logs --which are also called common combined logs (because they are so common) frequently contain the following:

Most ethical hosts opt not to track the user ID, so it becomes a blank field in their logs. GeoCities seems like an ethical host to me, so they probably do not track user IDs, but to be sure you should ask. They will probably tell you.

Do you suddenly feel naked? Does this bother you that someone knows about every file/page/image you have viewed or tried to view? It should. Be more careful next time. You don't know who is looking at those logs. After all, if I really knew what I was doing I could read the logs from GeoCities, which would lead me to your ISP, read their logs, which would lead me to you, and send you a "thank you for visiting my page so now I will send you spam for the rest of your life" message. Do you get spam? Have you ever wondered where it comes from? Now you know.

The other place spammers get your address is from your web page or by sending innocuous, automated queries to your ISP's sendmail port or its database.

Back to my profile. I am not giving personal information unless people really want it. For the most part I regard it as just that: personal. This means that I have no desire to post it (obviously) unless I see a huge demand (which, I have said is fairly unlikely for the aformentioned reason). Besides, I've given quite a bit of information (depending on how perceptive you are) already, especially on my stupid blather page.

Seriously, who would want to read about me? I'm quite boring.

I should add that I'm not sixteen. In fact, I'm not a teenager at all. Judging by the number of teenagers (all two) who have written me, I feel obliged to point this out so that my adolescent attitudes don't mislead anyone into thinking I'm worth talking to when clearly I'm not. Without handing out my date of birth, I'll consider it sufficient to say that I've not been a teenager for some time and I'm old enough for Uncle Sam to let me drink in bars. I'm not, however, old enough to be President.


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