Wednesday, December 19, 2001

Web Color Design

Color Schemer - The Ultimate Color Tool For Serious Web Designers
A good quick tutorial on color theory (explaining complementary, split-complementary, triad, and analogous color schemes).

WebVoodoo's WebDesignClinic - Color Theory 101
Explains color theory, tints, tones, and how to develop color schemes.

WebVoodoo's WebDesignClinic - It's All Relative: The Continuing Saga of Color
A in-depth look at color theory (lots of text, very few graphics).

WebVoodoo's WebDesignClinic - Setting the mood with color
Discusses how color can set the mood, er... never mind.

Color Matters
A web site devoted to matters of color.

posted by Wuphon's Reach at 6:29 PM

Fun E-Mails at the Webmaster Address

Got this in my webmaster@ mailbox today for some domains where I'm responsible for the web servers, so I plugged it piece by piece into babblefish (which gave me enough information to understand what the letter was about):

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Subject: Anfrage, Ihre URL bei uns aufnehmen zu d|rfen

Sehr geehrter Webmaster,

wenn auch teils unueblich im Internet, moechten wir mittels dieser Email anfragen, ob wir Ihre Internetpraesenz in Kuerze im Datenbestand unserer internationalen Suchmaschine erfassen duerfen. Dieser Service versteht sich natuerlich KOSTENLOS!

Sollte Ihre Webseite "non-public" - also nicht oeffentlich - betrieben werden, bitten wir um eine kurze formlose Bestaetigungsmail im Antwortmodus mit dem Betreff "NON-PUBLIC" damit wir Ihre Webseite somit nicht erfassen und Ihnen sowie Ihrer Webseite in solchem Fall keine unnoetigen Userzugriffe zumuten.

Wenn Sie unsere Email einfach unbeantwortet lassen, fuegen wir Ihre Internetpraesenz gerne in Kuerze manuell unserer Datenbank hinzu. Sollten Sie durch Zufall diese Email doppelt erhalten, liegt dies daran, dass wir ggf. mehrere durch Sie als Webmaster verwaltete Domains gleichzeitig in unserer Datenbank erfassen wollen. In solchem Fall bitten wir eine eventuelle Mehrfachmail zu entschuldigen.

ES FOLGT VON UNSERER SEITE KEINE WEITERE EMAIL!

Wir danken fuer Ihre Mithilfe und verbleiben mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Marc Kellershohn


Yippy Internet-Service Koeln
Lotharstrasse 40
50937 Koeln
www.yippy.de

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Subject: Inquiry, your URL with us take up to d|rfen

Very honoured Web master,

although partly uncommonly in the Internet, we would like to inquire by means of these email whether we may enter your Internet operational readiness level shortly in the volume of data of our international search machine. This service understands itself naturally FREE!

If your web page should be operated " non public " - thus not publicly -, we do not ask to enter and to you as well as your web page in such case no unnecessary user accesses zumuten your web page around a short informal Bestaetigungsmail in the response mode with the concern " NON PUBLIC " thereby we thus.

If you leave our email simply unanswered, we add your Internet operational readiness level gladly shortly manually our data base. If you should keep this email double by coincidence, this is because of the fact that we want to enter if necessary several at the same time by you as Web master administered Domains in our data base. In such case we ask to excuse a possible Mehrfachmail.

NO FURTHER EMAIL FOLLOWS FROM OUR PAGE!

We thank for your assistance and remain Yours sincerely,

Marc Kellershohn


Yippy Internet-Service Koeln
Lotharstrasse 40
50937 Koeln
www.yippy.de


posted by Wuphon's Reach at 3:05 PM

Monday, December 17, 2001

EverQuest - guild discussions on TNZ

Lots of topics that include the word 'guild' in the EverQuest TNZ discussion board (just some highlights):

Random guild invites. Why? - I've seen a lot of guilds trying to form in Greater Faydark in the past few weeks (you'll see silly stuff like /ooc Guild X forming, will pay 1pp to anyone who joins - nothing like bribing guild members and creating a guild of beggars).
Want in a guild?? - Random walk-ups asking to join the guild (we probably need a charter and a semblance of an application process guide).
What guilds do you admire the most on your server? - Perhaps someday our guild will make this listing...
"casual" players and guilds - someone looking for a 'casual' player's guild (ours is sort of a mix... we have nobody over level 40 that I've seen... Jarthak was level 40, but GNID'd).
Guilds are they really worth it? - unguilded player with questions about why it's worth being part of a guild
guilds - Why guilds stay together and why they fall apart (good topics for a charter/application process page).
guilds - How do I apply to guild X? Well, um, it varies...
GUILD ADVICE! - A very good discussion of how to choose a guild...
Guild Help - A player looking for a guild
Guild leaders(or officers) I need YOU! - Discussion of why not to start a guild if you've never been in one before (also pointers on why a more detailed charter is better than a less detailed charter).
A Question about Guilds - Keeping track of members, having a MIA list so we can confirm whether players are still in the guild.
guilds - more newbie questions about guilds

posted by Wuphon's Reach at 1:48 PM

More Amusing Google Searches

It's interesting to see what searches lead to my blog now... (reminder to self: time to start expanding the list of things that I blog about again). Anyway, here are some of the highlights. And of course, there's a very good Keep Trying blog entry about google vs blogs.

darla1972 - Guess another e-mail campaign started... (there are about 20 hits from someone searching on this term)

one-on-onechat - And I guess they're e-mailing again as well... (about 10 hits this week)

everquest high elves - looking for guildmates, mate?

everquest trilogy for newbies - hooray!

Pimsleur's Japanese mp3 - sigh, probably looking for warez

rent pimsleur cd spanish - or not... :)

ford focus twilight blue picture - yeah!

jvc kd-sh99 test - yup, I've got one of those

purchase kakebuton online - hehe, same question I had, where do you buy these?...

posted by Wuphon's Reach at 1:13 PM

More personals SPAM....

What is it? Where does it come from? Again, note the subtle (or not so subtle) social engineering at work... first setting them up as a 'innocent newbie', then the appeal to vanity (million replies) along with a little smiley face (oh how cute).

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From: jenny234unow@hotmail.com

Hi,

i got your reply a while ago but couldn't get up the nerve to go for it. well things haven't gotten any better with my situation so i figure i'll give it a try.

You probably got a million replies by now:-) Anyhow, just in case you have time to look at one more, I am interested. i got a picture and profile at a free site on the web, i used it becuase they let me post my xxx pics and it is a free site. take a look and let me know what you think.

I am on http://www.sneakymatch.com

My username there is SexyJenny just use the lookup user option Check me out, and let me know, and we can take it from there.

xoxox,
jenny

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Now onto the digging.... after about 3 screens that I had to click through you finally get to the hook. It's a AVS service that you have to sign up for (meaning another iffy company that will have your e-mail address or other personal information), and you have to supply a credit card for validation. (Um... isn't this supposed to be a free AVS system?) Ah, here we go, the fine print:

* All FREE trial subscriptions to PornKing, are free for the stated period of days, and then automatically billed at the stated monthly rate of $34.95 by CCBill.com unless you request cancellation. Even if you decide to cancel your FREE trial membership to PornKing, the FREE one year SexKey membership is yours to keep.

Anyone else think this is a real gal who's interested in going on a date with you? Anyone? Anyone? Congratulations, you're all getting smarter. I'm not even going to bother to dig into the DNS records for this one since the 'catch' is pretty obvious.

posted by Wuphon's Reach at 11:33 AM

Nicer blogger archive links?

Javascript for Blogger Archives - complete JavaScript listings for all sorts of different ways of printing out that list of weeks for your archive section.

posted by Wuphon's Reach at 11:25 AM

Sunday, December 16, 2001

Crawled by Google

Crawled by Google, Check. People finding it useful? Check.

I've gotten two inquiries so far this weeek about this particular entry from two random people: More Yahoo! Personals SPAM? I've removed any identifying information and am posting their e-mails here (mainly because I think it's really cool that I got e-mails about that article, if they object I'll take the e-mails back off).

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Those #$(#* Personal Adds
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 20:42:26 -0700

I saw your notes on getting spammed from www.one-on-onechat.com. As soon as I saw one, alarms and flags were flyin. Thanks for the confirmation. I had found allot of the same info you had and was interested in the domain registrant, etc., but you saved me the work.

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Subject: thanks man....

Hi Wuphon,
I found your site when i was trying to dig some chick that sent me a mail and wanted me to call to one-to-one. It sucks... I know it is a fake mail... and your note help a lots for confirmation....

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Subject: that stupid one-on-onechat.com!!!

Hey Wuphon,

Read you Wuphon's Reach URL. I got the same jenny234unow@hotmail.com email. What a waste! I also got an email from jnson00@hotmail.com (Jen Benson) with a link to http://www.one-on-onechat.com/105.html. Pretty good looking catalog model. Too bad it isn't a real personal otherwise I'd be all over that. Anyway this Rev. Vincent Angst Chewbacca person is going to be cooked.

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(and the e-mails keep popping into my mailbox...)

posted by Wuphon's Reach at 11:49 AM