Friday, 9 May 2008

No time again and more scraping

Again this week I have not been able to find time to write a radio drama preview. I hope to be able to do another next week. The observant among you will have noticed on the front page of my website that I now describe myself as semi-retired rather than retired.

Last night my Meson chess problem database was crawled through (scraped) again by a robot program, this time from IP address 89.139.130.155, which is located somewhere in Israel. This time the perpetrator even managed to create 22MB of error messages on the server error log! This is the second time in less than a year that somebody has stolen my bandwidth and that could well cost me money. Any further incident will result in the database being taken offline until such time as I can get around to protecting my bandwidth from bandits.

All the data in the database is in the public domain. If anybody wants an extract of any of it, they should ask me.

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