Too Busy For Words - the PaulWay Blog

What is BeijingCrawler, who wrote it, and what is it doing looking at my webserver?

Does the book "Virtual Nation - The Internet In Australia" cover Telstra's overpricing, market gouging, rate limiting and continued anti-competitive behaviour? Does it talk about why Telstra is deliberately holding back on bandwidth improvements and Fibre To The Node in order to benefit its own bank balance?

Does Amazon realise that their "Sponsored Links" are the most irrelevant, stupid avertising tripe ever?

I've got a paper, or even two, to present at LCA, but I don't have any practice at writing up abstracts or things like that. The project in question is intended to be Open Source, probably licensed similar to Perl as most Perl modules are. It's up and running in production mode but a lot of the administration features are still relatively scanty, as is the installation process (since it's evolved from scratch). So how much of this kind of work do I have to do before it's ready to even submit as a paper?

How egotistical and rude is it to have given a talk for the last two CLUG meetings, be running the next CLUG meeting, and want to give a talk about my new programming projects at the Programming SIG?

Is going on a $2200 three-day PostgreSQL course going to teach me much more or give me some kind of qualifications that I can put on my resume? Is that even worth it?

*sigh*