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I'm Mike Pope. I live in the Seattle area. I've been a technical writer and editor for over 35 years. I'm interested in software, language, music, movies, books, motorcycles, travel, and ... well, lots of stuff.

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Dates
First entry - 6/27/2003
Most recent entry - 4/17/2025

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Posts - 2657
Comments - 2678
Hits - 2,737,578

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Entries/day - 0.33
Comments/entry - 1.01
Hits/day - 344

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  08:40 PM

I've been using SiteMeter to track usage statistics for the blog. I was just now playing around with Nikhil's Web Development Helper, and I noticed that among all the traffic generated by a request to the blog was a request to the specificlick.net site:



I guess I haven't been paying attention[1], so I hadn't seen this before. A little googling turned up a blog post that broke this story back in April and gives all the gory details (as of then, of course).

Anyway, I took the sitemeter tracker off, and that seems to have killed the specificclick request. However, there is probably a cookie for those weasels, which you might want to kill. And my apologies for inadvertently contributing to this vile practice.


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