The beer at "The Joiners" is very nice. I've been telling everyone that it never gives me a headache. Thing is, I never usually get to drink more than a couple because I'm always driving.

Woke up this morning with a headache!

Checked my email this morning and found something that appeared to get through my sphisticated spam blocker.

Relayed through an open relay in .ru, it tells me to link to them so that they may link to me. The site seems innocuous (it's about motorcycle travel stories) so I will.

Ed's Motorcycle Travel stories

Thing is why relay through an open relay in .ru?

Watch this space and I'll keep you posted.

OK... clicked the link to add my details and got 80.68.242.72 - - [13/Sep/2003:09:48:10 +0100] "GET /~tim/ HTTP/1.0" 200 19924 "-" "-" in my apache log.

A reverse lookup gives, zox.rbc.ru. Odd, considering the site is about bikeriding in the States!

A whois gives us RosBusinessConsulting corporate network. In Russia!

Now... Th is link appears as a referrer in apache's logfile. Click it and if you are not logged into Hotmail, you'll get a Hotmail advert at the top of the page telling you so.

Curiouser and curiouser.