I was looking for some info on PHP session timouts, and scanning google for information on the gc_maxlifetime variable in PHP, when I came across some weirdness. Try this search: http://www.google.ca/search?q=1440+php+maxlifetime&btnG=Search&hl=en

If you see what I saw, you’ll get this:

We’re sorry…

… but we can’t process your request right now. A computer virus or spyware application is sending us automated requests, and it appears that your computer or network has been infected.

We’ll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your computer is free of viruses and other spurious software.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we’ll see you again on Google.

What’s going on here? All other queries work fine.

Update:
It seems to be caused when you use the second “search” box that shows up at the bottom of the page after you’ve searched for something else. Try searching for “test” or whatever, then entering “1440 php maxlifetime” into the bottom search box. Seems to be reproducible.

Updated update:You can use just “1440 php” in the bottom box and get the error. No other combination of those words seems to produce it, and “maxlifetime” seems to be irrelevant.

That might explain this. (Or maybe he was just on vacation!)

Couple of things. First, I successfully tested for 5th kyu in aikido this evening. It’s about time, since I’ve been studying for a year and a half now.:-P

Secondly – if your ass jiggles uncontrollably when you walk, please avoid wearing stretchy pants of any sort. This applies irrespective of gender, but women seem to be guilty more often than men. That is all. Thank you.

Since last night, I’ve noticed that whenever I try to access a cached version of a site on Google, I’m getting an error saying that the “cache:” search “did not match any documents.” An odd few seem to work, but the majority are broken. Am I the only one?

For a few residents of a small Connecticut town, the land of the free doesn’t seem quite so free any more.

With the backing of the so-called “eminent domain” doctrine, the town of New London has decided to confiscate property from landowners near the Thames River. This would be less odious if it were for some public good, like a badly needed water purification system because everyone would otherwise die of thirst (to pick an example completely at random).

But no, the real reason:

…to clear the way for a private development project that would include a hotel, a conference center and offices. The city has argued that redeveloping 90 acres along the river and near a new Pfizer research plant would give a much-needed economic boost to the city of about 26,000 people, where the unemployment rate of 7.6% is about twice the state’s rate…

To reduce down to the essentials, private citizens are having their homes confiscated by the government in favor of corporations.

All arguments about the benefit to the town aside, this is completely unfair to the people being expelled from their homes – some “generations old” – and undoubtedly the corporate developments will gain much more out of this than the people of New London, who will have no ownership of the new developments. Smells like economic fascism to me.

I was checking my mail earlier today and I picked up an advertisement for Bell Canada’s DSL service. One of the key features was “Parental Control” – the filters that block supposedly inappropriate content from your “kids.”

Of course, no such advertisement should be without an example of the type of inappropriate content blocked. You can see for yourself at adrants – it’s the female body.

Other people have made note that this is a textbook and adrants suggests that Bell is saying education is bad. While I agree that there is this connotation, I find myself astounded that the female body would be used as an example of “inappropriate content.” C’mon people, this is not Taliban-run Afghanistan.

Now, I’m anti-censorship in any form, but it seems to me that a more suitable example of inappropriate content for children might be Neo-nazi propoganda sites, if you must have censorship. But it’s just like a major corporation to bash women – the latest statistics say that corporations still don’t have that glass ceiling problem solved yet. Way to go, morons.

Obviously Spain builds better skyscrapers than the USA [WTC 7 anyone?]