December 22, 2004

Now everybody will know about IP addresses

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As all news-junkies will know, the press is reporting that: "Police zeroed in on Lisa Montgomery [by] tracing an IP address, 65.150.168.223, to a computer at her Melvern, Kan., home." Which reminds me of a recent trip to California....

I was at San Jose airport, en route for Boston, and I was wearing my favourite ThinkGeek t-shirt: the one that says "There's no place like 127.0.0.1". As I was waiting in line at Starbucks, a PHB type walked past, read my shirt, and said, "Hey, that's cool. Is that the IP address of your website?" And since I have no shame, I replied with a straight face, "Yes it is. And it's the address of your website... and his (pointing), and hers (pointing), and Yahoo!, and...." And I walked up and ordered my usual quadruple espresso macchiato, leaving the poor guy looking terminally confused.

(Via BoingBoing.)

Posted by geoff2 at December 22, 2004 12:32 AM
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ROF,L!

this post makes me want to click my ruby red slippers together, and cry out for Toto.

-g

Posted by: Gene Bob at December 22, 2004 02:35 PM
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