July 2007
to December 2007

June 2007

May 2007

April 2007

March 2007

February 2007

January 2007

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If I modify a blog a few hours or later after the end of the day (midnight) then I try to post the date and nature of the changes usually noted at the end of the blog. If there are any significant changes to the blogs at any time I try to note the changes in the blog but there are few significant modifications to the blogs. And I don't recall any significant changes in content to the blogs that haven't been noted.

The exception to noting changes is I sometimes don't list spelling and grammar corrections. But I try to avoid editing any of the blogs in order to keep them in their original state. Blogs are often titled "Comments" in the entries.

The Introduction as a Blog

As for this introduction there are no specific dates given for changes made to it. And not all the changes to the intro are noted. But changes to the intro mostly involve what's included in the web activity logs. Such as if incoming business emails are included in web logs, which is covered on the home page.

Use of web activity loggers
and other web logging methods

Editing Web Logs

I use a web activity logger to record my web use at my home, the condo. The only time I edit web activity logs generated by the HsLab Logger or any other web logger is to remove my real name. This is to help prevent privacy violations that may arise from anything on this site. I would rather not edit the HsLab logs for any reason. I don't want the appearance of changing the nature of my activity recorded in the web logs.

But the web actvity logs from 18 Apr 08 to 28 Apr were removed because they contained web addresses of porn sites. I don't want the site to be an adult site if it is ever advertised to the public. I didn't post in the individual entries of those eleven days that I removed the web activity logs. I'm noting their removal here and elsewhere on this page and on the home page. The comments are still there for the nine days of the eleven that had comments (blogs.)

And on the Records of My Web Activity page, I removed the red colored note in each entry that said the HsLab logger is edited only to remove my name. I say the same thing above and have already noted I removed the weblogs with the porn addresses.

The web logs I've manually typed may have been edited to correct web addresses and spelling errors the day they were posted and sometimes in later days when errors were found. But no web addresses in them have been corrected more than a week after posting them as far as I know.

I don't edit my logger generated web activity logs after they are posted except if I left in my real name by mistake. In which case I say so in a blog and give the date of the editing. I make a note of when I remove my name accidentally left in blogs or manually made web logs too.

If I accidentally leave in web addresses of sites with personal info of me or someone I know closely then I remove the web log if it's from a web logger. Again I don't post any logger generated web logs with the web addresses removed or altered. And I can't leave up any logs with my personal info because it may wind up violating your guys' privacy or that of others.

The html files for entries earlier than 27 Jun 07 are dated much later only because their archive indexes have been updated. But the web activity logs and blogs for those entries haven't been significantly changed. And if a web log file got corrupted on Yahoo Geocities, the host for this website, then the date of the file may change if I had to re-send the file.

And speaking of Yahoo Geocities (www.Geocities.com), I have to go to that site when I post web logs and other info on the All You Guys site. But sometimes Geocities won't be seen at the end of the HsLab web log for the last post of the day because I often get the web log ready to send before signing on to Geocities. Not a big deal. But I try to remember to go to Geocities before saving the web log for its transfer to the Geocities servers.

Of course any web activity prior to logging on to Geocities should be in the web log before making the last post of the day to this site. The last post of the day is made at or before midnight. And the next day's postings start after midnight PST.

After an update to this site is sent online I sometimes view the site to check that the logs and and other updates were sent correctly. But most of the time I don't record that I've viewed the site in that case, if it's the last entry of the day, because the web log has already been sent. I suppose I could record my last viewing of this site at the beginning of the next web log. Or get technical help on how to deal with it. But it's a detail that's not very important in my view. So take it for granted it's not recorded when I view this site right after sending updates for the last entry of the day if no changes are needed after viewing it.

It may appear hypocritical to fuss over not recording when I last veiwed this site considering I removed those eleven days of weblogs containing the porn site addresses. But it was done to avoid having to make this an adults only site to enter. And besides as I mentioned before on the home page there are other times when I went to porn sites that aren't recorded on this site. That's about a few weeks worth of porn viewing in 2007 and 2008.

Names in HsLab Logger

Unfortunately I haven't figured out a way to suppress my name from appearing in the HsLab logs. But it's the best web logger I can find. So I'll edit out only my name from the logs. My real name normally appears under the User section of a HsLab web log but it appears blank in the posted logs. My name showing in HsLab Logger and the thought of having to edit its web logs to remove my name is why I put off using it at home in late 2007 to March 2008 because of the privacy issues already mentioned.

OS Activity

As noted in blogs in 2007, the Hslab Logger also records some operating system activity. So you guys get to see me manuevering around on my desktop and folders, printng, opening files and so on. You guys can see that anyway in your own monitoring which by the way provides a verification to the accuracy of the net logs I post from web loggers. Making yours public is up to you guys.

Issues with Manually Created Web Logs

But the manually created web logs as I've mentioned are not very complete. It's too time consuming to key in all the sites visited. This applies to my web use at public PCs. The browser histories on public PCs are not accessible from my experience as noted elsewhere in the introduction. Sometimes the manually made web logs are incorporated into a blog rather than listed separately in a web activity log.

"Beta Testing" Issues with the Web Logger

I'm trying not to use the HsLab web logger when visiting my art websites or any websites that have my real name or personal info of people associated with me. It also helps reduce the amount of editing of the HsLab logs to remove my name. That doesn't mean there will be a ton of sites of associates I visit that won't be recorded here. I'll try to make a note in the blogs of the nature of those sites but not the web addresses. So using the web logger at home is a sort of beta testing procedure trying to not record any sites with the personal information.

So sometimes I may forget to turn off the logger when going to those sites. That means I can't post the web log in that case as mentioned earlier. I'm not going edit anything more than my name from logs made by a web logger. I'm trying to see if there's a way to have the logger automatically turn off when I go to my personal websites or associates' sites. Until then there may be some days with no web logs posted from the web logger or my browser history. And my manually entered web logs are spotty at best. It's hard and impractical to manually create a complete web log.

What, Me Worry?

I simply don't have very many associates so it's not likely I'll even have to mention in the blogs that I've been to friends' sites displaying personal info. What am I worried about anyway as far as getting any such sites recorded somewhere? You guys would record them in the first place or get them from ATT, my ISP.

Web Logger Use on Public PCs

In 2007 Congress was working on passing a law making it illegal to install web loggers (spyware) without getting permission from the computer's owner. It was legal for me to use web loggers to monitor my own net use on public computers at the time in 2007. The loggers I used and the one I use now are not key loggers but they record websites visited and OS activity. So I stopped using web loggers to record by net activity on public computers as of 7 Jun 07.

Manually Created Web Logs on Public PCs

After 7 Jun 07 at public PCs I've been manually recording urls I visit. But that method isn't practical to record all the sites I go to because it's too much work to copy all the web addresses and paste them into a text file or key them in. And access to browser history is usually disabled on public PCs as noted earlier. And I don't have the technical knowledge to record the web activity in an automated or fast way without using a logger. But I try to manually record the urls for most home pages of sites I visit at public PCs. That's what I did for the first couple of months of this website in 2006 and I was doing that as late as February 2008 at home.

Legality of Using Web Loggers at Colleges

Installing programs on public libraries is probably against the libraries' rules. But students and other users are frequently installing music and video players on the public PCs if the programs are not blocked. And libraries generally don't kick out the people doing this even though it's against the rules. The libraries are not enforcing some of their rules as far as asking people to leave the library for installing programs.

So when I used the web loggers at the univerisity libraries in 2007 it was in the same category as all the other students' intallation of small programs on the PCs. As noted above it wasn't illegal at the time in 2007 but the libraries can block their use or ask rule breakers to leave. Of course you guys are not investigating me for that. And as I noted before in a blog on this site it must make you guys seething mad to see me here going on about something like installing a logger on a public PC in comparison to the reason for your surveillance. And if you guys make all this public then you will have to contend with people who may like this site and appreciate its attention to detail, giving it much more popularity if it comes into public limelight.

Date Conventions

The date naming convention in the HsLab Logger is different than the one on this site's web logs. The HsLab Logger has the month followed by the day and year as in 3/12/2008 which means March 12, 2008. But this site almost always has it as day, month, year as in 12 Mar 08 with the month abbreviated and the year shortened.