Me looking through my apache logs is fascinating. You looking through your apache logs is obsessive navel gazing, so I’d appreciate it if you didn’t do it. Having established the boundaries of what is or isn’t fascinating, let’s see what we can deduce from the following entry:

cf.nhyoko.med.navy.mil - - [16/Aug/2003:21:56:26 +0100] “GET /james.lab6.com/2003/07/27/chemistry/ HTTP/1.0″ 200 4286 “http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=CHEMISTRY+SET&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-top” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)”

1. Someone in the US military read a page of this site.
2. They were in the U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka and Far East Dental Command.
3. Dental Command?!@~~
4. They use Yahoo search.
5. They use Windows 2000.
6. They use IE6 on Win2k.
7. They type in ALL CAPS.
8. They’re looking for info on CHEMISTRY SETS

The US military has more than ten thousand active nuclear weapons. That makes it my business whether they allow users like the above on their computers, on which it is also my business whether or not they run Microsoft consumer grade junk.

Update: It seems this is nothing out of the ordinary. Grepping logs for “.gov” is truly worrying. They’re looking for chemistry sets too! Obviously essential info for the social security department.