{"id":263,"date":"2006-04-03T07:24:28","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T15:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2008-06-22T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T17:27:21","slug":"the-glory-that-is-the-interweb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"The Glory That Is The Interweb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would you believe I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/filtersweep.shackspace.com\/58988662.html\">this<\/a> whilst looking for a real-time W3SVC traffic log analyzer for IIS 5\/Windows XP? Not, I hasten to add, as an actual return from a search engine in response to my query about log readers, but as an incidental post on a coding blog that <em>was<\/em> a return on that query.<\/p>\n<p>The stream-of-consciousness nature of the &#8216;Net can at times make me fear for the future of Western technological society. It reminds me of a statement in the front of a number of recent books by noted literary weirdo <a href=\"http:\/\/harlanellison.com\/home.htm\">Harlan Ellison<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>IT SHOULD BE NOTED: THE AUTHOR DOES NOT HAVE A COMPUTER. THE AUTHOR DOES NOT HAVE A MODEM. THE AUTHOR IS NOT ONLINE. THE AUTHOR WORKS ON A REAL, ACTUAL FINGER-DRIVEN MANUAL TYPEWRITER, NOT EVEN AN ELECTRIC ONE. THE AUTHOR IS NOT A LUDDITE, HE JUST PERCEIVES OF ALL THIS ELECTRONIC CRAP AS<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>THE TWILIGHT OF THE WORD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Obviously I don&#8217;t fully agree with Mr. Ellison&#8217;s assertion (if the method by which you accessed this particular diatribe didn&#8217;t tip you off), but I have to say that the linear narrative seems to be under assault by the tyranny of the hyperlink.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I have yet to find the log reader for which I originally went online. Frankly, I&#8217;m a little afraid to return to my search. Anyone know of a nice utility for monitoring incoming http traffic in real time on an IIS box?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you believe I came across this whilst looking for a real-time W3SVC traffic log analyzer for IIS 5\/Windows XP? Not, I hasten to add, as an actual return from a search engine in response to my query about log readers, but as an incidental post on a coding blog that was a return on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}