December 19, 2007
You Can't Fool Me!
I was curious about a comment left on my blog in response to my post congratulating New Jersey for being such a great state for eliminating the death penalty.
It wouldn't have intrigued me so much except that it appeared just a few hours after I made the post, which implied that it was from someone who was a regular reader (I don't have many of those), rather than someone who found the blog through a search engine or link from some other site.
So I decided to check the logs.
I noticed right away that it was indeed someone who came directly to my blog's main page, as there was no referrer entry, so presumably he has a bookmark to my blog. His ISP is Verizon, and he's running Firefox 2.0 on a Windows PC.
He came to the site at about 9:50pm, and within 25 seconds clicked on the link to add a comment, indicating a fairly spontaneous and maybe even impulsive act. Then he took nearly 20 minutes to compose his message, at which point he posted it. His post was rejected; I'm guessing because he didn't include an email address. He fixed that (probably with a bogus address) and then double-clicked the Post button, which resulted in two identical comments (I later deleted one of them).
Then he returned the following morning at 6:26am to check his comment, perhaps see if it had gotten any responses.
The comment is quite idiotic, but it is carefully composed in reasonably literate English, and it seems designed more to provoke than to make a coherent point. It is signed "Jesus", another indication that it was designed to be provocative.
So when you add them all together, I can think of only one person who fits the profile. He's a former co-worker of mine.
Ed Hagan, you've been outed!
Posted by jt at December 19, 2007 10:43 AM