I managed to see the episode of Attack of the Show on G4TV that featured Mailinator. At the end, they briefly showed the spam map I created. Kinda cool/weird/funny to see a webpage/code that I wrote on TV. I swear I’ll stop talking about the map soon.
If you can see this, MVP has made it to the new (real, hosted) server! If you fnd anything on the site that doesn’t work, let me know….PLEASE!
UPDATE:As of 2:00 today, it is up and running on the new server! Should be much faster and more responsive now.
From a friend (thanks Byron!):
“I watch a show on G4TV from time to time called Attack of the Show. One of the most irritating things about the show is that they have at least 2 segments every day that are complete regurgitations of slashdot. The good news for you is that yesterday the lead story was obviously inspired by the slashdot posting, but they chose to obsess on the usefulness of mailinator instead of the actual post – either way they did navigate to your map hack page on the show. Welcome to TV celebrity!”
Here is the AOTS blog post on it.
Wow – crazy week. Yesterday, the Mailinator spam map I did was slashdotted and mentioned on MAKE. This morning my old post about the 1977 computer-centric board game I found at a thrift store has been featured on the MAKE blog! Welcome all MAKE readers (Hi Wil!)!
Yes, Tailinator, not Mailinator. It’s weird how things happen. I went to news.google.com and searched for mailinator. It said “Did you mean: tailinator ?”. I clicked it – wondering what tailinator is and it gave NO results which I thought was weird – why would it suggest it if it gave zero hits? So I Searched Google for tailinator and it turns out it is a really good freeware log file tailer for Windows! I need one of those!
I played with it a bit today and it works great! It’s basic, but does the job nicely – it can open mutiple files in tabs, flashes when a file has changed, you can choose to load the whole file or just the last X bytes, and it can autoload a log or logs at startup. Tailinator seems to have no website listed in it and I can’t find its “home on the web”, but you can find it if you just search google for tailinator. So, a search for Mailinator gets me a log monitoring utility called Tailinator.