Anonymity, where art thou?

I checked our server logs today. I do this every couple of weeks to make sure traffic is healthy and nothing is going awry on our sites.

Anyway, was checking out the logs, and see that my wedding site was getting a lot of hits last night and today. This is unusual as the wedding was a couple of years ago. So I took a look at the raw logs, found the IP that was doing the hitting, and checked it out on geobytes.com's sweet IP tracking/mapping app.

Well, the IP address maps to a certain location near Cleveland. Now I know of someone who has family near there. So I look up their family name in Whitepages.com. Yup there they are.

So now I have a map of the address of where the IP is coming from, I pop in the address from whitepages into google maps, and a new map pops up. Lo and behold, the map is identical to the IP map. To make matters even better, I switch to satellite view in google maps, and I am now looking at the house of the person that has been hitting my site! Wowza!

5 minutes, a little knowledge, and anonymity is completely out the window.

So to the person that was checking everything out: I'm glad you're well. We think of you often. And I'm excited about everything I've heard regarding you're life since we last spoke. Rather than checking out my outdated wedding site, send me an e-mail. I'd love to hear how you are.

Ace