Jan 26, 2006 9:15 PM

How sexy is your IP?

Breezing through my email on my way to a phone interview, I saw this: IP Spotting My IP address isn’t very sexy, but then, I’m not in my world headquarters today, so I can’t tell what my usual IP looks like. Randomly selected IP address as bitmap (Hershey’s kiss, anyone?):

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Breezing through my email on my way to a phone interview, I saw this:

IP Spotting

My IP address isn't very sexy, but then, I'm not in my world headquarters today, so I can't tell what my usual IP looks like.

Randomly selected IP address as bitmap (Hershey's kiss, anyone?):

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