Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category
Upgrade in progress, don’t panic
I decided to upgrade WordPress to the latest given how absolutely ancient my old version was. No telling what security holes were in there. Things will necessarily be ugly for quite a while, but you can’t make progress without breaking a few eggs.
If you can’t get them in with content. . .
My site statistics are, frankly, insane. Of the 5.8 million hits I’ve received since May of last year, a staggering 16% of visitors arrive to see my Xbox 360 FAQ. Coming in a distant second is the Photography category because people want to download one of my high res wallpapers. Then there’s a smattering of [...]
Open the commenting floodgates?
Apparently the spam hammer isn’t being felt solely by me. That’s heartening. I don’t want to turn off comments but neither do I want to have to try to find a better host than I already have, especially as I wouldn’t be able to do much differently. One thing that I noticed after I had [...]
I’m out of the comment taking business
It’s been a good run. Since I started this blog I’ve received 4408 comments. I value them highly and am glad for every single one of them. Sadly, there will not be a 4409th comment. I’m throwing in the towel. Spammers, you’ve succeeded. I’m finished, I quit, I give up. I’ve fought against you valiantly, [...]
A Non-Spam Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers! I hope you are amongst friends and family and that it’s a day of rest and peace for you all. We’re spending a quiet day with my Mom, cooking turkey and just relaxing. We’re not the kind to spend the entire day in the kitchen — it’s happened in [...]
Spam Karma 2 and mod-security?
I’ve used Spam Karma 2 on this blog forever, as it’s an effective and glorious piece of software that does its job well, as evidenced by the ~90,000 comment spams eaten. It’s elegantly designed unlike most of my plugins, and actually built to be extended by others with its plugin architecture. I’ve been playing around [...]
Htaccess redirection for timestamp changes
I’ve talked before about .htaccess and the hotness that is mod_rewrite for various purposes. Permalink conversion from Movable Type to WordPress. Killing referral spam. Another adjustment to the referrer spam killing. I ran across another one today that I hadn’t dealt with and figured it was worth discussing. I updated an old post with some new material. That in [...]
Screw DreamHost
Bye DreamHost. One too many “you’re using too many server resources, how about investigating before we shut off your account?” emails. Now I’m with A Small Orange, which supposedly is much better. We’ll see, but so far I’m impressed with their support. I asked for SSH access and got a response within about 5 minutes. I’m [...]
