Find cheap gas
May172005
What do you get if you combine Google Maps and GasBuddy? CheapGas. (via: Make)
Blog Archives
Reinvigorate me
May162005
In less than 90 minutes, reinvigorate.net will start accepting signups for the closed beta soft re-launch of their web site stats system. On the one hand, I don’t obsess too much over my stats. But I do like keeping a finger on the pulse of my site. I want to know if my readership is waxing or waning. I want to know what my most popular posts are. I want to know where my hits … Continue reading
Google Sightseeing
May112005
Google Sightseeing is an index of interesting sites (sights?) around the world, as seen by the satellites that Google Maps uses. For example, places like The Grand Canyon, Niagra Falls, or the St. Louis Arch. Oh yeah, and did I mention that the site is running WordPress?
WordPress 1.5.1 Released
May092005
Hot off the presses is the release of WordPress 1.5.1. There is a Changelog available on the Codex which gives some highlights, a full list of submitted bugfixes on the mosquito bug tracker, and even more pedantic changeset details in the repository. Here are some of the main new features/fixes that matter to me: Database query optimizations Improved Conditional GET support (I lobbied a lot for this) Fixes for plugin menu hooks Admin UI improvements … Continue reading
SpamValve update
May062005
I’ve been pretty busy at work, so I haven’t done much more work on my auto-firewall code in the past couple of days. But it seems to be holding its own pretty well. Normally, over the course of a few days, my comments database accumulates a couple thousand spams (I check it using Chris Davis’ Spam Nuke plugin). But since activating my new system, the spam comments are down to a trickle, maybe 10% of … Continue reading
Server moved
May052005
Last night, my host finally relocated my server (as previously mentioned). The move occurred around 3am EDT. For some reason, apache didn’t automatically restart when the machine came back up, and I had to start it manually this morning. So the web site was down for about 6 hours. Also, DNS has changed, so if you were still unable to reach this site after about 9am EDT today, it was probably a DNS propogation issue.
Testing a new spam blocker
May032005
I’ve been trying to snatch a few minutes here and there to work on the automated spam blocking system that I proposed last week. Earlier today, I finished up one of the components, and I’m currently testing it. It seems to be performing as designed, so far. There are three pieces to the system, currently: ipupdate: A perl script which accepts an IP number as an argument. When run, it checks whether the IP already … Continue reading
URL ABCs
Apr292005
Feeding the meme… These are my URL ABCs: A is for airbagindustries.com B is for blo.gs – and Bookmarks C is for cameronmoll.com D is for dougal.gunters.org – me me me me me! E is for easy-designs.net/articles/replaceSelect F is for feedmarker.com – like del.icio.us + feeds G is for google.com – Duh. H is for halr9000.com I is for intertwingly.net/blog – what a great word. J is for jeremy.zawodny.com/blog – just some Yahoo! out west … Continue reading
Spammers should all DIE DIE DIE
Apr272005
I am so sick of the damn spammers. Spammers are teh sux0r. Spammers are a festering boil on the ass of the Internets. I wouldn’t let a spammer kiss my butt with a pair of wax lips from ten feet away. If I ever see a spammer bleeding in a ditch, I will not be a Good Samaritan, I will kick him in the head, cover him up with dirt, and leave him there to … Continue reading
Server move
Apr252005
I’ve been informed that my host server will be relocated later tonight. So if you find that you can’t access the site for a while, that’s probably why. This will not be a migration to new hardware as mentioned previously, just a physical move of the existing hardware to a new location. Update: It looks like the move didn’t happen last night after all. So just be warned that the site could go down at … Continue reading