I check my email this morning, and what do I find but some idiot has uploaded penis enlargement spam into the comments section of one of my posts (from October 2002, no less).
Comment deleted, IP banned. Don’t you morons have anything better to do?
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SuperToad has redesigned the Pond, giving up his home-baked PHP model for a site generated by PostNuke. At least this way, his PHP knowledge doesn’t go to waste.
Now if I could just talk him in to another font for his logo…
😉
iStockphoto saves the day for Eric. Though I haven’t had much use for it lately, I have been a registered member since late last year and think it’s a wonderful service.
I have even thought about contributing photos myself, though I don’t believe a majority of mine are at a high enough resolution to warrant inclusion.
(via Michael)
Kottke has the 411 and an open letter to certain news entities.
Ben and Mena’s latest venture is in the growing pain of going live, with a “Preview Release Launch” later tonight. Jon’s been a beta tester, as has Raena. The features are impressive, and the pricing is really, really good. It’s going to kick LiveJournal’s butt, and, unfortunately, may steal business from friends.
I have to agree with Raena in that I won’t be moving my blog over to the service, comfortable in rolling my own, and looking forward to MovableType Pro. I have a sysadmin at my beck and call (pretty much) who owns and runs the server my site is hosted on. If I get in to any kind of Unix-ey or web server-related trouble, Jim’s the man on getting it all fixed. Not to mention that we now have a nightly backup system in place, and Jim’s ‘net connection is a heckuva lot more stable, not to mention faster on the upload, than mine. Our “new” server went online over the weekend, and all of us type-A control freaks are happy with having the nuts and bolts so close.
So lots of luck to the Trotts & Co., and all you TypePadders present and future!
One of the great things about working on a publication like ATPM is that the diverse staff we have. Raena and I are on opposite sides of the political spectrum, but we’re friends because of our common interests in things Mac, blogging, and the Internet and technology in general.
Some time ago I was lamenting how IE6/Win wasn’t rendering the site properly when compared to browsers on the Mac. Raena speculated that the issues lay in my CSS, and offered to help. Earlier today, I took her up on her offer.
I’m pleased to report that the font and sidescroll issues have been fixed, and the site now looks the same (albeit without the pleasing antialiasing one gets from OS X) on IE6/Win as it does on Safari or Camino on the Mac. For those keeping score, it appears there are no more font issues with Firebird, either. I haven’t tried OmniWeb, Opera, or iCab yet. Best of all, the CSS validates.
So mucho gracias, Raena-Raena-bo-baena. If you make it to the States, and Dallas, I owe you a brew.
Jim has upgraded our server stat software to AWStats, and I am mightily impressed. I determined long ago that I would not become obsessed with traffic, and by and large, I haven’t. Mainly, this has been because I have avoided looking at any statistics any server analysis software installed might provide. Once I get over how wicked cool AWStats is, I’ll likely revert to this habit.
It is interesting to note that in 28 days of July, my site has moved 400 MB of bandwidth, twice as many people view the site on a Windows box than a Mac (surprising, considering the pro-Mac tone of my computing posts), and while, of course, IE is the browser used by most, Safari comes in second, and is used three times more than #3, Mozilla. Most people get to the site because they’ve bookmarked it, and for that, you have my thanks. The second way people get to the site….anyone? Anyone? Anyone?
The answer we’re looking for is Google. Google.
Two things AWStats shows (and according to Jim, our old stat software did the same; like I said, I rarely looked at it) that fascinate me: the most common search keywords and keyphrases used to hit the site; and what IP domains pages are being served to. I can honestly boast of having a worldwide readership, though by a tremendous margin, most of the traffic is, not surprisingly, from the U.S.
Australia is high on the list (thanks, Raena!), but I have served at least one page to the following: Slovenia, Malta, Argentina, Israel, Malaysia, Guatemala, Iceland, Slovak Republic, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, Greece, Poland, Libya, Algeria, Indonesia, Croatia, and the list goes on. I know, there just may be some simple router-hopping going on that returns those values, but it’s still fun to think about.
- Killed the “Retrolook” tab in the tab navigation bar
- Subsequently, killed the old style sheet and index2.html file; so now the look you see (if you’re not just reading with NNW) is the only look available. Until I decide to start skinning the site…
- Have begun conversion from .html files to .php. This will help streamline the amount of work I have to do, along with continued use of CSS, for the look and feel of the site. So if your bookmark for the main page is _http://www.retrophisch.com/index.html_, rather than just _http://www.retrophisch.com_, you’ll need to update with the latter.
- As part of this conversion, the Retrophisch Read(tm) page is now rendered via PHP as well and has the new site look. Other pages to follow.
- So far, it appears that the old archives have remained intact as .html files, as well as having .php peers. So everyone who has permalinked to me (Lee, Michael, Eric) shouldn’t have to re-link.
If you have linked to me, and you find the permalinks breaking, the quick and dirty fix is to replace “.html” in the link with “.php”. And my apologies if you have to do so; such is the price of progress.
The 9th Circuit actually gets it right this time, with an extension of libel protection to online self-publishers, like moi, and those who participate in online discussion lists.
The site will be going down for a bit this evening as we move the server. Should be back up some time after dinner time, CST.
UPDATE, 7:30 PM CST: And we’re back…
Thanks for the quick move, Jim. This was just a physical move for the current server, as prep for our move to a new box in the near future.