I got an e-mail yesterday from someone asking to place an advertisement on our website. They were offering $25 to display the ad for a not-yet-discussed length of time. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about that either. I'm certainly not a professional blogger like Dooce, so I don't intend to make fat sacks […]
Filed under: Website on May 4th, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Welcome to the upgraded website! We're now running off of the fine folks at SliceHost (who, by-the-by, rock) on a fresh upgrade of WordPress 2.1.3. All of the plugins are up-to-date, but please let us know if something seems horrendously broken. While it took all of 30 seconds for the updated DNS entries to […]
Filed under: Website on May 3rd, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Server migration. The words strike fear of the unknown in the hearts of the non-technical and fear of the known into the hearts of geeks like me. So far, I've only moved mail services and one of the websites to the new server (which, by the way, totally rocks). Moving this site, our main blog, […]
Filed under: Geek, Website on April 18th, 2007 | No Comments »
1,597 unique visitors. 3,442 distinct visits. 10,484 pages served with 34,860 hits consuming 2.23GB of traffic. And that's just last month.
What does this all mean? It means we're outgrowing our cable modem connection and need to move to new digs. That traffic doesn't include Shauna or I checking in on the website, traffic by […]
Filed under: Geek, Website on April 6th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Oh yes, it's true. I'm declaring victory over spam. After years of Viagra ads in my inbox and torrents of spam comments hitting our website, I've finally rid myself of dealing with the vast majority of the spam I have to deal with. How did I beat the spammers? How is it that I deal […]
Filed under: Geek, Website on January 12th, 2007 | 7 Comments »
One of the first things I do when I'm all ready to go is jump on our website to check for comments that are awaiting approval. Imagine my surprise when I got up this morning and found that it wasn't responding. So I try to login to it and it times out. Uh oh. Panic […]
Filed under: Geek, Website on December 15th, 2006 | 7 Comments »
I'm always on the lookout for articles on blogging with tips and tricks for keeping things interesting. It seems like the biggest problems are infrequent or irregular updating or the so-called "noodle posts" where you describe your entire day in painstaking detail. (I've done some noodle posts. I'm sorry!) After a bunch of reading, I […]
Filed under: Geek, Website on December 7th, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Due to the immense volume of spam from that country, I have permanently banned all access to our website from Russia. This isn't something I take lightly, but I'm getting sick of filtering through all of the junk and having them eat up bandwidth. The new rule is spammers get blocked.
Filed under: Website on November 9th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Most of you probably noticed the Digg This button that shows up a few days ago and now notice that it's been replaced with a bunch of little icons. They represent various social bookmarking websites where you can share blog posts or other web pages that you like. There will, in the future, also […]
Filed under: Geek, Website on November 4th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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