Category: Website

Babies and Puppies: A Dangerously Cute Combination 8

Babies and Puppies: A Dangerously Cute Combination

We took these during Conference in April. You can check out more in the new photo album. Why don't you go take a look?

Movin' On Up (To the East Side!) 2

Movin' On Up (To the East Side!)

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...

The War on Spam is Over: I Won 7

The War on Spam is Over: I Won

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...

MySQL'd! (Ow, my web site!) 7

MySQL'd! (Ow, my web site!)

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...

Make Your Blog Not Suck 5

Make Your Blog Not Suck

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...

To Russia, Without Love 1

To Russia, Without Love

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...

New Website Features: Sociable, E-mail Obfuscator 1

New Website Features: Sociable, E-mail Obfuscator

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...

Anonymous Cowards and Blogs 5

Anonymous Cowards and Blogs

Since as far back as I can remember, Slashdot has allowed people to post anonymous comments on any entry. The catch is that they had their posts automatically knocked down a level and they were referred to as "Anonymous Coward"....

Yes, I blew up the website. 0

Yes, I blew up the website.

We had about an hour or so of downtime this morning as I made a small mistake when changing some server configuration. It's all fixed now. It all started because in the last 5 days, we've gotten well over 100...