I’ve been trying to clean up this blog: deleting old pages that aren’t contributing to the site, inactivating and deleting old plugins that are no longer needed (or that I can live without), … etc. I think the hardest part is trying to figure out why I needed some plugins. One is RunPHP. I know I *had* to have it at one point but honestly do not remember if it’s still in use … so I’m currently investigating that one. I may just end up deactivating and waiting a week or so to make sure nothing breaks before deleting it entirely from my Plugins directory.
So if you see something broken … please let me know. Chances are, it’s probably be something I shouldn’t have fiddled with!
In the meantime, I was commenting on Devilish Southern Belle’s blog and noticed a link to Lucia’s Linky Love. It’s a souped up ‘no follow’ plugin for WordPress that has other “do-gooder” functions, like kicking trackback spam to the curb. YAY! I’ll most likely dump Denis de Bernardy’s Dofollow for it. (Sorry, Denis!)
DSB also uses Feedjit. I had kept meaning to check it out, but couldn’t remember the URL once I sat down to research … so, now I got it again. Heh.
LOL it up!
And something totally un-related to this: ICHC LOLcats will now be appearing on Jones Soda bottles. I’ll have to buy some just to get the “LOL-bottles”!!!
I got my first sales/telemarketer call on my cell last night. It was a local number, but Google searches have turned up empty. I didn’t answer it because I didn’t recognize the number. The caller left a 6 minute message touting life insurance quotes for whatever company for whom he was calling — six freakin’ minutes!
Geez, buddy, if you can’t sum it up in 2 minutes or less, you’ve lost my interest.
Lucky for him I guess that I didn’t answer … I get pretty ugly if a caller is pushy or won’t take “No, thank you” for an answer.
I would like to know how they got that number though, as only a handful of people have it.
I’ve often heard it said that those who are high up in book smarts have no common sense. I see this theory in practice almost every single day. For instance, a particular multi-PhD/MD user came to my department wanting to know how a spammer could use her email address without her permission. Now, I only overheard part of the conversation between this user and one of our techs, but apparently she had received a recent increase of spam (who hasn’t these days?) and one alarmed her because it had the name “Logo Pens” with her email address in the Reply-To field.
Honestly, wouldn’t *most* people who had enough common sense know NOT to open such blatant spams???
So anyways, this genius decided to open it and replied wanting to know who this person was and what they were doing with her email. (Yes, I know, I know … bad user! No cookie for you!) Imagine her astonishment when her reply instantly appeared in her Inbox. After that point, she came to us naturally wanting to know how to make spammers stop using her address when they send stuff out.
I had to leave the room to keep from laughing in front of her.
I think the domain shuffle is pretty much through. I moved over the bulk of my domains last night and dropped 4 today. There may be the odd missing image or directory here or there, but I think I’ve covered about 98% of the site. You may also notice a change on the front page. I have removed my Firefox Extension Development page link from the navigation menu and added my Fanlistings. I doubt I will be continuing the development on the extensions I’ve done in the past, as I’m no longer involved in those projects. I may decide to start new ones in the 3.0 format later, but simply don’t have the time (or interest) to do it now.
Also, I have rearranged the sidebar a bit. Hopefully the recently blogged items are more visible now. (sorry ’bout that Jo! :)) I’ve also added a couple new collapsing sections, the newest being Local Link Love which features metro-area sites and organizations of which I’m involved, or have discussed here previously. Feel free to take a peek and stretch out a bit.
There are several new interests I’ve been wanting to add in for a while, so hopefully I’ll have time to make those modifications soon. Also, I will be working on my portfolio more, taking off older works and adding some newer ones. It needs re-structuring horribly, and hopefully Zooomr will be done with their move next week (so most of my images will start working again, LOL!). In the meantime I’m making short notes of what needs updating — while surfing the web looking for an appreciation gift for Jessie’s teacher. (funny there’s a whole slew of teacher gifts sites, or with teacher gift ideas in general)
Right now I’m wishing I hadn’t cleaned out the spams caught by Akismet because I ran across this nifty suggestion for handling splogs (spam blogs). Considering I get a ton of trackbacks from the same 8 or 10 or so, it won’t be long until I add a bit o’ code to the ole HTACCESS file to take care of ‘em!
It seems the search and spam bots are showing my site a lot of love lately. I’ve noticed several “obvious” search results in my Search Meter logs: viagra, phentermine, tramadol, “buy hydrocodone,” home furniture, etc. — and who could forget the exploit bots, LOL
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Give it up, fellas. Wrong blog software, dummies. Don’t you read headers?
Of course not all of my searches are by bots. I can usually tell by IPs if it’s someone I know and it’s interesting to see what people search for.
I’ve recently seen a few searches by (who I suspect) are my ex’s associates searching for any mention of him in my archives.
Like I’d be stupid enough to post his real name. Gimme a freakin’ break.
(Yes, I know, I know … bad user! No cookie for you!) Imagine her astonishment when her reply instantly appeared in her Inbox. After that point, she came to us naturally wanting to know how to make spammers stop using her address when they send stuff out.
