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October 13th, 2005, by Rich, in Website, WordPress.
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A special trans-global thanks to Murky who pinged me from NZ a few moments ago after noticing that this site was spitting out SQL errors (instead of gracefully presenting pages full of useful content). The outage was caused by a large file that was taking up the temporary space that our content management database needs to function properly. Everything is back to normal now. Ta Murky.
September 17th, 2005, by Rich, in Security, Society, Spam, WordPress.
Hopefully I just spoiled a spammer’s whole week. How? I bought the domain that he’s trying to promote (MyNiceMailAt.com) before he did. More…
August 17th, 2005, by Rich, in WordPress.
Yesterday I began to realize that WordPress (the software that manages the content you are reading now) might not be able to do something we need on this site: the capability to record and communicate that several people have authored an article. More…
August 5th, 2005, by Rich, in Releases, WordPress.
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I’ve just made a small update to the MostWanted plugin that solves an output validity issue. More…
June 10th, 2005, by Rich, in Spam, WordPress.
Referral and Comment spam continues unabated, with several new domains this week, and several new machines doing the spamming. Here I present two regularly updated URl’s that list the domains and ip addresses of the machines that are hitting me, and the two scripts that generate them. More…
June 7th, 2005, by Rich, in WordPress.
May 28th, 2005, by Rich, in WordPress.
I’m just trying out Brian’s Threaded Comments plugin which will make articles that generate a lot of response more like a forum than a guge list.
Apologies if I’ve broken enything until it’s properly inserted :).
April 22nd, 2005, by Rich, in WordPress.
If you use StatTraq and WordPress, or if you use any kind of open-source statistics package on your website, you may benefit from this. Whilst reading around the intricacies of MySQL yesterday I discovered something so blindingly obvious that I think there must be a conspiracy to not talk about it. More…
April 5th, 2005, by Rich, in Website, WordPress.
The server that runs this site has endured a minor injury to it’s long term storage (one of the disks, or the RAID card that the disks connect to, are kaput) - fortunately we have backups and a fairly resilient machine, so it’s serving the pages from it’s RAM cache at the moment. The bottom line is that this site will be off line for a little while fairly soon, as soon as we have the opportunity to work out what hardware is at fault, and buy a new one of it.
April 1st, 2005, by Rich, in Spam, WordPress.
I spent a while chatting with StatTraq author Randy Peterman over the last few days, we’re both interested in how to remove (or hide) referral spam from site usage statistics in order that they may be a realistic and meaningful reflection of actual human visitors. More…
