Thanks to spammers, I’ve reworked the way my guestbook works. Rather than using my good old CGI guestbook written in Perl, I’ve created a page with WordPress and leveraged the WordPress commenting system to handle guestbook entries. Doing so, automatically adds spam blocking to my guestbook.
Category: Site News
I’m sure they’ll be relieved
It looks like I’ll be removing a certain prominent search engine company from my shit list…
500th Post
(from the pointless milestone dept.) 500th post since June 22, 2001
Refinement
I’ve made some changes to the look of this site. I hope these changes are valuable addition to your modern lifestyle.
1000 Comments
(from the it’s significant because it’s a nice round number dept.) Another pointless milestone has been reached: 1,000 non-spam comments have been posted to this web site. Whoopty-freakin-do!
WordPress 2
I’ve gone ahead and upgraded to WordPress 2. Looks like all the WordPress plugins I use work and I’m trying out the new anti-spam plugin that’s included with version 2 (so far it’s working).
Summary of 2005
In 2005, 189 posts were added to this web log.
Pardon our dust…
If this site has seemed a bit erratic during the last couple of days, it’s because I’ve change web hosting companies (lower price, actual tech. support, more disk space & up to date versions of Perl, PHP, MySQL, etc.). Looks like the new dns info has mostly propagated, so things should be back to normal.
10 years on the web
It was about 10 years ago when I decided to take advantage of my ISP’s free web space and teach myself HTML. Since then, I’ve maintained a continuous presence on the web, moving my web pages from one ISP to another. Finally, in May, 2000 I obtained my own domain. More: Wayback Machine archive of … Continue reading “10 years on the web”
Notice anything different?
I’ve finally switched this site to WordPress. Everything is mostly working — I just need to fix the comments template and the right sidebar doesn’t quite look right when viewed with Internet Explorer (why are you using Internet Explorer anyway?). I also have to figure out a way to make the “Quote of the Day” … Continue reading “Notice anything different?”