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Archive of entries posted on January 2008

Extra Fields in Trackback Spam

One of my blogs just caught a spammer from 69.31.80.66 trying to submit trackbacks to the blog, with extra fields in the “Name” field.

Gen Drebery’,’deber@gmail.com’,”,’63.2.12.45′,’2008-01-25 13:43:30′,’2008-01-25 13:43:30′,”,’0′,’Internet Explorer’,’comment’,’0′,’0′),(’0′, ”, ”, ”, ”, ‘2008-01-26 13:43:30′, ‘2008-01-26 13:43:30′, ”, ’spam’, ”, ‘comment’, ‘0′,’0′ ) /*

The web server logs showed he was trying to hit a specific post, [...]

Renting movies from Apple via iTunes

I wrote an article about my experience with renting a movie via the Apple iTunes store. It’s published on TheAppleBlog.com.

Creating a “GoTo” URL For Your WordPress-Powered Site

For one of my other sites, I’ll be doing some postal mailings in which I’ll need to include the URLs of some of the posts I’ve made. I really don’t want to force people to have to retype those horribly long URLs. I could use a service like TinyUrl.com, but I’m not happy giving a [...]

Evolving PlanetMike.com: Chapter 3 – Moving Content Between Domains

I’ve made a good start on splitting out personal stuff from PlanetMike.com, and moving it to MichaelClark.name. Jokes, photo galleries, and a handful of categories from WordPress have been moved. I’m moving a few more categories today, then I’ll share some of the lessons I’ve learned. Hopefully you won’t see too many problems on any [...]

Announcing CodeQuote

I’ve just released a WordPress plugin for disabling smart quotes in text that is inside a <code> block. Smart quotes, also known as curly quotes or fancy quotes, don’t mix well inside code, so if someone copies and pastes your code with smart quotes, they have to tweak the code they want to use. [...]

Overview of Web Site Traffic Analysis Tools

The first of the year is a time for looking back at what was accomplished in the past year, and to set goals for the coming year. If you run a web site, one way to do that is to look at your site’s traffic and see what happened. I run my own server, so [...]

Usage Statistics for PlanetMike.com: 2007

Summary by Month

Month
Daily Avg
Monthly Totals

Hits
Files
Pages
Visits
Sites
KBytes
Visits
Pages
Files
Hits

Dec 2007
15,151
13,329
8,748
2,681
42,654
7,180,572
83,124
271,191
413,207
469,697

Nov 2007
15,551
13,817
8,359
2,690
43,339
7,285,245
80,720
250,796
414,536
466,559

Oct 2007
14,355
12,382
7,932
2,829
41,912
5,712,332
87,721
245,918
383,861
445,030

Sep 2007
16,362
14,760
8,595
3,121
44,531
6,048,530
93,651
257,851
442,803
490,879

Aug 2007
19,132
17,161
9,987
3,957
53,589
9,012,449
122,670
309,605
532,000
593,098

Jul 2007
19,288
16,980
10,382
4,510
54,278
7,551,001
139,820
321,848
526,400
597,931

Jun 2007
19,756
17,743
10,586
4,326
55,907
5,610,407
129,796
317,585
532,290
592,688

May 2007
19,309
17,420
10,541
3,538
51,775
5,939,830
109,689
326,784
540,050
598,607

Apr 2007
23,801
21,295
11,800
3,880
62,231
7,530,408
116,417
354,002
638,869
714,044

Mar 2007
18,459
15,847
10,354
3,159
46,489
6,788,780
97,932
320,974
491,286
572,233

Feb 2007
20,256
17,948
9,690
3,415
57,104
6,743,685
95,634
271,332
502,559
567,168

Jan 2007
21,433
18,710
11,511
2,954
46,985
6,808,148
91,595
356,869
580,011
664,446

Totals
82,211,387
1,248,769
3,604,755
5,997,872
6,772,380