Journal of PlanetMike

YouTube videos no longer play when using Privoxy to block ads Internet-wide. #

Did America Online (AOL) have an email/DNS outage on Tuesday, Dec. 21st, from 2am to 5am Eastern time? Thousands of bounces in my mail log. #

@cloudflare Are stats down? None of my sites got any traffic yesterday. Or are the gerbils still re-crunching the numbers? # @CloudFlare Thanks for the info – have a great weekend (switching over 5 more domains to Cloudflare this weekend!) # I'm growing to like OpenID as I find more and more web sites that […]

I wish I could make the Wikipedia plea for donations close permanently. Once I click the little "x" in the corner it should stay closed. # Thank You Patrick Gibson: http://patrickgibson.com/projects/nomorejimmywales/ So far, it seems to work great! # @williamsba Slashdot? 🙂 #

Why does the Yahoo crawler keep asking for obviously bad pages on my sites? /shop/whatever-spammy-product-name-here? IPs match Yahoo's space # @perishable No Akismet problem here #

@gawker thanks for the spam! Your decisions about your security has an impact on your peasants. Or your former peasants that is. Unsubbed. # @cloudflare Is your service down? My domains are now resolving to their normal IP address. #

Just updated 20 sites to WordPress 3.0.3 without any problems; and upgraded to Akismet 2.5.0 as well. #

Too many great WordPress themes are actually children of frameworks, creating the grandchild problem. Argh. #

@DHanchey Thanks for the suggestion of my-calendar # I've finally moved one of my older domains off of Tumblr. Their recent server crash finally gave me enough incentive to do it. #

@TyUnglebower Factionalism in community theater: a great idea for a column. I agree it's a problem. # @cloudflare Why can't we login with a username instead of our email address? We've defined a username in our account. # @eastdakota Thanks for the username followup. #