I’ve said the personal posts and content from PlanetMike.com will be moved to another site. What site would that be? I’m thinking now it will be MichaelClark.name. I also have registered both MichaelClark.org and MichaelClark.net, but .name will be my “official” personal site. If you’d like to get a glimpse as to how I’ll be […]
Archive of posts filed under the Technology category.
Evolving PlanetMike.com: Chapter 1 – What do I currently have?
So the first thing to do is figure out exactly what content I have to work with. For the WordPress portion of the site, that’s simple. I installed the Dagon Design Sitemap Plugin (warning – lots of spammy comments, so that site may not be managed any longer) and created a sitemap of the blog […]
Evolving PlanetMike.com: Introduction
For years I’ve been using PlanetMike.com as my primary web site, and I post everything on it. The site started as a bunch of static web pages, then used (and still does in many places) server side includes. I’ve posted photos, jokes, other miscellaneous information. Then I started blogging, using Bloxsom, and then switched to […]
Help Your Users: Don’t Break Old URLs
Whenever you move content from one URL to another, you should have your web server return requests to the old URL with a response code of 301 and the updated URL. This allows the user to still get to the content they were looking for. Plus it tells web crawlers of all sorts about the […]
New Splogger Tactic: Random Sentences
While going through my comment spam this morning, I have discovered a new trick the sploggers are using. Until this week, they would scrape the first paragraph and then (usually) link to the original post on my site. It seems they are now choosing a few random sentences to excerpt. One of the sploggers chose […]
Jack-O-Lantern User Agent Considered Harmful
While researching some of the spam comments submitted to blog, I ran across the Jack-O-Lantern user agent. Any comments submitted from my blog are run through a unique WordPress comment post script I wrote. The script allows me to track who is spidering my site and storing the comment form URL for later usage. One […]
Comment Links to International Sites
Recently someone commented here on one of my older posts. The comment sounded legitimate, so I checked out the URL listed with the comment. It was a Swedish site. Neither Google Translate nor Babelfish have a Swedish to English option, so I have no idea what that site is talking about. So because (1) Google […]
Verizon DNS Headaches
Verizon recently started sending users of its residential broadband services (DSL and FiOS) a Verizon Search page instead of an error page if they attempt to visit a web site that doesn’t exist. They are doing this by using the Domain Name System (DNS). If you request a page at a domain name that doesn’t […]
BlogSecurity.net down?
The web site BlogSecurity.net has been down for nearly 24 hours now. I tried emailing abuse@ and postmaster@ and both messages bounced back to me. That’s a shame, I was really enjoying the site, it was full of good ideas for locking down your blogs. Hopefully they weren’t hacked, or driven off the web by […]
Thoughts on the “Blog Incubator Project”
Daniel from Daily Blog Tips has created a Blog Incubator Project. I think it is an interesting idea, although the current implementation is flawed. The goal is to encourage someone to start a high-quality, popular blog. You come up with a topic you’d like to blog about, pay a $10 entry fee, then next week […]