Right now PlanetMike.com is made up of several different technologies: WordPress, a lot of shtml pages (server side includes), a few php pages, and lots of photo galleries created with iPhoto and Gallerie. After the recent Google PageRank update, I’m thinking about basically starting over with the entire site. I think I want to move […]
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Google Pagerank 6 to 4! and 0 to 3 or 4!
Wow, my Google PageRank for the PlanetMike.com home page has dropped to 4 from 6, down from 7 a year ago. Speculation elsewhere on the web says that Google is penalizing people for using Text-Link-Ads. Well, if that’s the cause, hmmm, fine I guess. Up until this month, I made much more money from Text-Link-Ads […]
Verizon Billing Sucks II
Last month, Verizon screwed up my billing when I tried to change to a less expensive for the same features calling plan. The rep promised me that it would be all fixed and straightened out in my October statement. Guess what? The October statement is still screwed up. They still have me for the Triple […]
My iMac died
Well, hopefully it is only a heart attack. It was fine yesterday, went to turn it on this morning. Nothing. I read these pages at Apple.com: iMac G5: Troubleshooting when your computer won’t turn on iMac G5: Loose power cord could cause power loss iMac G5 Repair Extension Program for Video and Power Issues And […]
Watching Your Web Server
I have often wished I could have a real-time visual indicator of what my web server is doing. I never really got past simply using a tail command piped into a grep command so I could see interesting things. But Erlend Simonsen came up with a very cool program called glTail. It’s a Ruby script […]
Problems at Google?
Is Google having some kind of problem with their servers? I tried to do some maps with Maps.Google.com, and the images that come back never quite fill in completely. I end up seeing 4 or 5 of the 9 large squares, and the browser’s status window says “waiting for mt#.google.com” The number has been 1 […]
Verizon Billing Sucks
Remember a couple weeks ago when I shared my glorious experiences with Verizon? And I was assured my billing would be ok? I just got my September Verizon bill in the mail. Any one want to take the bet that the billing was ok? My old billing is still in place. I called Verizon, yelled […]
Review of BlogRush.com (Syndicating your blog)
The hottest new widget on the web is BlogRush.com (yes, that’s an affiliate link). You put their widget on your site, then they syndicate your headlines out to other blogs in your same category. On your blog you’ll see five headlines from other blogs. You’ll get one of your headlines displayed on some other blog […]
Use mod_cband to manage apache, not mod_throttle
One of the discussions I found about monitoring my web server’s usage mentioned in passing mod_cband. So I got it installed on my CentOS box, and it looks like it is working. I’ll hammer on it this week to see how well it works. I found this article very useful: Manage Apache Download Speed And […]
mod_throttle is gone?
I need to install mod_throttle on my apache, and the author of the software has closed down his archive of it, and is refusing to respond to questions about it. That’s a very unfriendly thing to do, although I’m sure he has his reasons. Any other ideas for how to manage my apache system’s bandwidth […]