In Better badware notifications for webmasters, Google mentions they may send email to generic addresses (like webmaster@ and admin@) to help alert webmasters that their site has “bad” stuff on it. Please don’t send alerts to “generic” addresses. Those get only spam for me. It would be great to let us webmasters to set up […]
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Powered by WordPress Directory
Fitting into the “Doh! Why didn’t I think of that?” category, Powered By WordPress – PoweredbyWP.com launched recently. It’s a directory of the zillions of blogs and web sites that are operated by the WordPress CMS (Content Management System). I’ve started submitting my blogs to it, hopefully they will be approved.
Web 2.0 Explained in Under Five Minutes
A very cool video explaining how and why the Web is so important.
Adding An Advertisement After the First Post on a WordPress Blog
On one of my other sites we run advertising, a banner ad. Because I haven’t had time until today to figure out how to get the ad to appear after the first posting on a page, we’ve been putting the ad on every page of the site, except the home page. The include code is […]
Snap Preview Anywhere Hurting User’s Web Experience
Snap.com is running a new service, Snap Preview Anywhere. It allows websites to have the links on their site show a preview of the linked site in a floating window. I have stumbled across several sites that are using this technology, and I find it distracting. I’m reading through a page, I scroll down and […]
Is Python the equivalent of Basic?
I am about to inherit a Plone based web site at my day job. So I’m reading through the docs at the Plone web site, and they say that I should learn Python. I am shortly at How to Think Like a Computer Scientist and am running my first Hello world program (command) in Python […]
Domain Registry Support; Network Solutions Whois database is down
I can’t access the Network Solutions Whois database. * WELCOME to the VeriSign Global Registry Service Whois Server. * * Sorry, the Whois database is currently down. * * Please wait a while and try again. Thanks I needed to use it to confirm the registration dates for one of my domains hasn’t passed. I […]
Chinese spiders/robots downloading mp3 files?
While running the web traffic stats for some of my podcast sites, I noticed that a bunch of my MP3 files have been downloaded a bunch of times from the same IP address. And then two seconds later, it is downloaded again. Luckily the second time apache reports a 206 (file unchanged) error. The IP […]
O’Reilly Safari Signup Process Turning People Off
I googled a question about Photoshop, and one of the first page results was found in a book available in O’Reilly’s Safari service. The safari service gives you access to O’Reilly books online. I needed to signup for a free ten day/50 page account to see the info I was looking for. To actually get […]
Reason #692 to Use Your Own Domain Name
Wil Wheaton is agonizing over using his domain name for his blog vs the TypePad blog he’s been running ever since Moveable Type crashed a couple years ago. So for two years he’s been building the brand of Typepad. I think Wil (I should say Mr. Wheaton since i’be never met him, but I feel […]