This blog (along with a couple of other services) will be migrated over to a new server over the end of this week and into next. Please bear with me while I put it into place to make sure that this blog is faster and not down as often. During the move, WordPress will be upgraded to the bleeding edge (again) and I will move some of my hacks and modifications into the 1.6 branch of code.

WordPress Fitted Caps: I am dreaming of WordPress fitted caps for $10 plus shipping. Anyone in for a few? (I need at least 4 orders) [EDIT] Now I wonder if Copyright prevents me from ordering those caps.

What in the world is 2o7.net and why is it slowing down my web browsing considerably for the past few weeks?? After doing some research, I find that 2o7.net is actually Omniture and many of the sites that are slow to load are running some kind of web analytics software called SiteCatalyst from Omniture. Now I find that the Omniture nameservers do not want to resolve 2o7.net or 207.net as long as the request comes from the x.x.x.x subnet (my ISPs class B) Grrrrrr. Why would a web company looking to analyze visitors block a whole class B from their DNS servers??

UPDATE: IceRocket has confirmed that they DO NOT have popups on their “linking posts” tool and it looks like I am still having that problem. I will isolate the issue soon. IceRocket is not what is giving me headaches. I had added an IceRocket “linking posts” search to this blog. I believe that it resulted in some unwanted popups (which I completely missed since I was using FF all this time). Needless to say, the Icerocket search is gone and I apologize for the cooties. As a suggestion to IceRocket, you should not use my traffic to make money unless you make it extremely clear that you are going to do so and I expressly give you authority. Popups and popunders are pretty uncool anyways. If popups still do popup, please let me know.

Spammers have started to exploit the Katrina tragedy with comment spams and link farms. That is pretty low.

I had been wondering how long it would take spammers to figure this one out. Here is what has been happening for the last week or two. Spammers have been looking for blogs that do not have any kind of spam protection or are weak and have let some spam links through. They then monitor those blogs for activity to see if they are being used/check often. If they find that the blog is uninhabited, they then start adding links pointing to those spammed posts in their new spam comments to be sent to unsuspecting bloggers. Thus by making the links to blogs in their spam comments look somewhat eligible (and in a foreign language) the spammers are raising the pagerank of those spammed posts in “compromised” blogs and effectively giving their own spam links the attention they need. I suggest that all bloggers become proactive about spam. Please keep […]

I came across a couple of websites that are selling slightly modified versions of WordPress MU for as much as 99 Euro!! The kicker is that the sites were advertised on well known SEO blogs. This post is not meant to denounce the practice, but more to make people aware. Also, if you are one of those people that were/are planning to purchase a multi-blog script based on WordPress, take a look at WordPress MU first.

If all the hype and news is true, WordPress.com is set to give Typepad a run for its money. Some of the comments are very interesting to read and gauge the wide variety of consumer/user opinions on these developments. I am hopeful that Matt et al will be able to continue the development and promotion of WordPress.com (and the software that runs WordPress.com) after keeping up with the pressures and trials of WordPress.org Since Matt has not publicly disclosed the workings or the philosophy behind WordPress.com, I will not get into discussing it at all. However, I will say that I am excited and would like to congratulate Matt on taking the first step.