Quentin Template for WordPress: A simple burnt paper edge template for WordPress. Looks nice.

WhatCounts Introduces BlogUnit, the First Technology Appliance Designed to Address the Growing Need for Corporate Blogging: Wow, thats a niche not served yet! Thanks Newswire

I updated the original subscribe plugin, recently, using the database to store the subscriber list instead of a text file, as well as to require confirmation of all (un)subscription requests. It includes a management page to install the database tables, and to manage the list of subscribers. Check out the Subscribe2 beta announcement for the download link.

Over the last couple of days my servers have been suddenly getting extremely slow and non-responsive at times. The system load averages climb to the hundreds and nothing responds. This has lasted from a few minutes to a few hours (the night before last). I found nothing out of the ordinary coming into the system and was having trouble figuring out the source of this DoS, until late last night. I was watching the server logs while working on some code and noticed that I was getting referer spammed. As I continued to look (and log) in amazement, a handful of machines made a large number of requests to my server, all with the tell tale referer spam clues (there were about 10,000 total requests in that attack). My understanding is that when the spammer requested such a large number of pages in quick succession, the server buried itself in […]

The Real Benefits of Blogs: This is a great post. I could go on for hours on what blogging means to me and how I benefit from blogging. Why do you blog?

WordPress Plugin – ContactForm: Add a simple contact form to your WordPress blog in the form of a plugin. Thanks BloggingPro

WordPress 1.5 Upgrade Party at Matt’s: Any other Upgrade parties going around? I wonder how many people in the Toledo area use WordPress? If there are any other parties getting put together, please leave a comment and I will post it. If you are in the Toledo vicinity, please leave a comment.

What is an AdSense Jail?: Every found yourself in one? I know I have! [EDIT] Let me explain a little. For those of you that advertise on your blogs, have you ever gotten into the situation where one fine morning your blog starts to generate a substantially large sum of revenue because of something you wrote (I mean substantial, really) and then you update your blog and the revenue dissappears as suddenly as it appeared? Once this happens to you more than a couple of times, and you stumble upon one of those again, you are afraid to update the blog till the deluge dissappears. This is what I term a “Jail”. The idea came to me from PRI. They have a bunch of recorded shows on a CD called “Driveway Moments” where you’re driving home, listening to a story on your local NPR station. Suddenly, you find yourself in […]