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Category Archives: My Site

Site Changes

I’ve made some adjustments to my site’s appearance. The change are subtle, but I think they make the site look much better. The trouble with working on a site with hundreds (if not thousands) of content pages is that something invariably gets screwed up one some of the pages when I make changes. With so much [...]

Spam!

My blogs get lots of spam comments. I wrote a spam filter to catch it and shoot it on site. Now I’m watching closely to see how it performs. Every time it catches something, the counter in the sidebar goes up. So why did all the spammers stop attacking my site the minute I deployed this [...]

Annoyances

I realized that my entire site has been loading way too slowly for the past few weeks. I finally traced it to a single typo in the php script that produces those five little pictures in my site header. As a result of the typo, those five pictures were being freshly loaded from picasaweb every [...]

Embedding PicasaWeb with PHP and JavaScript

You may have noticed a new feature on my site. At the very top, off to the right, you’ll see five little colored squares. Each one is a closely cropped image from my PicasaWeb photos. If you mouse over the little photos, you’ll see the full size photograph appear, along with its caption and the [...]

A brand new blog

Behold, a brand new blog, as of today. Not that I’m new to blogging. I’ve been using WordPress for a couple years now. My main blog is in a secure location so the terrorists can’t attack it. The only people who look at it are related to me. I’ve also got a few public blogs, [...]