Category: Internet

Several long overdue tasks are finally done. Comments now have individual permalinks. I had individual anchors for the comments for quite some time but you needed to view source to see them. Now the URL for each comment is linked to the date and time for that comment. I have eliminated popup windows for comments… Continue reading Weblog Maintenance

Flying Chair has the results for the Asia Weblog Awards. Here are the winners: Hong Kong: Gweilo Diaries Mainland China: Enjoy Code Taiwan: 3Q2U Singapore: XiaXue Malaysia: sultanmuzaffar Thailand: Thailand Life Indonesia: Kambingjantan Japan: Kind of Crap Korean: The Greatest Asprin Foreign (not from or about Asia): Coolios Funniest: Kind of Crap Political: Screenshots Design:… Continue reading Asia Weblog Awards

Flying Chairs is hosting the first Asia Weblog Awards. Categories include best weblogs from a number of Asian countries and also by subject. You can nominate weblogs as well as vote for existing nominations. Phil has put in a lot of effort and is doing a great job organizing this. So, thanks, Phil. One of… Continue reading Asia Weblog Awards

Congratulations to Conrad Barwa for the 1500th comment. Also, my weblog now has had visitors from 100 countries. (Probably not technically accurate since I determined that by the top-level domains in DNS lookups of the IP addresses.) The latest two countries: Guyana and Sri Lanka. Some time in the last month or so, I also… Continue reading Blog Milestones

You might or might not have noticed my browsing list on the sidebar. It is just below the list of books on the right. This “browsing list” will comprise of any interesting stuff I find net-surfing. Putting a URL on that list does not mean that I agree or endorse the contents of that webpage;… Continue reading Browsing List

Jay Allen has come up with version 1.5 of MT-Blacklist to combat spam in comments and trackback. I have installed the new version and it works great. No more errors that I got with version 1.0beta and no slowing down of the rebuild process. I haven’t been getting too much spam in my comments, but… Continue reading MT-Blacklist

Looking at the TTLB Blogoshpere Ecosystem, I have been a slithering reptile for quite some time. This designation is based on the number of incoming links to my blog. I am currently ranked #1226 with 29 incoming links. What is interesting is that my traffic has been increasing steadily but my ecosystem rank is stagnant.… Continue reading Blogosphere Ecosystem

I have been getting regular spam in the comments recently. Therefore, I have installed the MT-Blacklist plugin to prevent posting of spam comments. If you encounter any problems with comments or trackback, please let me know. Also, the plugin allows one to publicly publish their blacklist. Mine will be published here when I add to… Continue reading Spam and Blacklist

I have added two different ways of looking at popular posts on the sidebar. One looks at my webserver logs and selects the posts who individual entry archive pages have been visited the most in the past 3 days. (Extension to longer times is possible if I knew Perl. [UPDATE: Used a nasty solution to… Continue reading Popular Posts

Visits Per Month September 2003 is the first month I have gotten more than 5,000 visits. The number of visitors to my weblog has been increasing a lot recently. I switched to Movable Type in mid-May and it was then that the decline of my blog was averted. In other news, I have had visitors… Continue reading Blog Visits