Category Archives: Site building

Downtime

Posted on May 9, 2008 | Comments Off on Downtime

Case you tried to leave a message in the past twenty-four hours, or so, and found it impossible, it was because Yahoo’s hosting service had a system-wide problem going on. It seems to be fixed now.

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Adios Blogroll

Posted on February 8, 2008 | Comments Off on Adios Blogroll

My Blogrolling blogroll, she has disappeared. Whence, I know not. All I get is "a fatal error has occurred." Apparently so.

UPDATE:  Then, it returned. Thankfully. I don’t know how to create one permanently, and I don’t want to take the time to learn. 

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Israel banner

Posted on January 13, 2008 | Comments Off on Israel banner

I seem to have lost my “I Stand With Israel” banner on the top left of this site’s first page. Indeed, Jack Lewis dot net, from whence the banner came, seems to be off the air, as well. I had noticed that JL previously had tried to limit people using the banner, but now it’s gone completely. I’ll have to hunt around for a substitute. I’ve tried uploading thumbnails for the sidebar but no luck so far. I’m either too inept or Movable Type is too obtuse. Or something.

UPDATE:  Then it returned, at least temporarily. Links to a dogs and cats site, now, instead of Lewis’s.

MORE: Three days later, it’s still wavering. Sometimes it’s there, sometimes it isn’t. I’m going to have to start seeking an alternative, I guess.

ADDENDUM:  With the new site on WordPress, I have a newbie, an “I (heart) Israel” banner, which does the trick nicely.

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Rare readers

Posted on September 16, 2007 | Comments Off on Rare readers

Welcome. Rare, indeed. My hit counter has dwindled to pathetic. Live by the search engines, die by the search engines, I guess. Oh, well, I have yard work to do, and other things. Enjoy what’s here, RR.

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Happy Blogiversary to me

Posted on July 14, 2007 | Comments Off on Happy Blogiversary to me

It was a year ago today I began scribbling here an average of about three times a day. Despite an Instalanch last December, I still have only a small number of constant readers, who return almost every day. I thank you for your support. Try my book, at the Amazon link near the top of the front page. It’s cheap, and you might like it. My hit count from search engines has gone up modestly, from a few dozen a day last summer and fall to eighty or more on many days now. I had even begun to attract more commenters, until last week when I decided I’d had enough of the daily hunt-and-delete for comment spam. I was attracting three hundred or more of them a day, mostly for porn and pills. So I went to a free registration, TypeKey system, the default comment security system for my blog software Movable Type. It completely eliminated the comment spam. I’ve used TypeKey myself, to comment on blogs like Roger L. Simon, and giving it my email address hasn’t come back to haunt me. I don’t get much email spam anymore, anyhow. The switch to TypeKey has made my life a lot easier. But, so far, none of my commenters has made the move with me. I regret that, y’all, but I’m sorry. I’m not going back. If Instapundit can do without commenters, except by email, I guess I can, too. If you prefer to do it that way, the address is scribbler AT texasscribbler DOT com.

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No comments

Posted on July 5, 2007 | Comments Off on No comments

I’m about ready to dismantle the comments. I had to delete 340 bogus ones, all spam, this morning, a record. And so it goes on all day long. It’s too much work, and I don’t get that many legit ones, anyhow.

UPDATE  I’m requiring authentication via TypeKey from now on. It’s easy and free to register. It’s more trouble for you, but, hopefully, less comment spam junk for me to find and delete. Indeed, by the end of the day, I haven’t had a single piece of comment spam. Yee-Ha!

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Tuesday randoms

Posted on April 24, 2007 | Comments Off on Tuesday randoms

Ever notice how the headlines on stories from Iraq are always about how many more Americans have died? Never about how many more "insurgents," or (fat chance) "terrorists," have bought it in contact with American GI’s on patrol or otherwise in battle. Why, you’d almost think the headline writers were working for the enemy. Naw. More likely, for Harry Reid.

Garbage wars, part 3: Ever since the city of Austin broke our garbage can lid with their automated truck three weeks ago, we’ve been waiting for them to come and replace the big plastic can. Called three times in the past three weeks and gotten nothing but promises–always, oddly, promised within 24 hours. Nothing’s happened yet. Now we’re playing with real garbage, which they did not pick up at all last week. Yesterday they promised to come get it today. Haven’t shown up yet. By 7:48 p.m. it was clear they weren’t coming. Again.

To mow or not to mow: Supposed to rain big this afternoon and tonight. So should I hustle and get the backyard mowed this morning, knowing that all that rain will make the grass grow quicker than usual and I’ll be back mowing again by the weekend? Or let it go until after the rain? I’m letting it go. No surprise there, right?

Back to normal. The Site Meter went through the roof yesterday with collateral hits from The Fat Guy, who got the real Instalanch–i.e. thousands of uniques from one post picked up by Instapundit putting down Compact Fluorescent Bulbs. I got about a hundred of the uniques who used Scott’s recent link to RoboCow, such that the total for the day here topped out at 162, about twice normal in recent months. But it’s over. About ten minutes ago I notice the difference between today and yesterday on the meter: yesterday it was about 60 at this time. Today, it’s 12.

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