Readers: Please read and respond to this post. I need your input.
How amusing. I just looked back through all the comments on my blog and found two pieces of comment spam. It looks like it’s time I wrote some sort of moderation system. Either that, or I can integrate typekey registration into my blog.
I need your opinions, dear monkeysreaders… Should I:
1) Set up some sort of moderation, where I have to approve every comment by every poster?
2) Set up some sort of moderation where I have to approve comments by first-time posters, but after that they are auto-approved (assuming they use the same e-mail address)?
3) Integrate TypeKey and support into the blog, and only allow comments from registered TypeKey members?
4) Integrate OpenID and support into the blog and only allow comments from users able to authenticate with OpenID?
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I was asked to stop reading someone’s blog, today.
I received an e-mail stating that my comments on this individual’s blog were disturbing to read; that – as such – they had no interest in my opinions; that they would appreciate it if I would simply cease to read their blog and save them the hassle of banning my IP address.
I replied succinctly: “Banning my IP address would do no good, as it is dynamically assigned and a simple reset of my cable modem would result in an IP change. Banning the entire houston.rr.com subnet would be – in a word – innapropriate. I will respect your wishes and remove your blog from my read list. –Eric” (For me, this is succint.) I will, of course, do as I stated.
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Dearest readers… I never claim to bed an HTML guru, and I definately never claim to be a design guru… but when I see a website that makes me eyes bleed, and makes me want to take a overdose of clonazepam (klonipin), I have to say something.
These comments are all related to one website, I just – unfortunately – experienced.
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That reminds me, the Fyreplace Forums are up and running. There aren’t a lot of members, yet, but I’m hoping they will grow. Feel free to join, and if you want a topic/category added, just let me know.
I hurt my neck pretty badly on Friday, and have been hopped up on some rather hefty pain medication, since. Because of this, I haven’t been able to write anything of substance, this weekend. The time I should have spent writing, I spent doing a quick re-design of the main page of the site, and lookning at adding a full blogroll and amazon.com functionality. So, since I have nothing of substance to offer, I thought I would post one of my pieces of sudden fiction. This was written back in February, and is governed by the Creative Commons License that this site is under. If you wish to use this piece, go ahead, but please let me know where.
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I’m thinking of opening up fyreplace.com for hosting.
While I do not have any extra domain slots open on my plan, I can offer subdomain hosting (http://yourname.fyreplace.com).
Essentially, I’d be offering the following:
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Yes, that’s right. Now that I have a steady, reliable internet connection again, I find I’m in the midst of blogger burn out. Partly becuase I’ve been too concerned with dragging people to this site. I mean, look at my “bloggerize” category over on the left. I really should drop several of those buttons. I never even use the surf systems.
I will, however, likely be leaving the blog of the moment, and link2blogs. There are some good blogs on there (Even though link2blogs appears to be becoming more and more spam links).
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XFN 1.1 Creator
I wrote a quick bloglet for making a linkblog, and this is the test of it. Though I need to scale my table down severely from here.
My cable internet connection has been going up and down for the past several hours. We’re not sure what the problem is, and a technician won’t get here until between 4pm and 8pm, tomorrow. For those who regularly listen to the stream, I apologize, but it’s out of my hands.
On the other side, I got to be really nice and nasty with Time Warner Cable, today, as it is quite difficult to run an online business when your internet connection keeps going in and out, seemingly at random. Idiots.
For those of you who routinely tune into my audio stream, my apologies for today. My cablemodem died sometime around 4:00am, central, last night. I didn’t get it swapped out until twelve hours later. I am, however, extremely happy that I did. I’m now surfing at about twice the speed I was. I’m currently sustaining a 278k/sec download of a linux iso, and am surfing sites (even with excessively large graphics) at no appreciable loss in speed. Time Warner Houston upped their maximum speed to 2.0mb guarenteed sustained, with up to 5.0mb bursts, here recently. I just needed the newer cable modem to take advantage of it. Rock on. Now if they would just up my upstream bandwith, I’d be a much happier camper. heh.
I also did some quick edits of the site, when I discovered mysql giving “too many connections” errors on some documents. An edit of every file fixed that. I removed all calls to my configuration file (which connects to the database, as well) and all mysql_close() statements in all files. I then did a single include() of my config file at the top of the header file, and a mysql_close() at the bottom of the footer. A single connection that is automatically closed when the page finishes loading. This has not only sped up loading of the site (although it really isn’t noticeable, unless you look at the numbers at the bottom of each page), but it has also reduced the CPU and memory overhead required, and – in turn – has made my hosting provider much happier.
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