It appears that the DNS fix is broken. I can no longer see the site, even with the Google public DNS. If you are hear because you want to unblock Cuevana, the easiest way is to use Google’s public DNS. Instructions HERE. I just tried the google dns and it works. What I did: I [...]

I thought it was me, but when I came in this morning, all my sites on 1and1.com were timing out. Now they are back, with that quickness which means that the server might have been rebooted, or even swapped out with the next generation. Anyway, we’re back. I made a change to the htaccess file [...]

This site started getting 403 forbidden messages for no good reason. I am not sure what is going on. I am using the bleeding edge nightlies beta versions of  WordPress here, so I think they broke something last night at wordpress.org.

I wrote a short article on using the iPad as a writing tool on the cheap. I have since bought a compact keyboard for less than $10 for this and I have made a velcro strap to attach the iPad to the back of the seat in front of me so I can work. It [...]

I’ve decided that that no theme is better than a dark hard to read theme. You are looking at a simple fluid design without any typography. I am keeping the side bar, but the header is just the name of the blog.

I find referer spam annoying. Referer spam is spam that appears in my log as bogus http_referer entries – referer is misspelled for historic reasons. I also think that spammers who drop by also leave their dirt behind in the logs. By blocking certain strings in the referrer string, I think I can stop a [...]

As near as I can figure it, someone downloaded one of my plugins this week making my total downloads from the WordPress.org Repository numbering over 100,000. This makes me about 285th most popular WordPress author. I have no idea how many authors there are, but I would guess more 10,000. I would have to become [...]

I have received more downloads in the last 24 hours of any plugin that I’ve ever released. This is due to the fact that 3.2.1 release of WP was released at the same time as I released my code. Everyone is upgrading WP and then going back and upgrading their plugins. The main change to [...]

A frequent commenter here, Ovidiu, was just reject by spamhaus.org as being a spammer. The ip address that he used was listed in the spamhaus black list. It turns out that he is in an ip range that denies direct email. I am going to change it so that it only checks for known spammers and [...]

I have a mysterious situation where the cache is not sorting correctly. I moved the point where I do the cache sort  way down to just before I save it. I hope this helps. Wouldn’t you know that I haven’t received any spam since I made the changes. I hope that the sort order fixes [...]