http://blogs.n1zyy.com/meta The blog about the blogs! Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:39:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just signed up at Elegant Themes and installed some of their themes here. They're all, well, elegant, though quite a few of them rely on various elements that none of us use, such as photos to go with each article. Nothing impossible to fix, I'm sure. Just wanted to ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/meta/2009/01/03/new-themes/ It's probably self-evident, but I updated the design on the main page. The old one was...well, old. Use this thread to tell me what you think. Thumbs-up or thumbs-down comments are welcome, but if you have anything specific you think should be fixed (I have several things!), use the comments for ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/meta/2008/12/06/new-design/ It's now possible to set the Akismet plugin up to work "globally," which means that, if you're not already using it, you can simply enable it and sit back. It seems to be about 95% (guess) effective in catching spam. Combined with other things that also catch the majority of ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/meta/2008/12/05/spam-fighting/ I just removed the image from Electoral-Vote.com, since it's kind of pointless to indicate the 'current' electoral vote count, since it shouldn't change. (Unless Alaska finds more missing ballots.) Perhaps more usefully, I added a count of the number of comments on the Recent Posts blurb for the main page. I ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/meta/2008/11/11/minor-tweaks/ I'm not entirely sure what happened, but the physical server we're on went offline today, and we just had it rebooted and brought everything back up recently. (Actually, it came back up for about 60 seconds then went down again... But now it's been up for 30 minutes or so.) Everything ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/meta/2008/10/28/were-back/ I enabled APC this afternoon. In my haste to set the webserver up when moving, I never bothered to do a "good" configuration. (I used this handy guide to APC on Debian Etch.) Some super-quick benchmarks (using ab with 1000 connections, 5 concurrent) are below. Before APC: blogs.n1zyy.com/ (main page custom code): ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/meta/2008/09/30/now-with-apc/ Okay, it's officially an addiction. I added some more themes. Bloggers, the "Design" tab in your directory now has 229 themes. The upgrade to WPMU 2.6 seems to have split them over multiple pages (versus having 229 in a row), though I do miss my old quick-nav link to the ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/meta/2008/09/02/themes-2/ I just upgraded to WordPress Multi-User (WPMU) 2.6, the latest tree. I'm hoping this will fix the problems with blogging via external applications. As always, let me know if you come across bugs. http://blogs.n1zyy.com/meta/2008/08/27/wpmu-26/ Per the overview page I wrote, there have been a whopping 2 spam comments in the past 3 days. (And they were on my blog; I haven't moderated anything in a while, which means they got caught automatically.) I've very enthusiastic about eliminating spam, even working on other peoples' sites to ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/meta/2008/05/31/all-quiet-on-the-spam-front/ For reasons I still don't fully understand, the server locked up hard. Compounding things, it wouldn't boot. LayeredTech generously gave me a couple free hours on their spiffy KVM-over-IP system and burned me a LiveCD allowing me to go in and fix the problem... An fsck of everything didn't turn up ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/meta/2008/05/16/and-were-back/