My blog software (Wordpress) was full of well known holes and it was well past the time I should have updated my installation.
After reading that scammers have started to exploit these holes, I decided I’d better update now rather than after a 12 year-old pwnd me. If this post is successful, it means the update has gone well.
While exploring the hammockverse earlier today, I decided to interrupt my laptop reading to look over some of my older blog posts. It seems that my first blog post was made on Thursday April 5, 2007 at 6:53pm.
In this year, Wordpress claims the following statistics:
There are currently 119 posts and 18 comments (not including the IntenseDebate comments), contained within 51 categories. Now I don’t remember making a post nearly every third day, but who knows — I could be a sleepblogger.
I hope to at least double the first two metrics in Jennlog’s second year.
I’ve been a Twitter user since April or May last year. It’s a neat way of communicating with people in a “stream of consciousness” way.
Twitter released an API that allows people to create applications that improve upon (and sometimes not) the service users receive. Below are my top ten favorite twitter toys.
Edited to add: Yes I am aware of Hashtags. No, I’m not convinced of their utility over just searching on the public timeline on keywords.
I guess Intense Debate removes the ability for one’s blog to display trackbacks as it wrangles control over the entire feedback subroutine — at least in WordPress.
I’ve had a couple blog mentions on posts since moving my comments to Intense Debate:
On November 25, Brad Feld wrote about my Foreign Entrepreneurs and US Visas post in a politically-themed post.
Yesterday, Micah Baldwin wrote about my New Year’s Resolution 1: Seek Partnerships post in his weekly Friendly Intelligence post, and also linked to a few other of my recent posts.
During the last few months, I’ve read about various advertising companies that have popped up that promise other companies that they can drive customers to their door through the exploitation of various social media services.
Whether this exploitation is done by Hyping Corporate Videos to viral status, creating Fake Blogs attributed to fake consumers or through making shill comments to blog posts it is at best really needy and at worst deceptive and fraudulent.
I’m not an important person, a D-list blogger or even really cogent in my thoughts most of the time, but why someone named Luke Saunders from an advertising company named 46 Productions would bother to visit my blog and make a shill comment to one of my posts on behalf of his client Validas (”a cool new service I found”), I have no clue.
If you are a company looking to advertise your products and services to me, at least do it transparently and with feeling.
Happy USian Turkey Day everyone.
I got home from seeing friends tonight and decided I needed to do something silly to honor the direct-to-DVD release of “Futurama: Bender’s Big Score” (featuring a 20 Minute episode of “Everyone Loves Hypnotoad”) next week. What better than a stupid blog trick?
I know I’m strange, but Hypnotoad is one of my all-time favorite cartoon characters.
I give you the Hypnotoad Sidebar Widget…
Yallery launched its first Beta over the weekend (Beta1). It spent more time in QA than we’d scheduled because of some site environment differences between the dev servers, qa server and production — Totally messing with our minds as features would work flawlessly on two of three environments or one of three. We got through it and launched and we’re now working on our first Beta1 revision.
We (well, I — but I am trying to convince Michael to start posting) launched a Yallery Blog too. It is really great to finally be talking about Yallery after so much effort.
Yay us.
I suppose it was destined to happen eventually, as all Yahoo! acquisitions are eventually forced behind the Yahoo.com single signin.
I’ve gone years without needing a yahoo.com account (though, that hasn’t prevented Yahoo from allowing people to forge my email address to sign-up to their service) and I’m not about to request one now just to regain access to a single service I once found novel.
Upcoming was struck by the same fate and I’ve never returned since. It’s too bad Yahoo won’t configure and implement the “Yahoo!ID” as some sort of MetaID to be used at all Yahoo! properties and leave the application specific logins alone — they could, but they won’t.
I’ll be removing Mybloglog from the sidebar now.
I’ve discovered that the Madkast icon does eventually show in Firefox, so this is purely a Safari-related bug.
I’ve uncommented out the madkast code and the bug is ignored by Firefox, but Safari is reliably stopped dead until the page is reloaded.
I’ve been seeing this appended to the URL on to my own and other blogs the last few days. It seems to stop the page from loading, but if you remove it and reload the page the page seems to load normally.
I don’t know how long it’s been happening because I’ve been using Google Reader, but I am wondering if it is related to the Madkast code I placed in my blog, but no longer seems to provide a nice pretty Madkast icon here or elsewhere.
*testing to see if this is a Safari only phenomenon…*
No it seems to happen in Firefox too. Bummer.
Edited to add, I am going to comment out the madkast code to see if it removes the #%23isError:false weirdness…
The #isError:false activity appears to be caused by the missing Madkast widget code. Bummer. I’ve commented it out and my blog is back to working again. I’ll email the guys and let them know.
