Archive for May, 2004

One year of blogging

In: Blogging

25 May 2004

One year ago today (well, it’s actually yesterday, since it just crossed midnight), 24 May 2003, I wrote my very first blog entry. Of course, I started with good old Blogger, moved on to Blog-City, and then FreeRoller (now renamed to JRoller), before I finally settled on using Movable Type on my own hosting account. [...]

The good people at Project Aon sent out an email on their mailing list today to announce the release of the Lone Wolf RPG (RPG in the Pen and Paper sense, not the CRPG sense). Yes, a PnP RPG! Not that I’ve ever truly played one beyond a fleeting tryst with BattleTech PnP. Where are [...]

Ping-o-Matic is now not only a HTML form-based service that you can use to notify multiple sites of your new weblog entry. This weblog entry let us in on the new ping URL http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ that you can use to replace the long list of URLs you’re currently pinging everytime you make a new weblog entry. [...]

Yup that’s it, no more hot-linking of images (and CSS files as well) on this site, please. Thanks to pippo’s How can I prevent hot-linking images? post, any hot-link requests to this site will be redirected to this image below instead: I know there have been cases of legitimate hot-linking (at least in my view [...]

Edward Bateman wrote me last week to suggest an improvement to MT-Blacklist Updater. I then realised that if large numbers of users began to use your script, then Jay’s server would be under extremely high load just around the hour of each day, and especially during specific US times. He then went on to suggest [...]