Category: Cool

Just So I Don’t Forget The URL

As many of you know, I manage the Bend Blogs site. In my search for software to power it, I wanted something that was PHP-powered, and preferred a MySQL back-end. I also wanted something simple, and I came across lilina. It’s simple, and it works, but not as cleanly or as nicely as I’d like. Version .7 is powering the site right now, and I considered moving the site to a more up-to-date lilina-variant.

At this point, however, I think I’m just going to ditch lilina. Why? Because with a bit of work, I can get the whole thing working as an actual blog, powered by MovableType (which is far easier for me to work with), displaying local blog posts as blog posts on bendblogs.com with comments, permalinks, archives, etc… , as well as a combined RSS feed for all. How? With reBlog, which I REALLY wish I would’ve found a few months ago when I threw bendblogs.com online.

So expect an overhaul of bendblogs.com sometime in the near future. Otherwise, if anybody has a blog I should add to the site, let me know. I’m up to 91 right now, and I’m sure I’m missing some (I know I’m missing some, as some folks requested their site not be listed, which is fine), but if you have any to send over, comment here.

August 5, 2005

Lots of Local Clicks

Just for kicks, I looked through some of the totally meaningless click totals on some of the posts from some of the local bloggers over on ORblogs, and I think it’s official: Jon has by far the most clicks on a single post with 65 clicks (as of this writing) on his post about the local Donald Trump urban legend. That topic also garnered Shannon 11 clicks on a related post. The most I’ve ever done was 30 clicks on a post entitled “Don’t Have Sex With The Babysitter” which goes to show you what people will click on over there. For other locals, it looks like Grumpy Forester had a 20-click post, Jon got 14 on his brew site, and Chris got 11 on one of his.

I also looked at the overall post click total for each of our sites, and it looks like the top-five rounds up like so:

UtterlyBoring.com: 3,362
Jon (Combined between his two sites): 873
Chris: 301
Grumpy: 229
Shannon: 190

Now, if you think I have a lot, realize I have nothing on Jack Bog whose sitting at 4,428 post clicks. I have no idea if he has the most post clicks on there (I’m sure you know, Paul), but he certainly has to be pretty close to the top.

On a semi-related note, I added several more blogs and journals to BendBlogs today and plan on updating the site to a updated version of the software and some point, and hopefully hacking together an RSS feed for the thing. We’ll see how it goes and how much time allows (in other words, don’t hold your breath). I do need to clean out some dead links, but that’s another project for down the road.

August 1, 2005

50 Latest LiveJournal Images

I could’ve swore I had linked to this before, but I couldn’t find it (I did link to a bunch of random LiveJournal photos, which doesn’t have thumbnails anymore, which is disappointing). Thanks to “K” for reminding me of that site.

Somebody really needs to make the latest 50 from LJ into a screen saver. I’m sure that would kill somebody’s bandwidth in a hurry, but I know I’d probably run it.

July 31, 2005

Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head.

July 26, 2005

Simple Flash Game For The Day

The best part about it? You can use any key (which is good, because the thing isn’t in English).

July 26, 2005

Now If They Could Just Catch The Other Nigerian Scammers

Sadly, she will only spend 2.5 years in jail.

A Nigerian court has sentenced a woman to two and a half years in jail after she pleaded guilty to fraud charges in the country’s biggest e-mail scam case, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said on Saturday.
Amaka Anajemba, one of three suspects in a $242 million fraud involving a Brazilian bank, must also return $48.5 million to the bank, hand over $5 million to the government and pay a fine of $15,000, the agency said.

July 25, 2005