- I finally… finally…slapped that nasty little bug in the comments section. Been a while since I’ve had the programmer’s hat on. The bug in case you’d not noticed, was the oddball time display on each comment. Bad call to the database. It’s been fixed.
- And yes, that means I’ll be keeping this design for a while, yet, though I may yet make some cosmetic changes. All the ones I like the look of, I’ve found lacking, in how they handle photos and paragraph blocking, as well as quotes and photos. I like the way this design deals with it enough that I’ll put up with the smaller issues it for now.
- Yes, Fersboo is alive. We’ve had two sightings of him recently. (Kidding, of course) We’re happy to hear from him, though.
- I’m looking at the latest WordPress update, for installation sometime over this next weekend. I’m a little leery of the update because of bug reports I’m hearing… mostly about how it screws up the Sitemap plugin I’m using. I don’t want to do without that. Except for a short outage, you shouldn’t notice anything, if I do my job correctly.
- We’re maintaining a few hundred visitors at day, of late… perhaps 20 either side of 300 hits per day, even on weekends. Interestingly, the real rise in readers has been on the weekend, to get us to that level… weekends have been a slow time for us, until now. We’re encouraged. For a while, there, we had 4000 hpd, from the Michelle Malkin link… and Red State, and Chris Hendrix and Cold Fury, and so on. My hat is tipped for them. Interestingly enough, we’re not getting a great deal of traffic directly from those sites, anymore. Where we’re getting it, is from people coming directly in. In other words, they were not referred by some other site. It looks likely we’ve become a a daily read, for a lot of new folks. As I say, we are encouraged.
- I should mention we have a huge increase in traffic coming from Memeorandum. [1] After not getting anything from there for a while, it’s a nice change.
- I’ve got the site backup automated, now. I still have to manually trip the thing, but it does it all by itself after that. (shrug) I don’t know. I guess I just like the idea of watching the thing go through, and make sure manually that it’s getting everything it needs to. Even after full site crash, won’t take is longer than twenty minutes to restore from the files I have online, anymore. One backup at the web server, and a week’s worth stored on my big file server here at Casa de Bit.
- The sharper among you will have noticed that there’s an awful lot of external traffic coming in on the block of links just below the masthead. The headlines link is interesting, but doesn’t really serve the purpose to my satisfaction. The quality of the content leaves something to be desired, in terms of a fit for this place. Frankly, that’s going to be replaced with something that does a little better. I’m still looking at other sources. Consider what’s up there a trial run and a confirmation of concept. The “This Day in History” link and the “Today’s Birthday” link, however, will be staying. We’ve had good feedback [2] on them already. Also, I’ve added Chris Muir’s Day by Day cartoon up there. I really wanted Chris added to the front page, but graphically I don’t see how to do that in this theme. I’m hoping the Chris doesn’t mind being shuffled to page two. I’ll be adding more stuff, up there, as I get used to the idea of manipulating that section. For one thing, I’ve had a re-code of some of it, to match some of the modifications that I made when I originally set this site up.
- Update: I’ve added a color variation for nested block quotes, for reading clarity in response to a reader’s request