Lost!

I found a neat feature on a blog that I was reading - it displayed the results of the Authors reading habits. I figured there had to be something that did the same thing for WordPress - there is! Now Reading - a pretty handy-dandy tool to show off your library publicly. Continue reading…

I recently had the “pleasure” of installing PHP on a Win 2003 Server and ran into some odd problems here and there. The one that annoyed me the most was the manual installation of PHP/Apache - something that everyone complains about. Since this was a kind’a’sorta test environment and not a local development install, I couldn’t use XAMP or like products.

So, when you install Apache and it displays the neat & purdy “Weclome!” page, you’re halfway home. When you install PHP the manual way, you’ll sometimes run into the following error after activating PHP inside Apache (even though things look alright):

Cannot load c:/php/sapi/php4apache2.dll : The specified module could not be found.

So, what do you do? For starters, rip your hair out trying to verify that everything is alright and as it should be, then do the following:

Copy php4ts.dll from the root PHP directory into the to sapi directory or php4apache2.dll from the sapi to the php root. I personally go with the first option. After that, restart Apache and *poof*, it works. Don’t know why, but I hope it helps you…

I noticed a comment spam in on of my newest stories and was a little surprised, so I looked into my logs and figured out some things…

3.54 (Score)
0.5: Comment has no URL in content (but one author URL)
1.04: Commenter granularity (based on URL): 3 old comment(s) (karma avg: 5.180000), 0 recent comment(s) (karma avg: 0.000000).
2: Trackback Source Site (http://webtekconcepts.com/2​006/10/17/google-code-search-kru​gle-or-koders/trackback/)​ does contain Blog URL domain (webtekconcepts.com).

5 hours, 49 minutes
2006-10-17 10:00:43GMT
848290 Blog Verifica
Author: 848290 Blog Verification
E-mail:
IP: 82.146.98.203
URL: http://webtekconcepts.com/2006/1​0/17/google-code-search-krugle-o​r-koders/trackback/​
Google Code Search, Krugle or Koders…. 848290 Blog Verification… 848290…
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So, you want to be DUGG? What makes a good candidate? Who actually does the Digging (ha! I made a funny!). I’ve been DUGG 3 times in the last month, only once is my own doing. But, in that time, I’ve noticed something about DIGG, Slashdot and the incoming links that follow your posts. Ultimately, all of this relates to traffic to your website.

A true DIGG/DUGG
Ultimately, I’ve only been DUGG once. I classify a DUGG as a decent amount of traffic or unique visitors. I get a good amount of hits, but its mostly from people just browsing around the site, not unique visitors. Getting 6,000 unique visitors in one day is being moderately (if that) DUGG. Continue reading…

I don’t get it…

Over the weekend, I had a major outage and no one was able to get to my blog. Mainly, this outage is a DNS issue which I failed to realize till today due to being REALLY busy. I’ll be the first to admit that my stats have been low because I haven’t done a lot of things I should like SEO and using Post Tags like I should have been. I started, but it hasn’t picked up just yet.

13 Oct 2006 XXXX 2.98 MB
14 Oct 2006 0 0 0 0
15 Oct 2006 0 0 0 0
16 Oct 2006 0 0 0 0
17 Oct 2006 5 4 3 57 391.43 KB (Caught half an hour before this)

Now, what I don’t get is, in that 3.5 day outage, my Technorati rank changed 300,000 slots for the better… Instead of being in the top 1.2 million blogs, I’m below the magical 1 million without getting nailed on DIGG, Slashdot, etc…

A few things have changed within the last week that I can think added up to this.

1.I updated my post Pings to a monstrous amount to see what would happen.
2.I had another person comment on a story (4 days ago in iShopr Blog by dawie)
3.I had another story posted on DIGG (very low turnout though).
4.I’ve posted exactly 1 story in the last week (told you I was busy).

Not complaining, just really confused - so I guess I haven’t figured it out.