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OpenID

Romeo Sid Vicious — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:16:55 +0000

I have made some changes to stop the spammers from signing up for accounts ’round these parts. I have enabled OpenID and set it so that new users have to have a valid OpenID to sign up for an account. You can still comment the same way you did before or use OpenID. It’s either or for comments since the spam controls I have on the comments work so well that hardly anything gets through. Since you don’t have to sign up for an account to comment this shouldn’t really affect anyone that’s already commenting here. This was more of a heads up in case something goes awry. I have had around 40-50 spam sign ups a week and would really like them to go away. I am deleting them as they come in, well weekly, so if I accidentally delete a real person’s account please let me know.

A Little Clean Up

Romeo Sid Vicious — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:29:51 +0000

I cleaned up the mix tapes so that they are all here and none of them floating around on their own subdomains anymore. Not a ton has changed except behind the scenes. I have converted the three mixes that were still subdomains and will be directing all of the mix tape subdomains to the Mixes & Intros page and deleting the content on them and eventually removing them. It’s easier to maintain a single subdomain for the mixes and even that re-directs to the Mixes & Intros page. I also went through and added the artist names as tags for each of the mix tapes so that they might be easier to search for. I still have two mixes that are not quite the right format and one post that’s a playlist with a play button for each track I need to convert but those can wait a while longer.

I know my Categories don’t make much sense and they shouldn’t since they are arbitrary phrases I chose for no reason other than them sounding cool. However I am using each one for something specific and in regards to music Once more into the breach should get you all the compilations and intros as posts instead of a list if you are so inclined.

Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam

Romeo Sid Vicious — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:15:43 +0000

For some reason spammers have decided to test my anti-spam measures. I am happy to say that they are working flawlessly so far. The combination of tools I have in place is preventing between twenty and thirty spam comments a day! I have no idea why they decided to start now but they aren’t getting through my defenses. I guess it was only a matter or time before they started here. I just wanted to brag a little bit about the tools and thumb my nose at the spamming morons. I now return you to your normal programming.

Quick Site Fix

Romeo Sid Vicious — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:22:15 +0000

Apparently this theme’s comment link wasn’t working for some reason. It is fixed now. You can comment easily on entries. I am working on allowing comments without registration but have to get some other anti-spam stuff in place before I turn that on. I’ll have it done before lunch most likely.

UPDATE: Non-registered users may now comment. In order to avoid spam you first comment will be held for moderation. Comments will automatically close on posts older than thirty days. And no captcha to annoy anyone!

UPDATE Part the Second: Gravatars are enabled and working. Yeah I know it’s kind of cheesy but I wanted them working so I made it happen.

Site changes

Romeo Sid Vicious — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:21:36 +0000

While I really liked the whole voodoo theme it wasn’t conducive to actually reading the text. I played with the CSS but that’s sort of damn boring. I toyed with going back to the old Spider Jerusalem theme or the Shotgun theme but decided I wanted a new theme. This one is well made, open source, and easy on the eyes (at least for me) so the choice was easy. Since I have started posting stuff again I changed the twitter digest to a weekly post so it doesn’t clutter up anything I want seen on the main page. I wanted a way to have it post to its own page but that’s beyond what I am willing to hack on right now. So a weekly digest is good enough and the front page will be generally clean enough to read the stuff that’s not a twitter digest.

I have started, if you haven’t seen, posting intro mixes for people to get a feeling about my favorite artists and bands. I think those may actually move to another site soon and just be cross posted here and that will be a good thing. But posting those has sort of got me wanting to post about some of the stuff I have been thinking about or discussing with friends and so on. I have always been able to better work out my thoughts when I journaled. I can’t promise anything but I want to try and post a mix tape on Monday, current events on Wednesdays, and life management on Fridays with random geek stuff in between. I have done some pretty cool stuff lately on the geek front and really didn’t share it anywhere when I sort of should have. I know I mentioned life management but I am not talking about giving tips for managing your life but rather chronicling the struggle to get mine under control. I have no intention of posting any sappy-self-help-drivel.

UPDATE: I think I found a plugin to exclude stuff from the main page and if so I’ll set twitter back to daily digests!
UPDATE 2: Plugin works. I have recategorized all posts that were in the category that twitter tools posts to and switched back to daily. I even went all the way to start of this blog and added tags and re-categorized every post I have made. The categories make sense to me but not likely to anyone else.

Boston, MA – You ain’t seen nothin’ yet…

Romeo Sid Vicious — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:42:38 +0000

So my company has decided to inflict me on Boston or vice versa depending on your point of view. It should be pretty interesting to say the least. Those yanks won’t know what hit them. I will hit at least one Irish pub during my week-long stay just to say I’ve to a pub in Boston but other than that it should be a quiet and un-eventful trip. A simple deployment with someone standing over my shoulder learning how it’s done. What could go wrong?

Anyway I fixed my twitter widget, apparently it lost my user/pass so it wasn’t getting any data. I also figured out the repeated items on the sidebar were two different widgets. One of them included the Meta menu as a feature and didn’t say so except as an afterthough. Bastards.

I have almost managed a post per day since I started the new joint and last night’s post was written from the new and shiny mobile admin interface on my Windows Based Mobile Device so I have no real excuse for not posting no matter where I am.

As an aside I decided to test the use of the cell phone as a wireless router and managed 2.5 Mbps download speeds. Of course as far as power goes it needs to be plugged in so using the phone and laptop without a power outlet wouldn’t give me that much time it works and does it well. I am happy to have a decent Windows product. My only hate for Microsoft has been the crappy operating system and even XP is decent. I still prefer Linux on the Desktop but that’s personal preference at this point.

I hope you all had a good weekend. I know I did. I’ll see you all from a different timezone next time…

Damn the man

Romeo Sid Vicious — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:04:38 +0000

Some of my plugins are not working and it’s pissing me right off. The widgets and standard items are showing all on the sidebar on one computer but not another, the twitter widget isn’t posting daily digests after the first day, and the damn icon is broken on my mowser widget (which works well otherwise). I’ll try and fix this shit tomorrow. How damn annoying…