After wasting a lot of time messing with the routing options on my Zywall 10 I think I finally got the port-forwarding configuration setup right so that the new website is up and running! Yeah! Hint for anyone trying to configure that on the Zywall, go to the manual, and jump to …
Keep reading · 1 minute: New Site Up!This post is a heads up that a new thingelstad.com is on the way! I’ve finally made the push to get things into a new blogging package (WordPress) and am just finalizing things now. The new site will be up by the end of the week. I’m going to try to redirect as many links as …
Keep reading · 1 minute: New Website Coming!Google released a new version of the Google Reader a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been using it for the last few days. I think that I’ve finally found a web-based RSS reader that I can live with now. I’ve wanted to move my RSS reading to a web reader so that I can access it …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Google ReaderI may be in a minority of people running a web site and still creating content by typing into a web page. I’ve decided to get “with it” and try a desktop blogging client. I’m giving BlogJet and Post2Blog a run. They have some wonderful features, one of the key selling points …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Desktop BloggingI’ve modified and specialized this website so much it’s rather ridiculous. I use .Text for the site, and it’s open source which is fun since you can change things, which I’ve done extensively. Now however I seem to have introduced a bug that keeps me from editing any post that is …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Now I've Made .Text UnhappyApplied a couple of upgrades to the blog this morning. Decent amount of work that will have absolutely zero impact on you the reader. 🙂 I did a decent amount of research on upgrading from my .Text blogging engine to it’s successor, Community Server. CS is now at 1.1 and it’s …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Blog UpgradesJust implemented some further spam protection to keep the evil doers at bay. I installed this great add-on that requires entering a validation code before providing feedback. I realize it is a bit of a pain, and sometimes the validation code is hard even for people to read, but it keeps those evil spammers away.
I’ve seen a huge increase in trackback spam to my sites lately. It’s now reached hundreds a day. I thought this was one or two hosts so I added a rule to snort to capture trackback spam and found it was coming from nearly all unique IP addresses. I’m guessing this is being …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Stopping TrackBack Spam with DotTextI stumbled across this on the Internet tonight. Guess I just never thought to check, but National Public Radio exposes a lot of content via RSS. Also, Minnesota Public Radio also has an RSS feed through them. Go get some good news feeds!
