Archives for March 2005
Careful with that delete key Eugene!
Behind the scenes here at theclonchs.com, Drupal’s spam module has been busy keeping spam comments at bay. Well with the last wave of spam, I goofed. You might notice now that if you click on a comment to read it, there is nothing there.
Yeah, you guessed it. They’ve been deleted. I don’t think they’ve all been deleted, but my guess is that a good majority of them have been.
I’ll spare you the details on my blunder, but from now on I will be careful with my powers…
Please, NO hotlinking
Combing through the logs, I noticed some strange referrers. So I start to look into it and low and behold, someone made a post on some message board and hotlinked a picture from my site in their post. Please DO NOT do this! This wastes steals my (or anyone else’s) bandwidth and will only piss people off.
In case you don’t know, hotlinking is when you incorporate anything into a webpage (be it pictures, or other types of files) by linking it from someone else’s site. In my case, someone made a post with an inline image in it. Instead of uploading the picture to the message board, they linked the source of the image to my site. Now, every time someone reads the post, the message board goes out to my server to fetch the picture. Multiply this by hundreds upon hundreds of people that read the post, and you can begin to see the bandwidth drain it causes.
About: History of The Site
Est. circa 1999.
I created this site originally to house pictures of the kids for out-of-town relatives, and to share our family happenings. Since then the site has undergone many revisions, and perhaps feature creep, to arrive at what you access today.
Originally it was hand-coded out of rock hard HTML and hosted by my dial-up ISP. It featured a rough blog-ish news area and rudimentary photo gallery. After discovering blogging, and subsequently Blogger, I upgraded the news area to use Blogger.
Then Renee gave me the green light to upgrade our dial-up connection to broadband. With my interests in networking growing, I had been wanting to play around with server software (web, ftp, etc). I figured what better way to play around with server software, than running my own site. So I setup IIS and moved everything from the old ISP to my shiny new setup.
This is Out of this World
Just like everyone else who as read it, this post caused a big case of nostalgia. And likewise, I must thank Micheal for it, as I had forgot about that game for soo long.
I remember many late nights cursing that game under the heavenly glow of that 486. Was it luck or fate that allowed me to talk my father into setting up our first family computer in my room?
The game was very hard on more than one point. One hit/shot/bite and you were dead. No saving your game; you started from the beginning every time. And the game was not a side scroller, but just a side, no scrolling. When you reached the end of the screen, the whole screen was redrawn and you’d find out what was awaiting you then.