January Site News

January 17, 2009 by
Filed under: Web Announcements 

Cold enough for you?

Okay, okay, you can stop throwing things! I don’t like this stuff any more than you do.

Back in the November site news I wrote that I was confused by the number of non-local registrations:

But lately there’s been an influx of registrations from yahoo.co.uk and today it’s the largest represented single domain with 31 registrations. The reason for the sudden surge in interest from Yahoo’s UK & Ireland users is beyond me.

I looked into it a little and it appears that several of these registrations were machine generated – bots and stuff – that some use to boost the page rank of their own sites. So over the past couple of months I’ve put some countermeasures in place that seem to have curtailed the practice. So if you’re tried to register and have been stonewalled, that might be why. Drop me a line for help. There’s no harm in having the dummy registrations around, but I may clean them up at some point just to keep things tidy.

I also mentioned that I’d be moving the attachments – documents, images and the like – to standard locations instead of the scheme I dreamed up before the software had built-in support. That work’s been done for a while and I haven’t heard any complaints. It must have been successful.

Don’t forget, if you visit infrequently yet still want to know when new material appears you can still subscribe via RSS! There are separate streams for postings and comments, so you won’t miss a thing.

I know it’s hard to believe it with the temperature hovering around ten degrees, but the warm weather isn’t all that far away anymore. Here are a couple of pictures (click to enlarge, click again for full-size). In the meantime, throw another log on the fire.

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