Category: Site-Related

  • this space intentionally left blank 😛

    yeah yeah, someday maybe i’ll start posting again… until then, this page serves the main purpose, which is having my contact info… additionally, it has plenty of links i feel are worth sharing with the world and gives me a place to direct people to to get the pics i take and such… the pics continue to get uploaded, but, i am too lazy to name them descriptively these days (or make posts about them), so, you have to REALLY want to see something to go digging in there…

    anyway, i just started a new route/schedule at work, so, maybe i’ll have more time to actually make posts…
    or maybe not…
    we’ll see…

    (of course, you can always check out my old blog from back when i posted stuff all the time…)

  • breaking the silence

    so, do you want to hear a REALLY depressing story about the last six months of my life?

    no, i don’t either…

    and, honestly, i am sick of the story…

    those who were readers of my site know i didn’t really get into my personal life, anyway, so, no reason to start now, let’s just move on to the current status of this site…

    yes, after a long absence, i am back with a new isp, new host, new hardware, and, finally, DSL… due to a new schedule that is overflowing with commitments, my online presence will only be VERY part-time, but here i am again…

    firstly i should say that much of the site probably won’t work right… the chatterbox, the search, probably some links, entire sections of the site missing… oh, and speaking of, due to circumstances WAY beyond my control, all the photos and media files are gone… yes, every pic from the last four years is gone forever, if anyone out there happens to have any copies, make my day and let me know… a while back, i suspected there was a possibility of an impending loss, so, i was able to make a backup of my blog and a couple other text sections of the site, so, they survived… and photos from the last six months will be uploaded next week some time…

    it is going to take some time to get everything up and working again, so, if you go poking around, expect some surprises… i still have to poke around myself and see what does and doesn’t work… and, i just installed the latest wordpress on my server, so, i may switch over, we’ll see…

    anyway, great to be back, even if in a somewhat limited capacity…

  • search terms that bring people here

    see, we have now added several thousand words to our site with these blogs, so, we show up more in search results, so, we are getting many many more hits…
    and, following the tradition of posting interesting keywords, here are some that i thought were odd or cool or whatever…

    let me get our regular keyword stuff out of the way first…

    for as long as we have had our collection online, we get lots of hits from people looking for dreamcast stuff, since our dreamcast page has a lot of stuff, a few rare items people would be looking for, full titles, and even catalog numbers… dreamcast-related searches are our biggest bringers of traffic…

    next, or maybe tied, would be all the searches for porn using google image search… you see, the directory of pics from when we saw a band called “Bozo Porno Circus”, every pic has “porno” in the filename…

    we also get a surpring number of hits for people looking for the “sounds from hell” wav file that is in our wav directory…

    recently, we have also been getting some hits from people searcing for movie titles, and a few for bands we have mentioned here and there on the site…

    and, with my recent posts on the subject, we are pulling in some mp3 blog-related searches…

    ok, now for the singularities…

    whisper dish
    mentioned in the post from when we went to alamogordo…

    jesse diaz pastor las vegas
    mentioned in my recent post about our wedding…

    virtual drugs
    yeah, made a post about that…

    clive barker signing pics forbidden planet
    whoa… huh?
    i assume those terms match to the “horror night” post, but, i have no clue what this guy was looking for…

    what is the k-pax alternate ending plot spoiler
    so, lemme’ think… probably the “list of movies we have seen” post and the “horror night” post appear on the same archive page and have all those terms between them…

    talking cat video
    whoa, now that is a weird one… i would have to poke around a bit to figure out where they landed…

    intitleindex.of mp3 chab
    this may be the oddest one… who would be looking for mp3’s and chabs simultaneously?
    though, both are in our media directory, i don’t know anyone else besides us who keeps voice chabs online…
    or is there a band called chab?
    (btw, for non-dc’ers, “Ch@b”, sometimes spelled “Chab” in casual use, is a japanese instant messager service, and is built in to japanese Dreamcast browsers… it is the only real IM choice for dreamcast browser users…)

    limpbizkit.mid
    i thought the midi craze was over… we have not added any to our collection in a long time, and only have this one for something like historical value, in that it is the first midi we ever in heard…

    amarillo yard signs
    argh! does this mean someone knows the story behind these??? or are they also searching for the answer?

    archived yahoo webcam feeds
    i don’t get this one, either… feeds are live, not archived, and what is a ‘yahoo webcam’?
    nor can i think off the top of my head where they might have landed on our site using these terms… though, now that i think about it, i bet most or all of those terms appear in the sidebar of every page of my blog here…

    dreameye homebrew
    well, THAT would be nice… but, i don’t think anyone is working on it…

    angelfire briefcase links page
    don’t get this one… what is an angelfire briefcase? i know yahoo briefcases, but, not angelfire… and are they searching for a page of links TO angelfire briefcases? i just don’t get it…
    anyway, the terms all probably appear on our sitemap…

    penn jillette pc computing
    good to know someone else reads them… (you can read tem, too, if you follow the “Penniphile” link on my sidebar…)

    so, nothing TOO terribly exciting, but, we are just gettin started here and many more words will be added as months roll by, which means man more interesting search terms…
    so, i will post about this again in the future…

  • (bump!)

    and with that, the huge pics post is knocked off the front page…
    (i ran out of things i had been meaning to post…)

  • so, we both have a homepage/blog now

    more like a combination blog and homepage…
    she has wanted a new homepage for a very long time… she had one that was way out of date and she didn’t like it, so, her homepage just redirected to her livejournal, but, now she has a homepage and blog at http://insidiousplots.com/missmary…

    i have never had a homepage of my own before, so, this will be it, and i am pretty sure i wll stick with the address i moved it to this morning, http://insidiousplots.com/him…

    once we are fully satisifed and confident that we are going with these, we will change the links on our shared homepage…

    in further testing news, i have found that i cannot edit these posts once they are published…
    that is annoying…

    and that chatterbox on the left over there seems to only work part of the time…
    also annoying…

  • i am loving this

    the more i tweak this thing, the more i love it…

    i have been adding links over there on the left, trying to be very very discriminating, since there is also the orrl that i prefer to put links in…

    i found out it is a bug that there are no comments with the posts made via email…
    worse, i cannot post using dpp, and i can’t with the psion browser because it cannot accept the login cookie… on livejournal, post and comment forms have name/password boxes above them…
    i could probably use opera on psion and do it…
    i am thinking about going with a comment service, i already have an account with one, can’t remember the name… it’s the big one, though…

    anyway, i continue to tinker and will see if it becomes something i want to seriously go with and link to it from the hompage…

  • grrr, no comments on email posts

    at least, i can’t find an option for it and it ain’t showing up…

    this post is using the web-based form… i see i have a title space now, i set an option for it…

    man… i figured mail was how i was going to do it most of the time…
    must look into this…

  • ah, ok…

    i changed the setting so anyone can post comments…
    i also confirmed that it is set to “new posts have comments by default” and it
    was before, so, i don’t know what is up…
    maybe it just does not apply to email posts…

    also, one odd thing… i keep getting bounce notices on these messages,
    saying they are too big… yet, they are clearly not actually bouncing, since
    they are showing up here…

  • so, here is an html test

    let’s see here…

    blocked text

    centered text

    link

    an image…

    and a javascript alert

  • wtf, google!?

    [moved from my LiveJournal]

    Current Mood: irritated
    Current Music: Close Encounters of the Third Kind Collector’s Edition Soundtrack

    i just don’t get google sometimes…

    http://www.google.com/search?q=insidious_plots

    our new domain name never appears in the results, though, i CAN find a cached version of it…
    hmmm, well, i went to get a link and now it seems google does NOT have a cached version… though, oddly enough, it has a copy of our CURRENT hp on our new domain, yet google says it is a copy of our our PREVIOUS address on earthlink… right page, wrong address… timelines and dates have not been clear in my head lately, but, i know for a fact that it is the new page from the new host at the new name because of a couple clues… for instance, the photos link goes to “/photos…”, not “/media/photos…”, which we changed when we moved to the new host…

    weird things aside, i don’t get why our new domain name is not showing up… i guess it is a page rank thing, and the site is new… and, btw, my logs say googlebot has been there…
    blah…