Michael P. O'Connor archive
Category : Web Site

Should I allow an ad here

Categories: Web Site
Comments: 3 Comments
Published on: May 31, 2006

Today I got an email from some one that wants to put an ad on my web site. I will say I am happy that they are not just spamming my site, so I will give them a plus there. But I am thinking I wish to decline it, since my site is one of[…]

Post #1000

Categories: Blog Stuff, Web Site
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Published on: May 27, 2006

Well this is the 1000th post to this blog, well according to the database. This blog started back on July 2 of 2004 It has been almost 2 years and I have put in 1000 posts (that includes this post) I wonder what the next 1000 posts to this blog will contain, and where the[…]

Lack of posts

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Published on: May 10, 2006

I know, I have not been putting many posts up, I have been busy, busy, busy. I hope to be more attentive to my blog. Maybe if I put it in my Palm Pilot like I have almost every other thing I try to attend to, it will get more attention. Hum lets see my[…]

Notes about the blog

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Published on: May 7, 2006

Sorry I have not been updating as much as I had in the past. There is a reason for this. As I have started a new job, that is further from where I live, and I am trying to pick up a instrument, I have really cut my free time down. I will update as[…]

Some one does not like my anti-spam stuff

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Published on: May 7, 2006

The other day I got the following email: I wrote you a nice comment on your printer post but your jerky software told me it was spam and deleted my text. How do you expect to get any useful comments?! The person had in the subject: your jerky anti-spam thing on your blog Well to[…]

This should stop the defacement of my video section

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Published on: March 24, 2006

I have set the promotion of the uses in the database for me video section to select only, if I need to add something I can change it for the time that I need to, then reset it. But for now in the video section the promotion is set to select only, that why the[…]

My Video section

Categories: Web Site
Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: March 21, 2006

Does any one know of any good web aps for sharing videos, I am getting tired of child hackers defacing the phpNuke site I have, and I am thinking the best thing will be to change the video section to something else, instead of having to upload a backup of the database ever few days.[…]

Todays St Patrick’s Day Parade

Categories: Ham Radio, Web Site
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Published on: March 11, 2006

Well I got to help out with the St. Patrick’s Day Parade today. I also took my camera, and when there was a moment that I could snap pictures I did so, I got some pictures of people, that some in the Pittsburgh region might recognize. You can see the pictures here on my photo[…]

Sorry about the comment problems yesterday

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Published on: March 7, 2006

Yesterday, I added more text that would cause a comment to be automaticly dropped. Well I forgot the ending ) on one of the lines. So I appologize to every one since the comment sections was not working. All this work to try to stop spammers don’t they get it, they are one of the[…]

The test failed

Categories: Blog Stuff, Web Site
Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: March 1, 2006

I was hoping that the anti-spam things I had put in place would have alowed me to stop blocking IP address, but I was getting more then 100 spam comments a day so I had to reblock all the address I had blocked before, I am sure glad I had backed up my .htaccess file.

Testing

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Published on: February 27, 2006

I have had some good experience with the 2 new additions to my spam blocking. So I am going to put the full test to it, I have renamed my .htaccess file, and have turned off the IP blocking. I am going to see if the new anti-spam things I put in place will work.[…]

New Logo for my site, a new icon for me

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Published on: February 23, 2006

They say a picture is worth a 1000 words. So with that in mind I have worked on a new icon for myself. I hope that maybe some day it will become synonymous with me, just as many know my by mpop, and when they hear mpop or see mpop they think of me, these[…]

Hockey/Olympic warning

Categories: Blog Stuff, Hockey, Web Site
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Published on: February 13, 2006

I am going to try to watch as many of the Hockey games for the Olympic as I can, and I will probably blog about them. I am hoping that the US wins both the Women’s and Men’s ones. You will see at first a lot about the Woman’s hockey team since the Men are[…]

I am going to try it

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Published on: February 13, 2006

I am going to turn on comments that don’t have any HTML code in them, will go live, I will do a trial run for the next week or so. If i find that I get to many spam posts that are going live, I will shut down the test, if things go well I[…]

Attack of the spammers

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Published on: February 6, 2006

First I saw Rob over at unspace state that he saw a jump in the amount of spam on his blog, and today, I been getting about 10 to 20 spam messages a every 10 minutes.

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