Category: Site News

SEO update for CB’s Hasty Musings

The top ten search phrases for this blog, via Google Analytics:

  1. naked fat men (corresponding link)
  2. fat men naked (same link as above)
  3. snow crash movie (corresponding link 1, 2)
  4. miami vice theme song (corresponding link)
  5. cosmic buddha (too many links to list)
  6. food carving (corresponding link 1, 2)
  7. fish sausage (corresponding link 1, 2, 3)
  8. fragalicious (corresponding link)
  9. adam was arrested for (corresponding link)
  10. sword tricks (corresponding link)

In addition, here are a few others I found interesting:

  • ramen vending machine
  • the devil is beating his wife
  • i hate disneyland
  • drink pee
  • too many mcs not enough mics
  • gory gory what a helluva way to die
  • bald women for buddha
  • tobita red light district
  • eating a dog recipes
  • ping pong handjob
  • society of the big buddha
  • the 4th cavalry pakistan
  • fake giant catfish in pickup truck
  • “des moines” tatami beds
  • iraq fishing
  • dachshund road kill
  • j lo interviews
  • dequervain’s tenosynovitis
  • hummingbird moth japan
  • how to date a white woman
  • buddhist pimp
  • why do japan “turn off their headlights” at intersections
  • “wakamezake”
  • buy pocari sweat monterey park
  • french sushi
  • name of japanese lint removal
  • penguin wrangler job
  • dethmor
  • “fairbank sykes”
  • invention no. 13 in a minor
  • la cucina povera
  • vintage ladies armpit hairs
  • “pet bottle” pronunciation
  • what happened to sambo’s restaurants
  • how to make a basby stop crying
  • bukkorosu
  • was amelia earhart a spy?
  • where to rent an elephant
  • photosof indian ladies who shaved their head for god sake
  • us ketchup problem in japan
  • stankometer

Now, I can pretty mcuh guess which posts each term correspond to, but I’m WAY too lazy to actually find the links. Curious about any of the terms above? Look them up on my search engine.

Best comment spam EVAR

Some maniac is, again, manually inserting comment spam in my recent posts. The thing is, I kinda dig his/her writing:

“It was pretty obvious you were suffering from lack of some desperate sex right here right now, and it didn’t cross my mind at first to just cut you downright. I became drugged with your silly nothings, was incredibly curious as to where you were going with all that crap. So I pissed you off a little, but went on roll and got everyone down on the slippery slope. I know who the bastards are now and no, thank you, never again. The tactile feeling is not that of a ballpoint pen, excuse me. One really feels like they are dying and watching their blood spill on a street littered by shit and scraps of trashy musings, it is actually very, very painful. You wouldn’t be able to tell by just watching from afar, as one in my position was watching their own execution, hurting, but not being able to speak, terrorized by the oppressors and the “police” above. You have no idea what the feeling is really like, and I can bet my life on it you never will. So, your stinging bits were felt alright, here and there, but you no what, I couldn’t stop myself. Because besides being utterly drugged, scared and confused, I became enraged, and taht’s what kept me going back for a few more scraps. But then I got a glimpse of what might have been a lapse on your part, but knew, just knew deep in my heart that you were up to something else. So I waited, and here you are. Questions?”

The best part? (S)he leaves no URL!

Small commenting change

Due to a huge spam attack yesterday, which took me a while to clean up, I’ve decided to add a small step to commenting – the good news is that it’s very easy for anyone to figure out. You can still comment anonymously and without leaving an email address, but I’m sorry to place any part of the burden created by viagra-selling assholes on my readers… Necessary evil and all that.

permission denied!

So this new anti-spam approach is such that pretty much all automated spam attempts are junked… but in less than a day, I’ve recorded over 20 spams entered by hand just on this blog and my brother’s! The funniest part of this is that none of those spam attempts were published to our blogs; they were automatically held for our approval by the system… Hell yeah!

Take off, you hosers.

Tweaks and Countermeasures

I’m fiddling with software settings in the background here, mostly to alleviate some of the hits our site is taking from comment spam, but also to improve usability on the admin side. If you have any problems with comments or notice anything strange, please let me know.
I have also folded my moblog and the School of Rice blogs into archives here and here to simplify things (since they are no longer updated).
Categories (on the sidebar) have been rearranged, but remain a poor way of finding specific posts. Using the search function is better for that. You can always contact me if you need help finding something; I can usually find specific posts fairly quickly.
I will get around to making this blog a bit easier on the eyes when I have the time (I’m quite tired of seeing this default MT template myself), however, function over form, as they say.
Update:
I’ve decided to disable all incoming Trackbacks, too. It was a long time in coming, but truly a pity. Fuck you, spammers.

Dreamhost Promo Code: COSMIC

UPDATE 12/2007: DREAMHOST HAS CHANGED THEIR PROMOTION SYSTEM. THE MAX YOU CAN GET DISCOUNTED NOW IS $50. SEE COMMENTS BELOW FOR DETAILS.
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I set up a Dreamhost promotion code today for a friend and I’d like to share it here because the code I used to sign up is apparently no longer active, and I know what a leap of faith it requires to use codes that are old or from a commercial website. Basically, the way Dreamhost referrals work is that you can get one-time payments of $97 or recurring payments of 10% for every person you refer… And you can pass as little or as much of that as you want as a discount to people you refer.
In my case, I choose not to make money off of this blog through advertising, as I have stated many times before. Although this isn’t really advertising, I choose not to make money this way, either, and I only provide this code so people who read this blog can save money. Therefore, I have set up a promotion code that passes on ALL the money I could earn on a referral as savings to whoever is signing up. The proof:
dreamhostpromo.jpg
L1 through L4 on the table correspond to Levels 1 (AKA “crazy domain insane”) though Level 4 on this page. As you can see, if you pay for 2 years of Level 1, the discount basically cuts the price of that package in half.
Anyway, I’m not here to sell Dreamhost’s service – it speaks for itself.
And once again, I’d like to make it clear that I’m not making money off of referrals – I’m doing it to save my readers money, period.
The Dreamhost promo code is: COSMIC
Enter it at time of sign up for your discount.
Disclaimer: Dreamhost is currently facing ongoing network problems. I trust they will be worked out just like they say.

Comments fixed

I just fixed the “Remember personal info?” function of the comments so it actually works now. For the record, the problem I had was fixed with the solution on this page. It happened when I upgraded, and I couldn’t figure it out until I had a couple spare hours to research it. So, have at it since you’re spared filling out the fields every time now!
The fix also fixed a script error that was appearing on individual entries when viewed with Internet Explorer. I hadn’t used IE for so long that the error simply went unnoticed!

MT Update

I updated MovableType to version 3.32 just now and it seems to be working a lot faster than the 3.31b version we were using before.
Anyway, now I have Widgets and StyleCatcher to play with, so you things might change around a bit; don’t be scared off. I might let my feminine side take control of this blog’s design for a couple days, but things will probably return to normal after the estrogen levels decrease.