walls of the city

I have been up to a few random things around the webpage recently, and I thought I would take a moment to document them all (ater all, this is my webpage, so I can do those kinds of things). [...]

Just a reminder, but the various RSS feed options at “walls of the city” are currently located at http://www.wallsofthecity.net/feed and http://www.wallsofthecity.net/feed/atom. Please update your reading software / bookmarks / whatever appropriately – yes, the old [...]

… or, at least, internal-404-free.

Thanks to the efforts of the Broken Link Checker for WordPress, I was able to go through the site and isolate any HTML-related 404 errors. Image-related errors may still be in [...]

So, for those of you who know more about WordPress and its internals than I do, I have two quick questions:

1. How does one edit the text that gets sent along as the post excerpt for pingbacks? [...]

If you ever wanted to know what the colors on your webpage are saying to your readers, here is a quick and easy guide, with some other helpful information here and here. Guess [...]

Note to self: mod_rewrite and mod_alias are nowhere near as easy as they look.

Also, order matters. [...]

As you can see, after a few fits-and-starts, “walls of the city” appears to be fully functional again. Yes, the theme is going to change over the coming days/weeks, but it will settle back down again.

Unfortunately, those [...]

So after dorking around with WordPress over the past 48 hours, the decision has been made.
Movable Type loses.
This is the second and possibly the third time that MT has released a non-beta version of their [...]

So after futzing around with the WordPress incarnation of “walls of the city”, I have to admit that I am seriously cosidering abandoning MovableType alltogether.
Ever since MT moved up to 3.0, and started seriously pushing [...]

A WordPress version of “walls of the city” is currently hot-and-fresh over at its new home. Feel free to poke, prod, and try to break it, but be aware that anything you do there will [...]

It would appear as though the upgrade to Movable Type 5.0 went off more-or-less successfully… with a few problems that I need to discuss with (and apologize for to) my co-authors.
Comments, however, appear to be a momentary [...]

This webpage will be upgrading to Movable Type 5.0 over the course of the next few hours. If something is broken in those next few hours, I did it. Likewise, static pages will be available throughout the upgrade process, [...]

One of the worst aspects of comment spam? For that brief time between GMail informing me that a “walls of the city”-related email has been shunted off to its appropriate folder, and me actually clicking on the message in [...]

It probably took more time and effort than it was worth, but my blogroll is now nothing more than an HTML list on my webpage, rather than the BlogRolling monstrosity it used to be. What does this mean to [...]

It seems as though Everyday, No Days Off is going to start offering its full post data in its RSS feeds – given my previous stance on the issue (with bonus irony!), I guess I will [...]

In case I have not made myself clear in the past, as of this new year, I have stopped reading any weblog that does not publish its entire posts in its RSS feed. If you are not [...]

For those who are concerned with such things, do not forget to update your website’s/weblog’s copyright dates for the new year. Not that people really pay attention to such things these days, but [...]

Once again, we are going to look at the performance and statistics of this particular webpage over the last year. Just like the last time we did this, I am going to use Google Analytics data, with the repeated [...]

According to various archiving systems on the cortex, I started my particularly nasty habit of defacing the internet with my scribblings during the week of 08DEC02, making this month actually my seventh anniversary of weblogging (rather than

If you are interested in such things, or curious about them, a VeriSign employee by the name of Mr. Joseph A’Deo has offered to answer any questions my readers might have about GunPal’s recent VeriSign [...]

Over 2200 posts.
Over 2700 comments.
Over 138,000 visits.
I guess I can live with those kinds of numbers. To everyone who has stopped by my little corner of the cortex in those past four years, [...]

So for those folks out there who are concerned about the design of their particular webpages, this is a relatively interesting little tool.
The full explanation is available here, but it basically boils down to [...]

JayG seems to have found a remarkably lucrative business model for his weblog: say a few honest things about a company’s products, and that company sends him well over $500 in random products [...]

Huh. If you ever want to be on the receiving end of a 1700+ hit hybrid tamcle-alanche, just put up a few pictures and a positive review of a decent mid-grade custom holster, especially if [...]

Better Half and I were talking about this last night, and I figured I should go ahead and put up another post reminding everyone about it – there are multiple authors at this weblog: me (Linoge), WizardPC, [...]

Seems as though Dreamhost is having some issues with their servers getting overloaded… I am fairly certain it is not my fault, but my site is periodically going down for no apparently good reason. Bear with it, and it [...]

A long, long time ago, I can still remember, how I generated up a endorsement disclosure statement to cover my ass… Turns out, I was only a little ahead of the game.
So, I guess [...]

Sometime early this morning, “walls of the city” had its 100,000th visitor. W00t. Thanks to everyone who stopped by, even those who were unwittingly sent here by unrelated Google [...]

If you link to my webpage, and I do not link to your webpage by way of my blogroll to the right, please drop me a comment or an email at “linoge (at) wallsofthecity (dot) [...]

My quaint little webpage had an interesting visitor yesterday:

The first oddity is that someone from the US Department of State was web-browsing weblogs from a work computer on Saturday. The second oddity is [...]

Thanks to some (snarky) generosity from his son, BobS is moving. Update your targeting solutions [...]

As you all might have noticed by now, if you are viewing these posts at the actual “walls of the city” webpage (and not through an RSS feeder), all post titles and metadata are now preceeded followed by usericons [...]

Getting freaked out at random posts showing up at your weblog is understandable… at least, assuming you have not already given other people author privileges. Then it is just plain silly.
Momentary WTF moment aside, welcome [...]

So, I believe a few announcements are in order, given the things that have been going on here over the past few days/weeks.
1. First and foremost, I have convinced WizardPC to start guest-authoring here periodically. Regular readers [...]

When doing a Google search for “walls of the city“, the first hit is predictably this site, but how does one go about adjusting what shows up in the two columns of links under it?
Example:

Anyone else noticed a marked uptick in email spam recently? Have to give them credit for situational awareness, though, given that they are advertising Tamiflu [...]

Apparently I said something interesting yesterday, and it is featured over at Secretlivesofscientists’ Weblog.
Shiny. And for that ego-boosting cut-and-paste, into the blogroll/RSS feeder with [...]

This post is mostly directed at the BlogSpot users of the universe, but quite a few other webloggers out there could stand to take notice.
Please, please, please make sure you RSS feed carries the full text of [...]

For those interested in tracking such things, I went ahead and separated out all of my posts concerning the Commercial Appeal and their privacy-invading database of handgun carry permit holders into its own category, visible on the [...]

Well, Blogrolling was supposed to be operational again yesterday.
Then it was supposed to be operational today.
Now, it might be operational tomorrow.
*headdesk*
So, this is relevant for two reasons. First, [...]

I find it somewhat ironic that the shortest month of the year is also my most prolific, and that it received the highest amount of traffic, ever, for my website.
I guess I should thank the