http://blog.lucanos.com A Collection of Plugins, Scripts, Tips and Tricks. As I learn, I will share, and I hope you will do the same. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:28:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am not sure whether I am alone in this, but I have noticed a slow increase in the number of notifications I am getting from Twitter, advising me that another user is now following me on their system. Especially as I am anything but an active Twitter user (predominantly ... http://blog.lucanos.com/2008/04/14/twitter-bots/ Some time ago I wrote about rationalising my hosting accounts, and bundling the vast majority into MediaTemple as a result of their Grid-Server product and the 100 domains they allow hosted under the one account (with quite generous bandwidth limits). At that time, I had two "Unlimited" accounts with Precision-Media.net ... http://blog.lucanos.com/2008/04/10/unlimited-bandwidth-the-aphrodisiac-of-the-noughties/ How, you may ask? Simple, I say - I was Hacked. The logs I have managed to extract from my server are sketchy at best, but I was lucky enough to be assisted by Kevon of TailRank.com who was very generous with his time and clued me into why I ... http://blog.lucanos.com/2008/04/08/33000-hits-and-over-14gb-of-traffic-in-two-days/ Just looked at my Google Adsense account for an update on whether the adverts I am showing here are making any income for me. Almost 5,000 impressions = $0.98 in my account. Yep, they're going to be removed rather promptly. Just not worth it when they are paying about US 20c ... http://blog.lucanos.com/2007/07/31/adsense-nonsense/ But, better one secure basket than 3 insecure ones! Well, I have taken the leap of faith - I have finally decided to start consolidating alot of my internet real estate into a single, or at least as few as possible, providers. The motivation for this was from a number of sources, ... http://blog.lucanos.com/2007/05/14/putting-all-my-eggs-into-one-basket/ It's surprising how far we have come with regards to web development in such a short amount of time. I can remember the good/bad old days of monochrome displays, bulletin-boards which you needed to know the phone number to dial into using your 9,600 baud rate modem, arrangements where you ... http://blog.lucanos.com/2007/04/29/basic-rules-for-web-sites/ It's incredibly frustrating - you have an idea for a site, and a product, and you are trying to figure out how marketable and "boomable" it is, so you start looking for domains. Something new, something simple - like a YouTube, or a MySpace, or something like that... But, you're months ... http://blog.lucanos.com/2006/11/16/cyber-squatters-a-waste-of-webspace/ That's It! Tired of it! It really makes you wonder when, today, people still keep on spamming you with emails and blog comments trying to sell you medication or whatever... How the hell do they make enough money to survive? I know I have never bought anything I have been spammed ... http://blog.lucanos.com/2006/08/03/bloody-spammers/ I recently installed the Google Desktop application. Why not? I mean, Google revolutionised the searching of the internet, I'm sure they could do wonderful things to help me manage and search my computer. ... Well, the searching is pretty funky - when you search for a string through the Google webpage it ... http://blog.lucanos.com/2006/07/05/google-desktop-bloat/ I found a site which had a very good regular expression to test email addresses, at http://www.codetoad.com/asp_email_reg_exp.asp. However, one slight modification to their original test, which has been annoying me a bit as of late, is the addition of the plus symbol "+" as an acceptable character in the middle of ... http://blog.lucanos.com/2006/06/10/email-regular-expression/