I have updated the theme of the site. The theme is K2, a slick theme/framework. I had been using K2 since the beginning of the site, however I was several versions behind. The theme is a pretty basic theme that is fully customizable with CSS. I am not a very creative designer, so I doubt I will ever make it look that slick. This theme has an easy option to change the header image, so I’ll probably start with that eventually. This theme is now wider. The old one was optimized for 800×600 screens, this one is now optimized for 1024×768. Since 97% of the visitors to my blog had at least 1024 or higher this should make it easier for pictures and text to be displayed. Hopefully I will figure out how to customize it more. Any input on the theme is appreciated.
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Ok, not really, but I do know if somebody is looking at my site. When I stopped keeping my site up to date about a year and a half ago, I let the mint stats that I was keeping break. This past February I connected the site with google analytics. This is the website stats tool that google runs that they bought from Urchin a few years ago. It is a pretty good free stats tool, which seems to integrate well with adwords (which I don’t use). Now though, I wanted a little more real time stats as well as more flexibility. So I went back to Mint which is a great stats program. It does cost $30, but it is well worth the money. I would highly recommend it to anyone who runs their own website. There are numerous plugins that can be added to enhance the functionality, or you can write your own. My installation can also be hosted on my server, which I like. That gives me more control over the settings and allows me direct access to the database if I want to run queries. I am already getting addicted to watching my stats and seeing when I have visiters. Not that I have a lot of visiters, but I do have a couple of posts that get regular traffic. Watching my stats will probably help push me to post more useful articles. Please note that I do not give out the stats information nor do I have any way of identifying who you are while visiting my site.
I’m not sure if anyone really subscribes to and reads my feed (not much new stuff to read) but I noticed today that since upgrading wordpress a week ago, my feed was broken with feedburner. I downloaded the latest version of the feedburner plugin (I didn’t know google now owned feedburner) and modified the settings and my feed is back working now. Feel free to check it more often as I am now going to be more actively putting content on the site and interacting with it more.
I guess this proves what a procrastinator I am. 14 months after my last post, I finally started to make some changes to this site. I upgraded the backend to the latest version of Wordpress, 2.3.3. I also added Google Analytics so now I can finally track site stats. Unfortunatly the previous system I had broke well over a year ago, and I have no idea how the site has been used. I have been approving comments and cleaning up spam that got through, so I have a slight idea how things are going. As far as content, I always have a ton of thoughts floating around in my head that would warrant a good blog article, but since I am not a fan of writing and am also a bit of a slacker I may not get much up too often. Of course I have been very busy with other things the last year and a half and I should soon post a recap of what I have been up too.
I have finally created a JavaScript version of my C# password generator. The javascript version located here will generate multiple random passwords containing upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. Just hit the generate button to get your passwords. Remember your passwords and keep them in a safe place.
I have several ideas to extend the functionality of this tool, and I will work on them when I get time over the next few months. If you have any suggestions please let me know.
I like to monitor the stats for my website very closely, to see how visitors find the articles on my site. I have noticed that the majority of visitors come from google or some other search engine. I am a big fan of google and use it all the time. In wordpress, I use the google sitemap plugin to generate a sitemap and automatically submit it to google. But through keeping an eye on my mint stats (mint is the best stat program for a website ever), I have noticed that when I write a new article, there are no hits to that article from google for at least two weeks. For example, exactly two weeks ago, I wrote an article about memory dumps. The last two weeks, I have not received a single hit on that article from any searches on google. Tonight I suddenly received several hits on that article. I have also noticed this same thing with other articles that I have written. It doesn’t bother me that it takes two weeks for search results to find my articles, I just found it interesting. So if you are running a website just know that it will take two weeks for search results to return your site.
I bought a new domain name the other day. frank.vg I wanted to get a simpler domain to use for email. I currently use gmail for most of my mail, but I would like to start hosting my own email. frankdzedzy.com is too long and hard to spell to be an email address. Of course frank.com, and all the other top level domains are already taken. So I registered frank.vg, with Network Solutions. .vg is the tld for the British Virgin Islands. While I have no connection with the British Virgin Island (wish I was there though:) it is a nice simple domain name. Right now I pointed it to my website here. Eventually, I will probably use it for email, and maybe my home webserver. It would definitly be cool to get frank.com or frank.net though.
Welcome to my blog. Yes, I know there are over 100 million+ blogs on the Internet, but I figured I would start one too, since it must be a cool thing to do. I’ll probably post whatever I feel like, whenever I feel like it. Send me an email, if you have any comments about anything.