As I’ve mentioned before, I hate write-your-email-in-the-subject emails. Now that LifeHacker asks the questions once again, I’m ready with an answer.
Now, the question from my side is: should we repeat and promote such discussions once in a while to let the rest of the world know what we think, or should we quietly avoid them, not to give any ideas to the wrong-doers?
Anyone who had ever wrote more than 3 lines of code will tell you any time that all software has bugs. That’s just the way it is.
And while I don’t need any reminders of this fact (mainly due to me writing a lot of code at any given week), I got one special today.
A SPAM comment was posted to this blog, although you haven’t seen it because it went to moderation, that was clearly a result of a bug in SPAM software. The message contained a long list of phrases like ‘Thank you’, ‘Very interesting’, and ‘I bookmarked your blog’. Obviously these are intended for link SPAM. But they were supposed to be used one at a time. Oops.
You, my dear readers, might think that I don’t like you anymore. (I don’t publish as often as I used to. My post got shorter. And I tend to talk about obvious things too.)
That’s OK. I understand.
The truth of the matter is that I am extremely busy recently. And my blogging mood has changed significantly. I don’t post one entry a day anymore. But I still think of at least one every day. They accumulate in my brain and I post them later in bunches. I was doing this always to a certain degree.
It got a bit more difficult recently though. You see, I tend to rethink things that are in the pipeline. And with all my busyness lately I have a huge stream of incoming data that changes many aspects of my thinking. So instead of just writing up the post, I rethink it and put it further down the queue tagged “needs more work”. Many posts stay there until they expire.
Expiration feels very bad (like a lot of lost effort), but it is probably a good thing after all (less junk unleashed onto the world).
Anyway, I hope that this is temporary as so many things in the world.
P.S.: If you are too annoyed by this, here is a hint: there are so many good blogs out there…
I have deactived a whole bunch of plugins that weren’t used anymore or weren’t needed anymore for this site. Mostly these were related to statistical reports and text formatting.
This cleanup should make the site a little bit faster, because less database queries and less parsing operations are needed to display pages. Also, it should be easier for me to upgrade to newer versions of WordPress, as less things are likely to break.
I have checked around everything seems working as it used to. If you notice any problems or malfunctions, please let me know either via comments or the contact form (assuming, of course, that either of these works).
WordPress developers keep tempting me to upgrade – recently they have released version 2.0.1. More than a hundred bugs were fixed. No more negative feedback from user crowds.
If I wasn’t as busy as I am right now, I would have jumped on the update script already. But I just don’t have the time. Hopefully I will find some before the winter ends…