Finally Replaced Buzz with Google Plus Page
I finally found some time to replace the now deprecated Google Buzz with Google Plus. And it's probably a waste of time, but I'm just doing it out of completeness.My personal Google Plus account has...
View ArticleFacebook, Please Fix Your Comment Moderation Issues
I’ve switched over to Facebook’s comment system a while back. I did it for two reasons. First, offloading comments to a third party takes the load off my server. Second, I’m hoping to get some Facebook...
View ArticleAddThis Removes "via @addthis" Suffix in Tweets
I just noticed in the last couple of days that the sharing platform AddThis has removed “via @addthis” at the end of tweets using their widget. I use AddThis throughout the site. It’s a handy little...
View ArticleDowntime & How to Make a Repair Job on MySQL Go Faster
The site crashed yesterday morning at around 9am, although it’s hardly noticable until a couple hours later. I didn’t notice it until I started picking stories to feature on the homepage. Whenever i...
View ArticleAt Cannes Covering the Film Festival
You had probably noticed that the site was down for a couple hours on Monday and hadn’t been updated until this morning. I was on my way to the airport for Cannes and, of course, the site had to go...
View ArticleFinally, Replaced Digg with Reddit
I finally had to do it. I stuck with Digg for as long as I could. It’s the first social news site. Even after the infamous version 4, I stuck with them.A decent number of Digg's hardcore users had...
View ArticleCron Jobs and Feed Updates
Lately, we’ve been adding more local news feeds to the site. Eventually, I want to have most of the major cities across the U.S. covered. What I had noticed since starting this local news project was...
View ArticleRelieving High Server Load by Blocking Search Bots
Over the years, whenever the site was slow to load up, I always went through the same routine. I checked traffic logs to see if it was due to a sudden increase in traffic. If not, I would look at the...
View ArticleGoogle Malware Detection Tool, Thanks for Ruining our Christmas and New Year's
A couple days ago, I was checking out film blogger and columnist Jeffrey Wells’ Hollywood Elsewhere and learned that his site was blocked by Google Chrome and Firefox because those browsers suspected...
View ArticleWeekend Edition
After updating the site for seven days a week since the site was started years ago, I will be hands off during the weekends from now on. Because I don’t want the site to look too static, I’ve decided...
View ArticleMoved SimplePie File Caching to Database
A while back, My ISP told me my backups took half a day to complete, which is too long. If anything goes wrong during that period, the process would have to start all over again, which happened quite...
View ArticleFinally Upgraded Sites to Use New Hardware from Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double...
Around April, my VPS provider Linode announced that they’ve just finished a major $45M upgrade to their hardware and network, which means free upgrades for their existing users. The new hardware uses...
View ArticleBroken Feeds: Is RSS Going the Way of the Dinosaurs?
I’m been fixing a bunch of broken feeds since the new year. It started with CNN, which launched a redesign at the beginning of the year. At the time, all of their RSS feeds were broken as a result of...
View ArticleOy, Time to Get Back to Work
For the past three years (especially 2015), I’ve been neglecting my two websites: Wopular.com and MoviesWithButter.com. During that peroid, I worked in spurts: there were months when I was very active...
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