gonad.org » Site Updates http://gonad.org Hello. I am a collector of internets. Wed, 16 May 2012 14:44:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 RAGE! http://gonad.org/2012/05/16/rage/ http://gonad.org/2012/05/16/rage/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 14:42:17 +0000 justin http://gonad.org/?p=1004 For no particular reason, I’ve removed the RSS link to my tumblr and all the posts that made their way to gonad.org from it.

Edit:  Also updated to WordPress 3.3.2.

]]> http://gonad.org/2012/05/16/rage/feed/ 4 I’m clicking buttons http://gonad.org/2012/01/02/im-clicking-buttons/ http://gonad.org/2012/01/02/im-clicking-buttons/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:48:42 +0000 justin http://gonad.org/?p=679 Continue reading »]]> Be gone with you, J-List and Google ads!  You shall enlengthen my sidebar no more!

Seriously, other than a chunk of store credit from J-List a few years back, these ads have provided nothing.  As this site has no readers, and therefore no one to click on the adds, I figured it would be better to just remove them.  I shall think of them as a failed experiment.

Also, I added a “Ponies” category, to indulge my deepest desires to post all the ponies.

Updated some plugins and WordPress to the current version (automatically, nothing exciting or labor intensive there).

Hmm..

Edit: Oh-ho!  I am now pulling in posts from my tumblr via RSS using the FeedWordPress plugin.  How.. useful.

]]> http://gonad.org/2012/01/02/im-clicking-buttons/feed/ 0 Dave has inspired me to click several buttons http://gonad.org/2011/06/06/dave-has-inspired-me-to-click-several-buttons/ http://gonad.org/2011/06/06/dave-has-inspired-me-to-click-several-buttons/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:25:58 +0000 justin http://gonad.org/?p=470 Continue reading »]]> I took a solid 5 minutes and removed the approximately 100 fake spambot users that had registered since the last time I got pissy and removed them. Also, I’ve installed SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam, which will hopefully prevent at least some of the damnable bots from returning.

It’s only enabled on the registration page and related pages.

AS NO ONE COMES HERE, I’M SURE THIS WILL NOT BE A PROBLEM.

]]> http://gonad.org/2011/06/06/dave-has-inspired-me-to-click-several-buttons/feed/ 0 As you can see, I have become cultured http://gonad.org/2011/04/13/as-you-can-see-i-have-become-cultured/ http://gonad.org/2011/04/13/as-you-can-see-i-have-become-cultured/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:14:36 +0000 justin http://gonad.org/?p=421 Continue reading »]]> As a worldly gentleman, as indicated by my camels and pyramids — they are mine, I’m not lying — I thought it was high time to refreshenLOLOLOL up around here.

Er, actually, I took some time to WIDGETIZE all my old crap in the sidebar. This means I can arbitrarily change to silly themes at the drop of a hat, huzzah!

This makes my site look so professional that the (anti-?)gobs of useless (non-?)content is almost a non-issue! Here’s a few more parentheses: )((())()())))(

Internets, ilu.

]]> http://gonad.org/2011/04/13/as-you-can-see-i-have-become-cultured/feed/ 1 Instachats, Digsby style http://gonad.org/2009/12/22/instachats-digsby-style/ http://gonad.org/2009/12/22/instachats-digsby-style/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:38:46 +0000 justin http://gonad.org/?p=349 I added a Digsby-powered chat applet on the sidebar. I’m not sure why, as the sidebar already contains several dozen items that should be removed.

At least it was ridiculously easy!

Feel free to send lewd and/or interesting messages to me in your free time, internets.

]]> http://gonad.org/2009/12/22/instachats-digsby-style/feed/ 0 Theme updated, horray! http://gonad.org/2008/03/16/theme-updated-horray/ http://gonad.org/2008/03/16/theme-updated-horray/#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:51:51 +0000 justin http://gonad.org/2008/03/16/theme-updated-horray/ Continue reading »]]> I took some time to update gonad.org’s WordPress theme, Vistered Little, to the newest version.  There was an evil security flaw in the version I had been using, though I’m nearly a year behind in noticing this.

My idea of “taking some time” is grepping through some php and css, and haphazardly pasting bits here and there.  It appears I did this without breaking anything, and even allowed everything that was previously working to continue doing so (as far as I can tell).  Quite an accomplishment.

I shall fiddle with the wallpaper images later!

Edit:

D’err.. I think the shoutbox is broken for registered users (which means mostly me!!)!  I’ll fix tomorrow :[

]]> http://gonad.org/2008/03/16/theme-updated-horray/feed/ 2 No, I won’t sit still ’til I’m upside down in the back of your eyes http://gonad.org/2008/03/06/no-i-wont-sit-still-til-im-upside-down-in-the-back-of-your-eyes/ http://gonad.org/2008/03/06/no-i-wont-sit-still-til-im-upside-down-in-the-back-of-your-eyes/#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:39:02 +0000 justin http://gonad.org/2008/03/06/no-i-wont-sit-still-til-im-upside-down-in-the-back-of-your-eyes/ Continue reading »]]> So, yeah.. I was going to bed, but then I had this great idea to upgrade WordPress and all my freakin’ plugins. So I did. It was relatively painless but time consuming.

It seems WordPress now has tagging and other useful features I haven’t yet noticed! Exciting times, let me tell you.

Lastly, have some Hellsing Ultimate OVA 4 ending:

Generally, I don’t really care much for Nazis… but in marching catboy form? Yeah, I can dig it.

You march around that globe, Schrodinger. World domination is a-okay by me! *thumbs up*

]]> http://gonad.org/2008/03/06/no-i-wont-sit-still-til-im-upside-down-in-the-back-of-your-eyes/feed/ 0 Image uploader, reborneth! http://gonad.org/2006/11/30/image-uploader-reborneth/ http://gonad.org/2006/11/30/image-uploader-reborneth/#comments Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:49:00 +0000 justin http://gonad.org/2006/11/30/image-uploader-reborneth/ Continue reading »]]> I finally took the time to do this:

Long story short, someone exploited the uploading script I was previously using for my image uploading site. A backdoor was installed, giving them full reign over my account on the server which this site is hosted. Luckily, I caught this before anything malicious could happen, but needless to say, I was not pleased at the event.

While running this site for the past few years, I have enjoyed watching it grow, and have had a good time tinkering with it (mostly behind the scenes, many times banning the seemingly endless supply of Brazillian porn forums.. hmm).

Right before disabling the old uploading script, the site had peaked in usage with 8.4 MILLION requests (which includes each time an image is requested from a remote site, etc) with over 60,000 page views in one month. This may sound like small bananas compared to many sites, especially the multitude of hosting sites availible these days, but watching MY site (the site with nothing but a textbox for a filename and an upload button) get to there, from nothing, was exciting.

After the exploit, I honestly wasn’t planning to fix the site any time soon. When I came across Uploader only a few minutes ago, though, I was inspired to get things rolling again.

You do have to register an account to upload now, but registration is open to anyone. Please give it a shot.

Enjoy the uploading :)

-Justin

The old address (http://gonad.org/upload) now redirects to the new http://upload.gonad.org. Sleep now.

]]> http://gonad.org/2006/11/30/image-uploader-reborneth/feed/ 0 More shoutbox shenanigans http://gonad.org/2006/09/17/more-shoutbox-shenanigans/ http://gonad.org/2006/09/17/more-shoutbox-shenanigans/#comments Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:13:23 +0000 justin http://gonad.org/2006/09/17/more-shoutbox-shenanigans/ Continue reading »]]> I previously updated my shoutbox to add some spam blocking functionality. Although this worked well for manually banning spammer IPs (and synchronizing spammer IP lists from other blogs using the same shoutbox), spam still came in by the dozen now and then, sporting more and more IPs each time. I just banned 25 or 30 IPs today.

Pierre was nice enough to leave a comment about his updated version of Jalenack’s shoutbox, which combines some of the IP blocking functionality of JohnPuPu, plus many other spam-fighting and bug-fix updates, and a few new features.

I’m trying it out now. So far, so good!

]]> http://gonad.org/2006/09/17/more-shoutbox-shenanigans/feed/ 4 Yo, peep dis! http://gonad.org/2006/08/30/yo-peep-dis/ http://gonad.org/2006/08/30/yo-peep-dis/#comments Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:54:01 +0000 justin http://gonad.org/2006/08/30/yo-peep-dis/ Continue reading »]]> I installed this nice little Gravatars plugin, and added avatars to comments, posts, and the author pages (here’s mine, for example).

You (yes, all two of you.. maybe three) can get you own avatar by signing up at Gravatar.com, using the same email address you use for your gonad.org account. Alternatively, you can manually specify an image on your profile page. As of right now, you can’t directly upload an image as your avatar, but that’s for another day’s tinkering. (If you’re clever, you could use the post editor upload function to upload an image to be used as your avatar, I suppose..)

I’ve been inspired by the “Top WordPress Plugins” list, so I’ll be adding more fun plugins soon. :D :D

PS: Typos be damned!

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