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Updates November 2005



While I remember…
Smiley in denial! Have I Spammed you recently? Well, if so:

Nope, I almost never use Ackadia for email, haven't in over a year. No point really, as I've reported elsewhere, I get several Spam myself… A second, that is… Smiley afraid

No, I'm not kidding. I used to be very active going after those 'people' and as a reward I am on every mail list on earth, it seems. Not just paul@, but whole dictionaries of names. Apart from a few white listed incoming addresses everything is destroyed on arrival. If you email to complain, that gets eaten too. I really can't be bothered testing it again, but if I remove the kill filter on the mail server I get around 7,500 Spam an hour, all day, everyone day. In might round off over time, but at around 2 a second, that's 63 million Spam I get sent a year.
*Blinks and does the calculation again*
Well!
What can you do, eh Smiley sad




Latest and greatest, perhaps


Just created a new website I think a lot of you will like: ReviewMySite

The name says it all, really, eh! Like it says on the lid, this will be a community for reviews of YOUR web site(s) and blogs.

If you are anything like me, you will wander ant-like around of a trail of sites and forums, looking for ideas, hints, snippets of code or just insights. Wherever you go you will see a thread on 'site reviews'. Even the best of us can use a second opinion. You can spend weeks perfecting your site, then someone with a slightly older Mozilla or slightly newer Safari will happily point out it looks like a dogs dinner with this browser.

Well, if you go there and ask, I probably will, just like it says on the label!




WoHoo. I'm Frappr'ed Smiley Boggle!


Why not place yourself on the Ackadian world map. Feel free to leave your picture and comments.

Check out our Frappr!



What's in a name!


Not doing anything with them yet but I rather liked the names, so I've put my name to these domains:


If you are a regular, don't worry about the colour and menu's, I'm playing with the style sheets to see if it improves a few things. Think I'll make the Ackadia a soft green. Not today though, it's 3am about now!



Wohoo, I'm right, again! Analyse this...


Basically, a while ago Google bought up Urchin, a web analytics company. At the time (March 2005) I predicted they would release a version of it for free - and they have. WoHoo!

As these things go, Urchin - now known as 'Google Analytics rocks ad justified its high ticket price. And now it's free.

OK, it's seriously overkill for Mr and Mrs J. Public, but if you think web counter - on steroids - and you'll maybe, maybe get the idea. Think WebTrends, if you know the package

Hugs himself happily as his registration is approved.


8th November
Busy integrating the forum, blog and photo gallery into the top menu's…

*Mutter* … Note to self, simplify menu while I'm at it! Smiley boggling!

…

OK, menus sorted and the photo-gallery is looking something like.
*Rolls up sleeves and starts hacking the forum code*

*Mutter* The underlying code sucks, this is going to take a while! Now I remember why I kept putting it off. Still, I imagine the resulting template will be popular.

Hmmm. A walkthrough is in order. I shall write a Dummies guide to phpBB templates, with the starting point as the default subSilver style. Apologies if the forum layout is all over the place while you are online, but it REALLY needs doing! Smiley Eeek!

Note to self: Ditto for Google Blogger templates!