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Ya gotta love search engines! I had a new comment left on an entry from over a year ago by Clayton who said he found my site while looking for CSS tutorials (like I know anything!) and so I thought I’d have a look at my webstats.  Here are the top searches that bought people to my site………..

? i love hairy men

? telling the babys sex on a scan

? baby at 20 weeks

? grannie sex

? hairy

? click smilies

? hairy women

? what increases sperm count

? sore arse

? hairy men

LOL!

… NOT!

Mind you I hacked my first pMachine backend file today!

Not a big deal….. I have set up a 26 things site for my friend Jay (look familiar?) and because PM doesn’t have popup comments I had to find a hack to do it. Found popup stuff easily enough but if you use a different page in the popup window PM still loads the standard comments page when you preview or submit the comments – bummer.  I found what I needed to change in the file that contains the commenting backend code OK but it only works for one weblog so that left Jay with a commenting page that didn’t return to itself.  I though I could let it go…….

Anyway long story short – I found a command called elseif and figured that might work – and it did! so now Jay and I both have comment pages the way I wanted them to work.

This is all I had to do – change this:

$returnto .= get_pref(“comments_page_$weblog”);

to this (most of this from the web):

if($weblog == “26things”) {

$returnto .= “../26things/pop_comments.php”;

} else {

$returnto .= get_pref(“comments_page_$weblog”);

}



to this:



if($weblog == “26things”) {

$returnto .= “../26things/pop_comments.php”;

} elseif($weblog == “jay”) {

$returnto .= “../../jay/pop_comments.php”;

} else {

$returnto .= get_pref(“comments_page_$weblog”);

}

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02 July 2002 – 2,222 hits

26 Sept 2002 – 5,000 hits

04 June 2003 – 15,000 hits!!!!

Not really Thanks to Lynda I now have the 5 most recent entries on the left.

As a bit of silliness I also have a random saying/quote If you have any favourite sayings or quotes let me know and I can add them to the database.

Well that was fun! As you may (or may not) have noticed this blog has been down for about 15 hours!  I had asked my web-host to enable GD in the PHP build on the server that I run on.  Unfortunately enabling version 2 of GD seemed to have an extremely detrimental effect on any PHP related hence there being static pages available but no PHP generated pages. They installed GD1.61 and everything seems to be fine.

The reason that I needed GD was that I’m thinking about replacing my image gallery software (again!) with one that automatically generates thumbnails and intermediate sized images. One that looks quite good is Coppermine. We’ll see………

You may have noticed that I have implemented Lynda’s “Today in History” pMachine add-in at the top of the left-hand menu. It’s always interesting to see what was going through your mind a year ago

When I started using embedded fonts (gee – all of yesterday ago!) I was worried that readers, what few of you there are, would not be able to access this feature. That was until I had a look at the browsers that are in use today.  Here’s the latest table from Browser News

Sure, it degrades well (at least into Opera 7) but according to the latest stats plenty of people should be able to see the Anime Ace font that I’m using

I gave in and decided to go with blogrolling.com to keep track of my links (left hand menu).  It’s nice to be able to add to it without editing any files