Chaos + logic = net

I've added a section on the left that constantly updates with any changes occurring on the wiki. I mostly added this for my own benefit, as I know if people are looking at it, I'll be more apt to keep working on it like I have been. Also, later on when (if) more people start making updates in it, I'll be able to keep tabs on what is going on easier.

Anyway, that's pretty much it. Work is ongoing.

I put some anti-spam measures on my site, so user registration has returned to normal. Hopefully this will curb the fake users.

As an aside, programming has been slow of late due to the "holidaze" and school deciding to fuck me in the ass with a bunch of projects all due at the same time. Oh, and ripping out my shower and putting it back in a slightly less usable state. Fun stuff that is not programming.

Well, it took a few months, but spammers finally found my poor website. Last week, something like 15 users were created with such awesome names / email addresses like "asytojsfa" and "vandueas." They are now gone and as promised, user creation restrictions have been tightened. That said, a couple of them could have been legit users, but I doubt it. If, after a couple months, you suddenly decided you had to make a new ID to leave snarky comments on my site and now cannot log in let me know and I'll mail you a pony or something.

Spam is something everybody has to deal with, but people who run their own webistes even more so I think. In an effort to curb the inevitable onslaught of spam, I've made account creation a requirement for posting comments. Currently, this is the only form of spambot mitigation on the site. No email verification or captchas to decipher or any of that garbage... yet. I'll keep an eye open and see how bad it gets. Each time another spambot gets through, I'll introduce more requirements.

The point is, if you want to post comments, you gotta make an account... but it's currently very easy to do so. So, those of you that think you might want to, do it now before it gets annoying. Or not. Most of my online friends I talk to all day over IM, so I don't know why they would bother. Unless it's Mike and he just wants to humiliate me on yet another channel of communication. Which is the kind of thing he would do.

Anyway, the good news is that so far I'm digging this new content manager running on the site, so this is probably going to be what the site looks like for awhile. Unless I get Squidgy to make me a new theme.

Yes, it's that time again. Time for a new look to the webpage that I don't use enough of, and another empty (probably!) promise of updates. Anyway, I decided that having WordPress installed in my server was the equivalent of parking my Jeep in a dark alleyway in Detroit. At Night. With the doors unlocked. And leaving a box of hammers next to it, just in case they don't try the door handles. In other words, it wasn't very secure since I was too lazy to update it.

So, since I keep paying my webhosting fees (by the way, Apis Networks is the best webhost I've ever had the pleasure of paying money for) I keep thinking I should actually use this thing for something besides tiny little projects that only a handful of my friends see. At the same time, I've been itching to do more programming. Specifically, reliving my old childhood dreams of creating a videogame. I decided this could be my new online journal (I refuse the use the b-word for some reason that I made up just now. No, you don't get to know what it is.) for the project.

The new project will be a RTS game (real time strategy, for the TLA (Three Letter Acronym- for the even more acronym) ignorant) that will be something of a cross between Master of Orion 2 and Earth 2150: The Moon Project, with a heavy emphasis on espionage, research, military intelligence, and counter-intelligence. Anyway, more on that later... spouting everything about the game now would make for a huge first post. Besides, I need to pace myself.

I'm also turning into something of a shutter bug, so I may post my photos here. Still thinking about how I want to do that part... use a Flickr-like site or do something myself.