I'm going to upgrade the site to Cuyahoga 0.9 in a couple of minutes, this may affect the blog as well.

I'll post about the process when I'm done.

I accidently hit Ctrl+Shift+S on a site ( I inteded to hit Ctrl+Shift+A ) and suddenly the whole site changed, the advertisment that I meant to nuke vanished and everything was so much nicer.

It didn't take a long time to figure out what happened. This key sequence turned off CSS. I'm not sure if ti's Firefox or WebDeveloper that did it, but it's nice anyway.

A few days ago I noticed a sudden spike in the traffic to the site, attributed to MSN Bot going crazy and hitting my site thousands of times. It's still in the range of hundreds right now. I know that others have noticed the same.

What is interesting is that it seems that I can now find things on MSN that I can't on Google.

I got a lot of complaints about corrupted files from my server. I always managed to get the files and verify that they were fine, but I kept getting emails from people saying that there is a problem. I recently started using the Cuyahoga download module and I suspect that this is the case. Cracking open the code and looking at what is going on there didn't give a clue. It seemed to be doing all the right things.

There are two reasons for using a download module:

• You want to know the number of times a file was downloaded.
• You don't want people to be able to direct download the file.

I'm using the download module for the first reason, I don't really care about the second one. So I just changed the implementation to use Response.Redirect(), which should cause a normal download. I hope this will fix the issue. Cuyahoga is a pleasure to work with, the changes I needed to make were localized and very easy to discover. I'm certainly happy that I'm using it.

I've a very strange host for this site, I keep getting better and better offers without doing anything. (More disk space, more bandwidth, more options, more sql space).

Okay, I've finished upgrading to the new version of DasBlog. Unfortantely, I overwrote the site configuration and web.config files with the default ones, which broke the site for a short while. I've fixed it all and made some minor CSS adjusments that will make my life easier (change administrator menu location and style).

I hope that this will help reduce the spam, and at the very list this gives me a way to remove it :-D

 Here is a new picture of myself. I also updated the About Me section on the site.

I just setup ReverseDOS 2.8 on my site, it has a vastly simpler configuration. This is the simplest solution I've seen to protecting the site from spammers, both to install and to use.

I upgraded to Cuyahoga 0.8.2, which means that you'll get a better experiance with the main site menu.

I also played a little with the bug tracking and now I get an email for new bugs, (Sorry, Bruno, didn't get it until today).

I also made some modifications to the CSS, which should result in a much better view for the unregistered users (meaning everyone but me :-)).

3 days, 18 hours and counting.