Yet more housekeeping; tweaked the Perl backend for the referrers script to add a <br /> tag (as opposed to the not-working </br> that was there) after each entry, since (in Mozilla-based browsers, anyway) they just ran together and were difficult to read or navigate. Dunno if that was a problem for people running the stats from Stephen's place; I host the script and database here, because it seems rude to impose on him for that.
Also swiped some code from Mandarin Design a few days back to truncate longer entries.
I am not a geek, by the way.
And am genuinely curious if the various blog indexers, like Daypop and Blogdex read Javascript stuff like that or the Bloglines links. Suppose I can look for technical details on those sites. . .
Or, you know, just ask the people who run them. Good way to learn things, that. Case in point, there's some LiveJournal entries showing up in the referrals right now, mostly based on this here entry:
I just looked at [this here site] and I was wondering what is it really about?They should deffinately find a better name for the website if it isn't your average ignoramoose(?) website that would be directed towards blacks.
Which tells me I should update the About pages at some point, and serves as a warning that when you link into the abyss (and two or more people hit the thing), the abyss will link back to you, if I can misquote Nietzsche . And, you know, I can, because I just did, so nyaah.
And I rather like the name, but since domains are $6.95 a year these days, they're pretty much an impulse purchase. Any suggestions? Other than the I'm-so-gonna-kill-goneaway-donated UppityNegroPundit.com?
AaronHawkins.com is taken, but apparently not being used. Bastard. Downers Grove living bastard.
Of course, AaronX.com is available, and I was gonna change my name anyway . . .
Babbling. Went to the Chicago Wolves opener last night at Rosemont Horizon Allstate Arena with Redpac, the irresistably cute Lisa and her equally irresistably cute sister, and a group of people bearing the group name. . . no, no reason to go there.
See, they played the Grand Rapids Griffins, but That Bastard Redpac told me they were playing Gryffindor, and that it was a Quidditch match. Black man don't go to no hockey game. 20 (well, 19 last night) white men with sticks and blades?
Yep. Babbling.
Update 2: Also attending the Wolves game were the Ghettofabulous Jessica, the hated Pledge Jones, the Dread Pirate Jim Wolfe and Norm, who was the best damned manager I ever worked for. Guy who knows his stuff and has people skills? Whatever his current employer is paying him, it ain't enough.
Know I'm forgetting some folks, but I blame this on the Mai Tai I started on before the puck dropped. . .
Hanging out at GameWorks until closing time after the game probably didn't help. And yes, Redpac kicked my ass at Dance Dance Revolution, among other things, but I'm still the Mary, he's still the Rhoda, and that's all I have to say about that.
But I hope that answers the question of what this site is really about.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Update: declined to do anything with this description of the place:
Its just linked onto someone's Geocities site. The vein seems to be pretty PC and activist, so wudevah.
Because a) being accused of being on Geocities by someone on LiveJournal is. . . see, that's why I declined.
Moose can be bull-headed & dangerous creatures. Ignoring them would certainly be ill-advised & show a lack of critical thinking skills right up there w/id-ing your site as at geocities.
i'm thinking AnastasiaBeaverhausen.com. yes, yes, yes.
I like "justsomeblackdudesblog.com"
Which reminds me that I would like to change my link to you to uppitynegropundit.com - I LOVE that.
You host the Downe's script and database here.
We can't get it to work. Did you find any errors in the code or did it just magically run?
By the way, I haven't seen any indication that Daypop, Blogdex, or Technorati pick up the results of the JavaScript. I don't think they can since they are indexing the content of the static page, not the dynamically generated content.
If you don't mind I would like to see what you had to do to get the Downe's script to run.
while we're talking about such things, i was out on the back porch smoking drano when you were talking about anti-comment spam measures; i'd be much obliged your teaching me the ways of the force. in the meantime, well, heh heh! i'm going to be doing absolutely nothing, certainly nothing i could get in trouble for. *cough*
i just watched angel for the first time in many months--withdrawal symptoms i guess--and hey, it was actually good. morally complex, even.
Neo, maybe Geocities is that person's way of saying blog/journal/personal site? I'd ask, but it's clearly more fun to speculate from a distance. Or it is for them folks, anyway.
ej, see, you just wrong. And I'd be surprised if that was available. And am too afraid to check.
Dru, I loves you like a stepsister, but if you start using the pundit redirect to link here I will have to hurt you.
meg, I remember I had to do some tweaking, but the details escape me. Shoot me an email with whatever errors you're getting (Server 500, I'm guessing) and I can try to work out what the problem is.
r@d@r, I've decided to either delete the stuff, or move it to more appropriate entries.
Angel is all the Mutant Enemy we gots now, kid, until that Firefly set comes out. . .
A good thing about being up at 6 every morning: FX rerunning Buffys. Saw the musical episode this morning...opinions cary, but for myself it was like a memory you want to forget but just won't go away. yargh.
Don't have time to do the domain search right now but:
www.crackerasscrackerkiller.com
www.guiltywhitetourist.edu
www.thinkbeforeyoucomment.biz
www.teachyourstupidassthehardway.us
Oh, wait, I forgot the idea was to avoid plaguing you with irritating tourists full of ill thought out comments and repetitive questions. Isn't that why we appended the pundit in the first place? I thought adding that suffix would deflect anything but click and drool behavior. So much for that theory...
Redpac beat you at Dance Dance Revolution? I've seen 80 year old women with prosthetic legs beat him.
That is sad indeed.
So if you keep playing Dance Dance Revolution, do your shins get used to it and stop hurting? Ow. Oh and hee hee, www.guiltywhitetourist.edu. It's a .edu, so you know it's reliable scholarly information.
uppity-shinob, if you ain't like the musical episode of Buffy, I'm not sure I want to be your friend anymore.
goneaway, thanks, but you've given enough. More than enough. Please, for the love of god and all that is holy, stop with the giving.
yano, I can still kick his ass at Parappa, for what that's worth.
Lisa, I bow to the wisdom of Penny Arcade.
My, that's much funnier than the real Penny Arcade, who's a nasty old coot now, sadly.