I continued the manual move process from yesterday and as of 6 AM I had moved 135k of our 120k posts and updated 5700 of our 4389 topics. I guess this fits with the fact that I’ve been working on this for about 30 hours of past day.
I. Hate. Joomla!.
I use Disqus as my comment system moderator and starting with their most recent update I’ve suddenly got a flood of obvious flood comments like
You have blog with topics same as mine! You should click below so we can exchange links and have great traffic together! (Some obfuscated URL-shortened link)
My normal pace is one spam comment every day or two but I’ve had about 8 a day for the last few days which really isn’t a problem as WordPress has a useful select all button. But starting today the comments are now magically competing with one another as per the following:
Comment #1: I have found a way to get secret access to what’s basically a $100million dollar loophole. I’ve alreayd [sic] made $7000 in the past week. See me so I can share with you these secrets if you contact me.
Comment #2: You have good posts. Don’t get deceived by other programs offering you a way to make money from your content and make $5000 a week from the visitors on your page.
Comment #3: If you haven’t taken advantage of your posts to gain you money by my secret money-making method to make money you’re losing money! I can show you ways you’ve not even thing [sic] of too [sic] get cash from your page!
I wonder if these people operate blogs or other operations and have ever inadvertently hit themselves.
I got a call that someone had reported foul language on the OSR application page. The ways that could happen are few and most involve a cataclysmic breakage of the page so my inner web master took out his tanto to prepare himself for seppuku. I was much relieved that the “cursing” was due to me accidentally leaving the “show summary” box checked, so applicants would see an overview of what departments were most applied for and the most common phrases in multi-line sections which in this case included “hella-fuckin-balls-to-the-wall-awesome” because of someone spamming crap a few weeks prior. The spammer’s genius was in using hyphens so the whole phrase was parsed as one glorious word.
Kids these days.
I use Goodreads.com to keep track of books and hopefully ward people away from crappy science books. Their landing page lists the top and bottom rated books and I thought it neat.
Twilight’s on both. I suppose it’s rated by the number of 5 star reviews and 1 star reviews rather than the average.
On my landing page it lists my rank in some trivia game in which I’ve apparently participated.
I suppose there are six non-persons who are ahead of me allowing me to be in a place lower than the number of participants.
I’ve trying to get rid of the frames in the OSR Program and Leader Guide. Frames make it hard to link to things so I’ve been working on a pure CSS menu system like they have at GRC. They’re setup is full of wierd hacks to make Safari 7.9.1 work correctly and so on so I tried something stripped down and came up with this. I think it looks nice and would go wonderfully under the OSR banner. There’d be more links simplifying navigation and adding and removing links would be a snap, except it DOESN’T WORK AT ALL UNDER IE 6. Every other browser from Mosaic 4.0 to Firefox’s Fennec mobile browser alpha to Ice Weasel renders it correctly except for IE 6.
Knowing IE 6 would figure heavily into the usage patterns of the proletariat leaders browsing the site leaving it there and letting users realize they’re the dalit of web users wasn’t an option. So after learning a little javascript and a lot of Ctrl+U (view page source) and violating some IP laws I go this gem. It’s the red-headed stepchild of menus replacing the absolutely lovely previous menu with a kludge that only properly renders in IE6.
Maybe I should just create two versions of the sites: I was thinking this’d be a chore until I realized it may save me some work. If someone’s still using IE 6 that version would direct the user to a form that’d go to me so I could send them a copy of the web page on stone tablets which is the appropriate level of support for someone who hates the World Wide Web enough to abuse it with their knuckle-dragging tech competence. Or if they’re a little better than that, I’ll make one that’s just one giant page; the web equivalent of a double elephant folio. I’ll even include the PDFs as images that way it could literally be the only page they have to visit for camp information. “Yes, ma’am. The document you need is there. Make sure your browser window is full screen then hit tab 214 times, and press print screen.”
For Knotgeek: I blame this on Opera. By bringing up the whole concept of standards-compliant rendering they freed the dove of hope only to be struck by IE 6’s failboulder.