Shin
Oct
18

Dofollow

Once upon a time, blogs started getting flooded with spam comments. This was done because in the comment a link would refer back to the spammers site. This is a backlink. The more backlinks you have to your site the higher your pagerank on Google becomes. This is a good thing. Spamming is a bad thing. It got so bad that search engines started checking for a ‘nofollow’ tag that would mean that comments wouldn’t count as backlinks. This was done to stop the spammers, but it was useless. Fast forward to late 2007 and everyone uses anti-spam like Akismet to protect their comments, but software like WordPress still places a nofollow tag on comments. This is bad because valid backlinks from you lovely people who post real comments don’t get counted either.
Enter the dofollow plugin which I have now added and activated.
So as of now all your new (and old) comments have the nofollow removed and thus give you proper linklove the way the internet was supposed to work.

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Oct
03

Forum or blog?

I made a topic on the forum about this but I figured it’d be interesting to check it here as well. As my blog here is becoming more popular it seems it attracts different people than the ‘old community’ we have on the forum.
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Oct
03

Game wallpapers

Final Fantasy XIIISilent Hill 5 - Siam

Anime wallpapers seem to be less popular these days, or we’ve disappeared into a Google black hole, so we’re trying something new with Humane leading the way with wallpapers for the upcoming games Silent Hill 5 & Final Fantasy XIII. Especially the last one took quite a bit of work seeing as there’s not a lot of graphics of the game out there yet.
If you like them leave a comment in the gallery.

Jul
28

Feed readers

Feed Readers
Wow, 19 people are subscribed to my RSS feed. I’m flattered. *sniffs* Seriously.
And how do I know this? Well, thanks to the lovely Feed Statistics plugin. The great thing about this is that it’s the first plugin I know of that gives you insight to how many people dig your feeds without having to sign up to Feed Burner.

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Jul
27

250, 6 & 0

This is my 250th blog entry.
This website has now been online for 6 years.
0 is the amount of cigarettes I’ve smoked today.

This ‘should’ have been a huge entry but I think I’ll keep it zen.

Jul
22

The stream

My pet project, finally completed, one less to do.
What is it? Well, social networking sites are fun, but they have one very big flaw in my opinion. You have 0 control over the content. Try finding something you dug on Digg.com, try accessing your bookmarks when Del.icio.us is down, and you’ll see what I mean. My solution: WordPress.
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Jul
12

Social bookmarks

Fashionably late as always I took a peek at my todo list from hell and decided to turn my attention to social bookmarks. Hip and trendy last year, common and in broad use today. I’ve been meaning to add a plugin for a while but I was never sure if people would really use it. So what is social bookmarking? You know how you bookmark a site in Firefox, or add a favourite in Internet Explorer? Well, same thing, only instead of adding it to your browser you add it to a site. Most notable of these is del.icio.us, the grandaddy of social bookmarking sites. The advantage of this is that you can access your bookmarks no matter where you are. It’s also fun because you get to see who else has bookmarked the same things as you, and check out their other bookmarks as they might be of interest to you.
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Jun
19

Avatars

No idea why I never thought of this before, but seeing as the anime avatar creator is still one of the most popular features here on the site it finally dawned on me a while back that it might be a good idea to do the same for FF, our other always popular section. So here we go, the Final Fantasy avatar creator.

Jan
30

Anime wallpapers

Anime wallpapers
Ever since the gallery was updated with better session and anti-spam protection all our wallpapers vanished from the search engines, which meant a traffic nosedive of about 3-4000 less unique visitors a day. That’s a lot. Seeing as it hasn’t picked up since and I had a day off to ehm… sort some things out, I decided to finally tackle the problem and whip up a different way of viewing all the wallpapers.
I hope it won’t be too much of a bandwidth drain, mehe.

Anyway, here ya go.

Work in progress... not home!
Trying to get all/most of the new code working before I start on the eyecandy.