500.000 Views

Whatever the WordPress stats are counting as “views all-time”, the counter hit 500.000 views today!

(I have no idea what is actually being counted: Are bots and spam bots excluded from that number? Referrer spam at least shows up in the referrer stats. If I leave a blog post open for some time, does that affect the stats?

I have no idea, so I just have this one number as an indicator of… anything)

Btw, it’s spam season again, so please leave your automated comments below

Thanks for visiting!

500th Post

5 years, 500 posts, what a nice coincidence.

In case you ever doubt your capabilities, this picture is currently circulating on the interwebs

And since we all love xkcd, here’s more fun stuff I came across recently:

• HUMOR-SANS, the xkcd font

• Creating xkcd-style graphs in Mathematica

Enjoy! Back to work…

Fifth Anniversary

Dear Diary

In the last 12 months, I started working on MS CRM applications, and I recently found jQuery programming extremely interesting.

Regarding my programs, most updates have been made to VS Solution Dependency Visualizer (web), automssqlbackup and wpxslgui have been brought up-to-date.

dbscript and SMOscript need some updates, too, and I hope to find some time for them soon.

I also started the Software Inventory page to find the software that I often work with more easily.

Most interestingly, this year’s posts that got the most hits up to today are related to batch programming, which is not really one of my core areas: Test if Directory exists in Batch file (.cmd) and Test if Network Directory exists in Batch file (.cmd)

Total stats: 455.000 views, 491 posts, more than 10.000 downloads.

Thanks everybody for visiting

Akismet has protected your site from 100,000 spam comments already.

One of the best inventions since bread was wrapped.

Thanks!

400.000 Views

Thank you everybody.

37.220.5.194, please leave your spam below.

404

I admit it was very tempting to celebrate the 404th post on this blog, rather than the 400th. Just like 1024 instead of 1000.

Incidentally however, recent events mean that the 404 jokes may turn into reality as two proposed bills are discussed and probably passed in the US.

Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project

but the proposals of SOPA and PIPA have serious impacts on the way we can use the internet. From the Wikipedia article:

Threat to online freedom of speech

Negative impact on websites that host user content

Weakening of “safe harbor” protections for websites

General threat to web-related businesses

Threat to users uploading content

Threat to internal networks

Threat to free and open source software

Ineffectual against piracy

Deep-packet inspection and invasion of privacy

Negative impact on DNS, DNSSEC and Internet security

No doubt that in recent days SOPA is covered more frequently in online tech magazines:

Help Stop SOPA/PIPA

Reddit is ready for SOPA and PIPA protest

Fighting Internet piracy: CES takes on SOPA vs. OPEN debate

Is a pro-PIPA lobbying group guilty of e-mail “content theft?”

Congress considers anti-piracy bills that could cripple Internet industries

How SOPA would affect you: FAQ

Over 40 Internet Companies Come Out Publicly Against SOPA (Including Us)

Anonymous will shut down to protest SOPA

reddit going dark for a day to protest SOPA online censorship bill

See Ars Technica for stories about some supporters of the bill

MPAA attacks Ars for “challenging efforts to curb content theft”

Smoking guns, dark secrets aplenty in YouTube-Viacom filings

At least one of the upcoming episodes of The Daily Show promises some fun. Can’t wait for January 18.

New Year 2012

This blog received 134.000 visits in 2011, totaling 326.000 since its begin in 2007.

I published 97 posts in 2011, totaling 395 since 2007.

The blog’s Table of Contents (created by wpxslgui) has been updated to include all posts up to December 2011.

Happy New Year

300.000 Views, and some Spam

This blog as recently passed the 300.000 views mark, and I want to thank the regular and not-so-regular readers for visiting.

I noticed a slight increase in views recently, which is probably due to Google tweaking their search results, but who knows.

I also want to thank WordPress and Akismet for saving me from the deluge of spam comments throughout the years. The Akismet stats say that some 62.000 spam comments have been filtered, the majority of them in this year alone!

For some time I also ran a forum, but I had to close it again because it was mainly visited by spam bots, and the software did not provide effective mechanisms to prevent them from posting.

Most of the recent link spam is in the form

[...] (post title) « devioblog[...]…

so it’s fairly easy to detect. I also figure that huge amounts of comments from the same IP range on a large number of blogs is an obvious indicator of spam.

Some bots still pretend to be human, and congratulate me for my style, content or design

Did you design the design this well with the default design tools? Your design is incredible

We loved your website so much

Yes, thank you too. And some texts are simply meant to make it through the language filter

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In the last couple of days spam related to Windows and Office product keys and key generators made me wonder whether Microsoft and other software vendors also maintain blogs here or elsewhere, and use the IP address and URLs provided in the spam comments to identify the spammers?

Fourth Anniversary

12 month summary:

• Started the Series category to collect posts on the same topic

• New applications VS Solution Dependency Visualizer (web) and cmd.net (web)

• Updates to SMOscript (web)
• Preparing the release of the next version of dbscript (web)

The raw sums: 282,000 views, 375 posts, 6,500 downloads.

First Quarter Million

The first quarter million is the hardest

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