LutherVKane's blog

Or, Why there's no Elbow Fetishist Homepage

A while back, I posted a poll about what sequels people would like to see. As of this writing the most popular result is Expanding Horizons with 6 votes.

Conspiracy - 4 votes
Horace's Curse - 4 votes
Virtuality - 3 votes
The Duel - 2 votes
NFP - 1 vote

The option “Other” also got five votes. And I realized belatedly that I neglected to include Storms on the list.

We've had spambots registring users on this site pretty much from day one of the relaunch. On average, we're blocking close to a hundred spam registrations per day. To put that in perspective: the number of users rejected in the past four months exceeds the total number of registered users.

The good news is the spam filter seems to be pretty darned good at blocking fake users. But I still want to look into better ways of stopping such things. In all likelihood, it's only going to get worse. Might as well get a head start on it.

This month, this site turns fifteen.

It was on December 27, 1996 that I put online the first pages of what was then known as Luther Kane's Body Inflation Home Page. That tiny little site would eventually grow up to become BodyInflation.org.

I’ve never been much for anniversaries. I’ve been known to forget my own birthday. I don’t have any celebrations planned, but I think this milestone deserves a mention.

On the old site, a user registration would be automatically deleted after 24 hours if it wasn't confirmed.  Drupal doesn't do this, so now I actually get to see all of the accounts that are registered but never activated.  There seem to be a lot of them, but I can't say if this is unusual because I never had a good grasp on how many is a typical number.  But it feels like a lot.

This is one of those days where mood and circumstance conspire such that the optimal solution to every problem seems to be "knife to the face".

Except for the database problem.  The optimal solution to that is to increase the maximum number of simultaneous connections allowed.

But for everything else, knife to the face.

Today, another person ran into problems with the upload size limit on the site.  If you tried to upload a picture larger than 2MB, not only would the upload fail, but the site would give you a rather useless error about the file being missing.  Sheer idiocy.  So I increased that maximum image size to 4MB.

Drupal has a blog module.  I still haven't decided what the feck I'm going to do with it.  For now I'll probably just use it as a dumping ground for thoughts, inflationary or otherwise, that are too large for Twitter but are just as trivial.