There's a new kind of spam going around, in which spammers post automatically generated posts to random threads on random blogs. These posts link back to the spammer's site, giving the illusion of a popular site, which boosts their ratings in search engines. We've been getting a comment or two like this here and there; I've been quietly deleting them as soon as I find them. If you're puzzled by nonsequitur posts from people you've never heard of, that's what it is.
Also, I've been asked to expand the number of past days visible on the home page; so I have. The last 28 days of posts are now visible on the index page. Hopefully this doesn't make too long a load time for any of us.
That is all. Carry on.
hey seth
is there a way to list on one page all comments in order of posting?
i feel like it's harder to keep track of comments than of posts, cause after they're off the "recent comments" list you have to look at old posts to see new comments.
the comments and posts seem to serve equally as branch-nodes, so it would seem to make sense to allow equal access.
thanks
It might come in handy for people to know some basic HTML tags, so that we can all format text and links and such. So here's a quick rundown.
HTML is the code that tells web browsers how the text and images on a page will be laid out. Most tags have an opening and closing tag, affecting any text inbetween them:
<tag>text</tag>
The / in the tag means that you're closing whatever effect you're using. Some tags, like the tag for inserting an image, have no closing tag.
Here are some basic formatting tags:
<b>bold</b>
<i>italic</i>
<blockquote></blockquote> indents an entire paragraph or passage.
Link tag:
<a href="http://www.whatever.com">some text</a>
That will look like this: some text
Image insert:
<img src="image_filename.jpg">
This one has no closing tag. Also, it can exist in the same post as text; you don't have to comment on your own image to label it.
By the way, I'm also the person who set up this blog, which I'm glad to have done even if I end up not being a part of the exhibition. In the interest of saving space, I used the "extended entry" feature on the New Entry page to put most of the longer posts on a followup page, so that this index page wouldn't get to be impossibly long. In each case, the first paragraph of the post is shown on the first page.
I'm also working on the interface a bit; I've made adding links to the sidebar as eay as it'll ever be, and I can explain to people how to do it if they want to add links.