The Matthias Chronicles

Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 3:20 AM

Sprucing up things a bit

by Mar Matthias Darin

As can be seen, I have been making several changes on my blog today. One of the first thing I did is get rid of some junk that was slowing it down. I may be getting rid of some more crap as well as time continues.

I also consolidated my style sheets to improve speed. I augmented my page load timer in the left panel to hundredths of a second. I also implemented one of my favorite effects... The first letter of each paragraph is slightly larger then the rest of the paragraph. I think it adds a little elegance to the blog.

Now for my most dramatic change... My EntreCard visitors section underwent a major overhaul. I have nice colors and now every EntreCarder that drops on this site will have their page rank lookup and listed next to their link. In order to send a clear message to spammers, I have decided to not follow unranked sites.

I don't particularly like doing this, but I'm getting fed up with these pathetic lame moronic drug happy spammers that think they'll slip something in. It ain't happening!

I review every comment before it gets posted. Sadly, this applies to EntreCard as well. It too has its share of spammers. This will hopefully kill them off as well.

Let me know what you think of the changes...

Comments from Karen Zemek

I like your blog changes, not too sure exactly what PR means (my pnn blog is ranked 3 but my two blogspot blogs are not rated and I can't figure out why.

Comments from Lea

I agree. Spam commenters are quite irritating. I too moderate comments on my site. I also use the Defensio plugin for wordpress. I still get the spam...but its diverted for easy deletion.

Comments from Mar Matthias Darin

Thank you. I'm glad its looking better.

Karen: PR means Page Rank and is specific to Google.

Lea: I'm thinking of a little humiliation for the spammer since I also record the IP address that does the spamming. Maybe its time I had a little chat with their ISP...