Category: Blog Info

If you notice there is a link called “Reviews” next to the “Main Page” link right under the header. If you click the link it will now take you to a page listing everything we have ever reviewed. I am still working on fixing up that page but for now you can take a peak at its while still under construction. [Link]

I just finished upgrading my blog to the latest wordpress and I also went ahead and changed the look of the website.

I don’t like change and I hate it when people redesign their sites. You get so used to something and then overnight things change and its usually not a smooth transition. I tried not to change too much in the structure, I tried to focus more on making things clearer and easier to read while also adding some color to give it some life. The old look was really starting to feel pale and I was really starting to dislike it. I needed a change and I figured now would be the perfect time.

There are still some minor issues I need to fix but in general this is how the blog is going to look like. I will be working on various font options in the coming days and hopefully that will work out nicely. I wasn’t able to test the site on various browsers and systems so if you encounter a problem please tell me about it so I could try to fix it. Thank you.

Note: Please do a hard refresh (hold down shift and click on reload) to clear out my blogs old files. That should solve minor problems.

I will be moving to WordPress 2.0 soon. The only reason I haven’t already is because I also want to change my blogs theme. At the moment my website is looking really bland and I am hoping to inject some visual life into it.

My aim is to have something ready by Friday night.

I am going down to Beirut next week for a 10 day vacation. I don’t know if I will have Internet access there so I might not be posting anything till I come back.

November had the highest amount of unique visitors to this blog with a total amount of 66,815, over double the amount of September which was 26,319 unique visitors. The highest amount of unique visitors in one day was 6,450 and that was on the 15th of November when I got linked my Engadget. The lowest amount of visitors was 1,649 and that was on November 1st. The average amount of unique visitors per day is now over 3,000.

For more up-to-date stats you can click the Website Stats link on the bottom of the right hand side column.

After I post a comment on my blog I get taken to an empty white page. Is this happening to anyone else?

My iPod Video doesn’t like phones post has been making its rounds around the web. Here is where its been mentioned so far:

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Mac4Ever
Macfeber
Engadget
Slashphone
Macenstein
Macorama
iPod Fun
MacWorld (SE)
Sektori
Onliner

Cool, my post about how cell phones mess up the new ipods made it to engadget. My bandwidth though has hit 1.7GB already and thats from a 200KB file. Sucks. [Link]

I was just checking Kottke’s Remainder Links, a site I check daily for cool links. Turns out today he posted a link to website where a guy made a 30,000 calorie sandwich. The cool thing is I posted about that sandwich back in june! So I beat Kottke in this round.. total score now: Kottke 3483 – 2:48AM 0001

Update: BoingBoing posted about it today via Kottke also

October had the highest amount of unique visitors to this blog with a total of 26,319, over 4 times the amount of September which was only 6,826 unique visitors. The highest amount of unique visitors in one day was 1,704 and that was on the 27th of October. The lowest amount of visitors was 722 and that was on October 1st.

For more up-to-date stats you can click the Website Stats link on the bottom of the right hand side column.

The past week I have been having serious issues with Spam on this blog. For some reason my previous spam checker Hashcash was letting some spam through and I was getting at least 30 comments a day via email awaiting my approval that were all spam. So I decided to try a different Spam plugin called Spam Karma. Right away it detected the recent spams and adds them to the blacklist. So far I haven’t received any new Spams but the day is still young. Hopefully though I won’t be having any more spam issues.

Yesterday I added a spammer to the blacklist and it seemed to have blocked everyone and anyone from posting a comment on the blog. I emptied the blocklist now and everything is back to normal. Sorry about that.

Cool, just realized that this is my 1000th post.

Blog Stats
There are currently 1000 posts and 2,908 comments, contained within 49 categories.

I posted my first post on February 19th which means that I have been blogging for 206 days. 1000 posts in 206 days means I post on average around 5 posts a day.

I am currently updating the website’s theme slightly. If things look a bit off its because its not final yet.

Here is a link to something I am working on, its kinda like safat except it grabs feeds from some of my favorite sites. https://feeds.mark248am1.wpenginepowered.com/

Its still in beta testing.