Ett stortack till Göran Söderström som inte bara skapade fonten Navelfluff (se gårdagens) men även skickade mej en ny header till navelfluff.org i precis rätt storlek. Finemang!
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Navelfluff, the font
Wed 18-Nov-2009 in english, geek, meta | 2 comments
Schweet. There is a font called Navelfluff. It’s nice and fuzzy but boy it must be heavy as a vectored font. In fact, there are two variants of the font, one with much fuzz and one with even more.
The font family is priced at 75€, so it’s not like i’m going to purchase it. A sample text “Navelfluff” would be nice though for a blog header
Tags: font, meta, navelfluff
pwnd
Thu 10-Sep-2009 in english, meta | Please leave a comment!
Thanks to Janne, who noted that my blog might have been had. The sign for this was that my permalinks were all weirded out with additions like base64_decode ($_SERVER [HTTP-REFERER] ) (code intentionally munged).
- The quick fix was to edit my permalink settings, removing the funky suffix.
- I also edited sitemap.xml, created by a plugin for Google (and other index engines’) site maps.
- Futhermore, i edited my database manually to remove the base64_decode bits from the GUIDs of my last few posts. Older posts seemed unharmed
- Finally, being very paranoid about the “extra administrators” phenomenon exhibited by this worm, i deleted nearly all of my users. This may include you. So if i did remove you from my system (and i probably did), i’m really sorry and it’s nothing against you. I want you back. It’s all because of that jerk who wrote this Wordpress worm and should be kicked in tar, rolled in feathers and carried around town on a sharp stick.
Oddly enough, i was not able to find more administrators than there should have. Maybe i got lucky. Or maybe i just happened to update my WP just as crap was hitting the fan. Or maybe i just haven’t found the worm lurking inside my code just yet.
In any case, we are back. For now.
Images gone 404
Fri 24-Jul-2009 in english, meta | Please leave a comment!
I changed the root directory of my Wordpress blog according to the instructions in the WP Codex. Along with it, all my images went 404.
Since i couldn’t find a proper fix (or even reason to this failure) i changed it back. Things work again, but are just as ugly on the backstage.
Tags: wordpress
Bumps in the delivery
Thu 30-Apr-2009 in english, geek, meta | Please leave a comment!
My CDN provider changed services without my noticing, so this site has seemed down for a while
Things should be back to normal now. Thanks to me dear wife (who otherwise never reads this blog) for informing!
(<geek>In fact, it wasn’t the site, but rather that images and CSS files never were delivered. I’ve done the necessary changes on the backline, but it’ll take a while before the DNS updates have propagated around the intertubes, so this blog will have to stand alone until then.</geek>)
Tags: blogging, cdn, navelfluff
Navelfluff CDN engaged
Tue 31-Mar-2009 in english, geek, meta | Please leave a comment!
A while ago, i caught a jaiku from Jonasl regarding Simple CDN, a Content Delivery Network which is (duh) Simple. Simple to register to, simple to implement and, perhaps most importantly, simple to maintain.
So why use a CDN? Well, basically there are three reasons:
- Efficiency. Let your back end server do the processing-intensive bits and leave serving out static content to a dedicated workhorse with a phat pipe.
- Money. It’s/you’re cheap.
- Geeky. It can be done, so why not. And your next door blogger hasn’t got CDN yet, unless s/he’s on a hosted blog.
Me? I went for the geeky and cheap. And here’s how i enabled CDN for my Wordpress blog:
- Register an account at SimpleCDN and jump through the one step confirmation mail hoop.
- Register a “bucket” which will represent your stuff served from the CDN. I chose a Mirror bucket with a S3plus back end. A mirror bucket will populate itself and maintain its content without your intervention and the S3plus option is the cheaper one.
- Optional fluff: Create a DNS CNAME record to point cdn.yoursite.net to yourbucket-options.simplecdn.net. In my case, cdn.navelfluff.org points to navelfluff-s1.simplecdn.net, where the s1 option enables gzip and fairly sensible expiration headers.
- Get and install Yejun Yang’s MyCDN Wordpress plugin. Configure CSS, themes and Javascript with the “pre-url” above, i.e. http://yourbucket-options.simplecdn.net (or the prettier cdn.yoursite.net). No trailing slash in the pre-url!
- Hit Reload on your site. View the site’s source code to make sure everything’s in place.
- Rejoice.
That’s it. Your CSS, theme files and Javascript will be automagically slurped to SimpleCDN and served from there. Nothing to do further but to rejoice your increased geekdom.
Sure the solution could be improved. I’ve read that Amazon’s Cloudfront is way more efficient than Simple CDN, but with my traffic, who cares. In my world, this is just enough.
Tags: blog, cdn, cloud computing, content delivery, simplecdn, wordpress
Jag byter alldeles strax Navelfluff.org:s namnregistrar (registrör?), vilket kan betyda att denna blogg är borta från radarn ett tag. Är detta en bra grej att göra fredagen den 13e?
Navelfluff vaihtaa domain-nimi-palveluntarjoajaa. Saatamme hetkeksi poistua tutkalta.
Navelfluff is changing domain name registrar. We might be off the radar for a while. Oh, and a good Friday the 13th
Tags: godaddy, meta, navelfluff, registrar
Lately i’ve been receiving new registered users on Navelfluff on a near-daily pace. This is something new for me, but instead of being flattered, i find this slightly unnerving. Am i really getting all these real and registered users on my blog or do we have a spambot registering itself for malicious activity?
While i have Bad Behaviour and Kismet installed to thwart most spam comments, i still don’t like the thought of having extra load of potential baddies on board. If you new guys would be ever so kind to actually send me a comment, say to this posting, so i know that you are humans?
Thanks.
Tags: blog, bots, navelfluff, spam
New Post
Fri 31-Oct-2008 in meta | Please leave a comment!
Beware of failing links
Fri 5-Sep-2008 in english, meta | Please leave a comment!
I’m in a rather clunky update of Wordpress, so things may go bad at any time.
If there is anybody who’d want to tell me the ultimate .htaccess file to do the following, please let me know
- make www.navelfluff.org fetch stuff from {wwwroot}/wordpress
- make searches, which are sent from WP as ?s={search_term} to be shown as /search/{search_term}
Previously, my Wordpress installation has been in the root of my www directory (“{wwwroot}”) but i grew tired of that configuration. I might have to become untired of it again, just in case.
My old .htaccess file looked thus:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^s=([^\&]*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /search/%1/? [L,R]
</IfModule>
Along with moving my Wordpress stuff to a subdirectory, things aren’t really flying anymore…
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