For the past many years, I used Google’s Webmaster Tools to help me optimize my various Web sites for Google’s search engine, and help me administer Google’s spidering of my sites.

In that same time frame, I’ve also sent automated nightly sitemaps of my sites to Google, to ensure that it would be aware of each day’s updates.

Over the years, I’ve also used four different Google GMail accounts as anonymous proxies, to protect my online privacy when corresponding with possibly dubious strangers — being careful not to [more...]

Several weeks ago, in one of the Linux support forums that I frequent, someone started a thread to complain about the continuing problem of spam postings in the forums.

One member expressed the opinion that we should allow some of the spammers’ messages to remain, because he believed that they had made the effort to read our forums before they had spammed us.

What convinced him that the spammers were [more...]

For the past several days, I’ve been so busy taking care of Bud that I almost didn’t notice.

It’s only been less than 5 1/2 months since this Web site had its 5-millionth visitor.

But, some time during the past few days, this site had its 6-millionth visitor.

As always, I’m very [more...]

Early last year, I gave you a little behind-the-scenes look at how I administer this Web site.

Specifically, I told you that I configured this Journal to require me to personally approve every comment that anyone submits before it can appear at the end of one my Journal posts.

I go to all that trouble because almost every single comment [more...]

Regular readers of this Web site know an awful lot about me.

That’s because, over the years, I’ve used this site to openly share many very personal things about my life with the whole world.

By doing that, I’ve chosen to be very transparent.

But unless you’re [more...]

I’m sure we’ve all experienced it many times.

You’re browsing the Web.

You click on a link that’s supposed to take you to a specific Web page.

But instead, a completely different page appears on your screen. [more...]

Today, and for the past 3 days, the Web server in Colorado that hosts all of my Web sites, including this one, has been under a DDOS attack.

As a result, today, and for the past 3 days, this Web site has repeatedly been unreachable, for up to 3 hours at a time.

Of course, my email accounts have been [more...]

It’s about 8:00 PM (EST), and I just noticed that this site had its 5-millionth visit a little while ago.

I’m simply amazed.

Thank you for visiting my site, and for your [more...]