The life and times of a happily married couple in Ohio.
Married In Ohio went over 2,500,000 visitors sometime Tuesday evening! That’s a lot of visitors even for five years; especially since we don’t count robots, feed readers, or other tools which don’t support cookies. We look at it more as a measure of our longevity rather than as a measure of our popularity. We’re not [...]
I HATE Blogger! It was only a few months ago that I was complaining that Google changed the way that OpenID works for leaving authenticated comments. They changed things again on Sunday or Monday so once again I couldn’t leave comments on anyone’s Blogger blog. Of course they never announce their changes beforehand or even [...]
As many of you know, I take care of things around MariredInOhio.com myself. It’s usually not a problem being your own system administrator except when you spend all evening trying to fix a problem with your mail server; only to discover that it’s actual a problem on the receiving system. Monday was one of those [...]
January
Did a lot of tinkering with the number of posts on the front page to speed up page load times. Finally I wrote a plugin that shows all posts published in the last seven days on the home page.
Created and published our favorite HNT photo post of the year.
February
Got California Girl a nice skirt [...]
We’ve all been using Windows 7 for a while now and everyone really likes it. The Boy didn’t like Vista well as XP and wanted to try it as soon as the released version was available. I’m really glad he encouraged me to upgrade. He was principally interested in his laptop; but I ended up [...]
I didn’t realize it until I got home from work today and had a lot of alerts in my inbox that I misadjusted one of the blacklist configuration settings and several IP addresses that should not have been were temporarily banned. It’s a shame that we have to have such things; but there are a [...]
I discovered a minor glitch in with the commenting system. Apparently, if I approve comments from the moderation page and then choose “Delete all spam”, the comments that were “approved” and no longer appear on the page are also deleted as spam. Delete all spam seems to affect ALL comments that were originally on the [...]
I always thought the maps that certain blogs had that showed where their visitors were from; but I wasn’t overly enthusiastic about sending all of our visitor information to Google (for Google Maps) or subscribing to a “free” tracking service. Who and how often people visit this blog is nobody else’s business. I don’t necessarily [...]
I won’t know for sure until Sunday or Monday but I think I have finally fixed the server software issue that was intermittently causing Married In Ohio to crash. I’m sure that I have found the root cause; however, I won’t know until we don’t have any crashes for a while that my solution corrects [...]
You may have noticed that I haven’t been commenting much on everyone’s blog recently. That’s for two reasons. Firstly, our OpenId server was broken after the most recent upgrade so I couldn’t; comment on Blogger blogs that don’t allow anonymous comments. And secondly, the server which hosts Married In Ohio has been intermittently crashing. So, [...]
