Joe Hayes {dot} Org

You know, for years (literally) I’ve always wanted to be able to exclude certain words when looking at things like “links from an external page” while using Awstats. This especially comes in handy when you have alot of subdomains, as those links are counted as “links” the same way (actually worse, or more often) than links from other (completely different) domains. In my case, I manage free forum and blog hosting services which offer free subdomains… so that’s literally thousands of listings cluttering up what I really want to see (websites passing the most traffic via incoming links) and often eliminated just one word isn’t enough.

Sorry, this isn’t one of those new, overpriced yellow books at your local bookstore. It’s not even a book, rather a blog post about a handy tool I came across. It’s a script that’ll help you configure your mysql settings, ideal for those that aren’t fluent in database server optimization. The author doesn’t include instructions, so I’ll help make it easy for those that aren’t familiar with executing shell scripts or using ssh.

Recently I have been working on a large project, BlogSavy, a free blog hosting service. Other than the typical stuff like updating the software to the lastest version of WPMU and getting all the plugins and templates playing nicely with each other, recently there was a forum installed for support. As such, posting updates on both the host’s homepage and in the forum cumbersome, as well as a time waster.

A few weeks ago I took my sons out to shoot / watch me shoot a few rounds for the first time. They’ve never actually seen or held a real gun prior to this… alittle nervous (thankfully) but they had a blast. My oldest, Austin, was shooting a .22 rifle and said “This is just like Halo!” You know, the Xbox game. Hehe, ignorance is bliss.

An urgent update for Wordpress was released yesterday, specifically to fix a flaw in the XML-RPC implementation that could potentially allow an unscrupulous user to edit other user’s posts. If you’re in a pinch and aren’t too worried with other fixes, you can download the patched xmlrpc.php from here and overwrite your existing file.