phonelosers.org

Hooray for productivity…

I don’t know why, but I’ve been working on phonelosers.org about 800% more than I normally do lately.

• Worked a lot today
  
• Wrote a new script for displaying random things all over phonelosers.org. Now instead of 50 lines of code, it’s 5 lines of code. My webhost (Cal) should be happy about that since there’s about 10 randomized things on phonelosers.org.
  
• Completely revamped my advertising methods. Put it all in a flat file database. This means nothing to anyone reading this, but it’s sure going to make things easier for me. I ripped apart the PHP code from my homepage’s guestbook, found the part that looks at a database and turns it into html, and used that to display ads on phonelosers.org. Did hours worth of advertising junk this evening while the kids did their homework next to me. Guess that’s why it took hours, I kept having to pause and help them. I still need to strip some stuff out of the script to make it a little smaller, but it works. Most importantly, I learned quite a bit about php today.
  
• Made a Shoutbox on phonelosers.org! I’ve been wanting to do that forever but none of the PHP shoutboxes I found would ever work on phonelosers.org even though they worked on my homepage just fine. Finally I just wrote my own, using a combination of PHP and Perl. I got hacked on the first day that I put it up – somebody forwarded the shoutbox page to a porn site. Fixed that and haven’t had any problems since then. Once I learn PHP a little better, I’ll get rid of the Perl portion of it.
  
• Fixed the Fruitwall – people can post on it again
  
• Did a few more anti-spam robot things so that they can’t as easily auto-spam the comments sections all over phonelosers.org. I set up a log to tell me exactly how much spam I’m preventing. Today it prevented 12 spam posts. Yesterday it prevented FIFTY-FIVE spam posts. (I spelled out the number to make it look more dramatic.) Last week I set it up so that all comments have to be manually approved by me now which eliminates 100% of the spam. But now that I’ve done this new anti-spam thing, the spam doesn’t even get to me. I’m only deleting a couple a day. Stupid spammers, they should die.
  
• Modded the guestbook on my home page again to deter automatic spamming. So far I’ve gotten ZERO spams there since I did it.
  
• Hey Stella – I found a really simply form-to-email PHP processer. I’ll get that working on your site tomorrow if you want.
  
• Put the random Christmas banners on the top of the website last night. Jammie made one of them and I put it up this morning.
  
• Worked on the PLA book a lot this week.
  
• Got the kids a bed finally! Really nice bunk bed for $200 – 1/3 of what it cost at the furniture store.
  
• Bought a new table for the kids room today for Legos.
  
• Hooked up a hub to my modem and got my Vonage line running again. Now I’ve got twice the free long distance at only double the price!
  
• Did Christmas shopping for the kids
  
• Took back the $29.99 trash can I bought at Fred Meyer and got a refund. I didn’t know the City of Albany provided our trash cans for free!
  
• Finished reading Mentally Incontinent
  
• Paid tons of bills