Blog Archives - July 2006

Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - Family Photos

I've created a few more photo galleries over the past few days. They include pictures of my new neice and god daughter Ava Marian (who is asolutely adorable), my Mom & Dad's 2006 Summer Vacation, and a collection of Lightning Photographs that I've taken and will be adding to.

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Saturday, July 15, 2006 - Guestbook and Abuse Update

Well, things were going great with my security code script for my guestbook. Over three days without a single false signature attempt getting through. However, the way i had the code written, none of the spam bots were getting banned either. So now I've adjusted my code so that the messages are checked for spam before the security code is checked. This means that spammers will still get banned and the few that don't will still have to enter the correct security key. Hopefully this means taht I won't ever have to delete messages from the spam bots that fool my spam word filters. And as time goes oon I'll probably loosen up my filters so that actual guestbook entries will be able to have URLs and stuff in them.

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Friday, July 14, 2006 - It works!

I'm VERY happy to report that my new security code on my guestbook has been working great! In the two and a half days that I've had the code in place I haven't had a single bogus guestbook signing and haven't had to add a single IP address to my abusers list. I (temporarily) have every signing attempt that doesn't enter the correct key send me a short email, just so I can see how well it's working. I've had 45 signing attempts in 2.5 days, all of which were spam and none of which even attempted to enter in the key code. So I'm very happy with the script. If anyone is interested in using the script on their own page, contact me at:

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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - Better Guestbook Security

I've really been getting tired of people trying to post to my guestbook advertising everything under the sun, from casinos to medication and worse. I've implemented a whole bunch of preventative measures to try and stop robots, spiders, scripts, and just plain jerks from posting SPAM to my guestbook (see my Agents page). Now I've gone one step further and ceated my own security key code to try to prevent anyone from posting bogus messages. The characters will display randomly from 341 different images that I created and if the code entered on the Sign Guestbook page doesn't match the characters displayed the message won't get submitted. I hope it works. Give it a try and post a message to my Guestbook!

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Tuesday, July 4, 2006 - Poornut Font

Over the past few months I've noticed that people have been coming to my site after searching for the words "Poornut Font". This is a font that I used in my Web Fonts tutorial, but I didn't actually have the font available for download. So, to appease all those searching internet junkies, here it is: Poornut.ttf

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 - Fireworks Galore!

Happy Independence Day! A few days early, though. Tonight Julie and I went to see a fireworks display in Hinkley, IL. There were skydivers, music, fireworks, and more. We met Janelle and Nathan and had a great time. I got some pretty good pictures, too.

We've also been following the Chicago White Sox very closely and were disappointed that they weren't able to sweep the Cubs in this year's second Cross Town Classic. But I guess we can't complain too much with the record they've got going so far. I smell another World Series!

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