If you want an alternative view to your blog's activity then Firestats is a really nice solution. It won't give you things like bandwidth usage, but it will give you plenty of information on referrers, visitors and pages visited. You can also customise a lot of the display, which makes it the perfect solution for control freaks like me :) Although I'm using it on a Wordpress … [Read more...] about Firestats 1.15 Stable Released
Ulster Bank Phished
Phishers are getting dumber every day. Irish banks don't send emails to their clients that often and they definitely don't send them on Saturdays... The phisher who took advantage of an insecure server should really have waited until Monday to send out his phish And maybe they need to get some lessons in design as well... I love the way the email was put together using … [Read more...] about Ulster Bank Phished
SEO Friendly Irish Blog Directory
I've decided to turn IrishBlogs.com into an seo-friendly directory of Irish blogs (and blog resources) There are a few basic categories setup, but if anyone has any (sane) suggestions for other categories I'd be more than happy to add them. What makes this directory different? It's seo friendly and gives you direct links ie. no redirectors, so search engine spiders can get … [Read more...] about SEO Friendly Irish Blog Directory
Dig on windows
For a variety of reasons I'm currently using windows as my desktop at home (this will probably change as soon as I have the energy to do something about it :) ) In any case I ran into an interesting issue this evening with a domain's DNS. While I could see that the root nameservers had picked up the change and any server on our network could see the new IP, my windows desktop … [Read more...] about Dig on windows
WordPress Security Hole
Jason spotted a very serious security issue in Wordpress that does't seem to have been addressed properly even though it was reported back in September of last year. Although the issue does not affect blogs like this one where registration is disabled it does affect a lot of high profile blogs that allow user registration. If you're running a Wordpress blog either disable the … [Read more...] about WordPress Security Hole