As you are probably aware of, I've been revamping keithstric.com. In that revamp I wanted to add a Google Custom Search (CSE) engine to search only my site. Making the CSE was easy enough with the wizard Google supplies but, I didn't like the way that it either redirected you to a google page or you had to submit the search to another dedicated page on your site. So I set on the quest of getting the results to show up where the content of my website usually shows up. Below I list all the things I tried and then what finally succeeded.

First I tried the default of showing the results on a google hosted page. I just didn't like that at all, I could customize it a little bit but not really.

Next, I tried having the results show up in an article type document, however, the url that gets appended to the search results page starts with "?", seems Domino didn't like this at all and kept dying with an error 500. I tried all sorts of ways to prevent the "?" from being the start of the appended URL to no avail. I did some research on what the subject and it seems when a url contains a "?" Domino expects a domino url extension (i.e. OpenDocument, OpenView or whatever) to come right after the question mark, if it's not what Domino expects, it throws an error 500. To get around it you can create a rewrite rule, but with this blog being hosted by Prominic, I really didn't want to go this route. So, this didn't work...

The last option for displaying the results from a Google Custom Search engine is to display the results as an element. This actually worked with no changes really needing to be made as far as just displaying the results. However, the results just pushed the rest of the blogs content down below the search results. While this worked, I didn't really like it, I think only the search results should show up. But I really liked that the results were "wrapped" within my website. So, how to make it so that when someone performs a search the div which contains the website content is hidden and only the search results are shown? Well, I messed with this for quite a while and never could get it to "really" work. I could hide the div which contained the content but not when the "Search" button was clicked. So I had to post a question over on the Google Custom Search Implementation Forum. The guy that answered didn't leave his actual name, only "omr" is his username and is who really got this to work and who deserves the credit for it.

Now we just need to put this within BlogSphere and we're ready to go. So without further rambling...

• First, setup your CSE to only search your site. When you do this if you go through all the options in the wizard you should find your "CSE ID" which is a long number which basically identifies your CSE.
• Once you get your CSE ID we're ready to put everything in BlogSphere.

Click the "Read More" link...

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While looking to see if I could find some kind of emulator for mobile browsers I came across BrowserShots.org. This is a tool which allows you to select browser versions to test your website with. Once the test is done screen shots of the results are published on a web page that you can look at and then download all the screen shots. It takes a little while to run, but it seems to do what it advertises. Best of all, it's a free service!

I went ahead and exported the DXL for my BlogSphere template and skin and made it available in the Downloads section for your enjoyment.

OK, I found one last issue. On the Downloads page/view, the comments link pointed to /d6plinks/ instead of /downloads/. So, I modified the "RenderEngine.Tags" script library, "TAG_BSCommentsURL" function to the following...

Function TAG_BSCommentsURL(blogDoc As NotesDocument,cfgdoc As notesdocument,debuglevel As Integer)
	On Error Goto LogError
	If DebugLevel > 3 Then Call LogEvent("Process Tag: BSCommentsURL",0,Nothing)

	If blogDoc.Form(0) = "content_Download" Then
		TAG_BSCommentsURL = cfgDoc.cfg_Basic_HomeURL(0) + "/downloads/" + blogDoc.PermaLink(0) + "#Comments"
	Else
		TAG_BSCommentsURL = cfgDoc.cfg_Basic_HomeURL(0) + "/d6plinks/" + blogDoc.PermaLink(0) +"#Comments"	
	End If

	Exit Function
logerror:
	Call LogError
	TAG_BSCommentsURL = "TAG ERROR : Check Debug Logs"	

End Function

The change here is that I just check if the form being processed is a download form, if so I use /downloads/ instead of /d6plinks/, and that's it

If you visited the downloads link above since the site change, I guess you noticed that the attachments weren't available unless you visited the Permalink URL for the download. Well, this has now been fixed.

I noticed this issue when looking at the search results on Nathan Freeman's website, that his search results showed the attachments in his download documents that were returned by the search. Got to looking on my site and mine was doing the same thing. However, if you visited the /downloads view, the attachments didn't show up, you only saw the BSAttachments tag. So, I got to digging in the code a little bit to compare the differences between the rendering of all downloads and the search results. There is quite a difference here, but it wasn't too difficult to figure out.

In the "RenderEngine.Blog" script library, "RenderEngineAllDownloads" function, there are a few arrays there that contain the tags and values of each download document. The tags array contains all the tags that the script will look for and the values array contains all the values for said tags. Looking at this the BSAttachments tag wasn't listed in the array. However, comparing to the "RenderEngineSearchResults" function these arrays weren't present at all, but a call to the "RenderEngineProcessTags" function was used instead and this wasn't in the "RenderEngineAllDownloads" function. So, I replaced the line of code in the "RenderEngineAllDownloads" function for "RenderedText" to read:

RenderedText = RenderedText + RenderEngineProcessTags("SingleEntryTags", templateDoc.template_Plink_Download(0))

This seemed to have corrected the issue and now the BSAttachments tag gets processed in the /downloads view.

Today I worked on tuning the performance of keithstric.com. I don't know if you'll notice a difference when using broad band, but, if you're using dial up, you should notice a significant difference.

Some of the things I changed....

• Reduced the size of some of the larger images
• Reduced the number of images being loaded
• Optimized some of the < head > html and CSS

Like I said, don't know if you'll really notice any difference, but I guess it makes me feel a little better that I at least tried to speed things up a bit

OK, so I stated earlier that the new look wouldn't be active for a couple of days... I lied

But things progressed a bit quicker than I anticipated so it's live today. All the bug fixes mentioned earlier are now in place. As for the bug with Static Pages not displaying properly, well it seems it was a "Page Template" issue and not a code issue

One thing to note about the new layout, if you're using 800x600, it's gonna be all screwed up. According to Google Analytics no one is reading this site with 800x600, so hopefully it won't be a big deal.
{EDIT Image moved to "Read More". Click Read More to see image }

Another thing, I got rid of the Snap Shots functionality, it was starting to annoy me. I also cleaned up the side bar items as they were rather cluttered and weren't really very useful. So, I hope you like the new design and I'll resist the urge to keep tweaking it and wind up breaking something.

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I've been using the Blogsphere template since it first came out and haven't looked back. BlogSphere and the OpenNTF mail template are the templates that really opened the world's eyes to OpenNTF and the benefits of an OpenSource community for the Lotus faithful. However, since version 3.x of blogsphere there have been a couple of bugs that really bugged me. These bugs didn't really hurt the overall feel of Blogsphere but are really just little annoyances. Now what brought these bugs to my attention is that I'm currently redoing the look and layout of keithstric.com. This current look has been here for a couple of years now and I'm tired of images getting cut off because of the layout being too narrow. Also, because of the set width of the layout, on my big iMac screen I've got an awful lot of wasted realestate. What really inspired this was the new look of Chris Toohey's site. I think the layout and overall look of his site is great. Good work Chris! I hope you don't mind if I steal borrow some of your layout ideas?

The first one is the Download permalink on search results. Seems the TAG_BSPlinkURL function in the RenderEngine.Tags script library had a typo on line #13: "TAG_BSPlinkURL = cfgDoc.cfg_Basic_HomeURL(0) + "/download/" + blogDoc.PermaLink(0)" should read "TAG_BSPlinkURL = cfgDoc.cfg_Basic_HomeURL(0) + "/downloads/" + blogDoc.PermaLink(0)". While this really isn't that big of a deal, it was frustrating at times when looking for something.

Another bug, but not really a bug, but just had to do with the page template. In the search results, it didn't show the content of the post, just a Blogsphere tag, which to the average user doesn't really mean that much. But that tag doesn't exist, hence it only showing that tag and not the content of the found entry. The tag that was being used is "<$BSEntryBody$>". I changed that to use the "<$BSEntryHTML$>" tag instead.

Next up, and this one I can't seem to get to work at all, is the display of all the static pages. Just like with downloads, you should be able to display an excerpt of each static page in a blog like layout. This was returning an error for the comments rss which is something I'll get to in a minute. But, I never could get the static pages to display like I want, but that's certainly something on the agenda before the new layout goes live.

Last one, in the RenderEngineCommentsEntries function of the RenderEngine.RSS script library, line #9: "numofentries = configDoc.cfg_rss_RSSFeedEntries(0) * 5". The field cfg_rss_RSSFeedEntries doesn't exist, so this was causing an error to be returned. For some reason this error occured when you tried to navigate to the view containing the Static Pages. I just changed this to read: "numofentries = 50". Now, I know I shouldn't hard code this, I should just add a field to the configuration document for this, but I guess I'm just lazy and don't want to change too much in the template in order to make upgrading to the next version easier.

Please don't take these bugs as me bashing Blogsphere, I think it's a great product and I look forward to continuing to use it in the future. I just thought folks that are using blogsphere may be experiencing some of these same issues and would like to fix them. But while you can't see these fixes at this moment on keithstric.com, they will be implemented when the new layout goes live in a few days (I'm not very fast with tweaking CSS).

The other day I was noticing that when I included a list in my blog posts that the bullet image wasn't showing up. So, I started digging through the code a little bit. The first stop was the "View Source" in FireFox. Looking here, the HTML is correct and should show the bullets. This led me to the CSS in the BlogSphere Site Skin document for my website and find the tag for lists, this is all correct also, at least it appears to be correct and that it should work. So now I'm a little stumped, I try and view the little blue dot image that is supposed to be displayed as the list item bullet via the browser, it didn't display properly or at all really. Now I had to go look at the images tab in the BlogSphere Site Skin document, yup the file is there and I could preview it with the built in image preview software of both Windows and Mac. So, just out of curiosity I detached the file, opened it with The Gimp, saved it and re-attached it in the Site Skin. Voila', the bullets now show up.

Now what caused this is beyond me, but if you're experiencing the same type of issue you may want to go about the same process.

OK, I posted a discussion post over on OpenNTF in the BlogSphere project about the Post title not showing up in Google Analytics. This happened after I upgraded to the 3.0.1 B8a version of BlogSphere and I moved my Google Analytics code over to the Configuration document. Well last night I got to thinking about where in the header the title tag showed up. So I got to looking and the title tag was at the very bottom of the head tag (hope that makes sense). I modified the RenderEngine.Blog lotusscript library, RenderEngineBlogHTMLHeader function. I moved this code up above all the script tags:

If permaLinkDoc Is Nothing Then
    RenderedText = RenderedText + "" + Chr(13)
Else
    RenderedText = RenderedText + "" + Chr(13)
End If

This seems to have corrected the problem and all the visits from today are now showing the post title.

I know I haven't written in a while, it's been hectic here. But I do have some news about Lotus Symphony . I picked up the latest copy of CPU Magazine and in the Bleeding Edge Software review section there was Lotus Symphony. I thought that was pretty cool

On to something else... In my previous post I talked about a bug with BlogSphere v3.0.1 B8a in the downloads section that attachments weren't showing up. Well it turns out that my page template was missing the crucial tag to include the attachments Thanks to Kevin Pettitt who pointed me in the right direction as I had been digging through the code. I also updated the Class-ExcelData.lss file that I attached to my previous post in the downloads section with the newer version.

In other personal news, I finally came up with a UI that I was talking about in this post. I ended up dropping the horizontal navigation as the customer didn't care for the initial mock up of this, which I guess as far as notes applications go is pretty new (I may be wrong). But they did like the ideas of bringing contextual data into a form (layers) so you don't have to navigate away from what you're working on to see a pertinent piece of information (Embedded Frameset). I would like to thank everyone that replied to my plea for help in that post.

So, until next time....

I upgraded keithstric.com to BlogSphere 3.0.1 B8a this afternoon. I made a few tweaks to the template and found a couple of bugs. In the SideBlockLinks function in the RenderEngine.SideBlocks LotusScript Library the line:
If LinksDoc.Link_Windows(0) = "Yes" Then

Should Read:
If LinksDoc.Link_Window(0) = "Yes" Then

So that's fixed here on keithstric.com. I also modified a couple of other things. I modified the SideBlockDBColumn function in the RenderEngine.SideBlocks LotusScript library to put a "< UL >" tag before the rendering of the DBColumn output. Also, in the TAG_BSEntryTechnorati function in the RenderEngine.Tags LotusScript Library I changed that to open the category link at the bottom of a post in a new window. I also modified the Lookups\Hot Text view to change the URL for Hot Text to open in a new window. That's all the changes I had to make to this version of BlogSphere.

Another bug I found though was in the SideBlock for Static Pages. It will show the category that the page is in, but it doesn't show the pages. If you click on the category you get the BlogSphere navigation structure, but no list of Static Pages. Hopefully this will be addressed at some point in time. All in all I think this is a good release so far, but time will tell for sure.

I've added a Google Custom Search Engine over on the left. It includes most of the Lotus Notes Community bloggers and the ND 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 forums and Technorati SnTT listings. There's been a lot of times I've been looking for something I know I saw on a blog and couldn't find it, so this should make it easier to find whatever blog item you're looking for. Hopefully we'll find this useful.

Keith

I've made a few enhancements to keithstric.com and the BlogSphere template. Let's start with commentor's web sites. I noticed that if someone didn't put the http:// in front of their URL and just put www.somesite.com that the link actually went back to my site with the www.somesite.com at the end of the url. So, you would click on the website link for that author and it would return a 404 error. So, I updated the TAG_BSCommentAuthorLink function in the RenderEngine.Tags lotusscript library to check if http:// was in the url, if it wasn't then I add it. That seems to work alright and I didn't even have to refresh the already posted comments, bonus!

Also, I added Snap.com snap-shots. This is a tool that enhances external links with visual previews of the target site. Sometimes a snap-shot will bring you the information you're looking for without leaving this site and causing you to loose your place where you were reading, or it allows you to look ahead to determine if you want to visit the link or not. Pretty cool .

The last addition is a "Subscribe to keithstric.com" block over on the left. This provides you a one click method of adding my RSS feed to many different readers along with their pretty icon. I found this information and buttons at RSS Icon Gallery.

I think the next big project for my website will be to start moving all the images that are stored locally in quick images and the one photo gallery I'm using is to move those images to Flickr. I think this would be a good idea as I only get 1GB of space on the Prominic servers and if I don't have to store the images locally then why should I. The problem is I don't know if that will be completely possible, it'll certainly take some research, tests and trials.

So hopefully everyone will like the new additions and they'll add value to keithstric.com.

The comments have been fixed . I apologize for the inconvenience to everyone. Also, thanks to everyone that sent me an email telling me about the comments being broken along with their comments, I will post them here in a little while.

Keith

EDIT:All comments posted...

OK, I've got my static pages online now, well, kinda. Not all of them are here yet but I'm getting there. I had to add a view because I couldn't find to use and tweak the RenderEngine.SideBlocks lotusscript library to get the side block to display properly. Overall, not too much effort, I just have to remember to mark the design elements that I change so they don't get updated when I upgrade the blog and hopefully it won't break too much.

I'll continue to move content over to the new blog and hopefully it won't take too long. As for my next project here, I'm going to try and get the static pages to display like the full archives when you visit the /htdocs url.

Keith

After 5 years of hosting my own website I've finally broken down and moved it to a hosting provider which is Prominic. They've done an outstanding job of hosting the User Administration Utility website for a while now and figured that now is the time to move. I moved the website because I'm just tired of fighting off all the hackers and people trying to relay through my server and the jerks who are just a plain nuisance and try to break in just to see if they can. So, I hope this will be a good relationship between myself and Prominic which I'm sure it will be.

As for the move, I'm sure that some of the links are broken, especially the ones back to keithstric.com. Also, all my articles aren't currently in the BlogSphere V3 template just yet but I am working on it. The agent I used to import my posts I think I'll submit to Declan to see if it can be added into the template. I would like to get someone to look over the code for the agent as it was my 2nd try at manipulating XML.

So I guess we'll see how well this works and if all goes well I'll keep it here. The biggest problem is me getting bored with the website and wanting to change it. Bruce Elgort brought this to my attention at LotusPhere this year, so I'll make a bigger effort to keep things looking the same.

Keith

Check out my Google Analytics browser stats. Over 50% is now firefox. Cool!

Google AnalyticsFirefox

Google Analytics, Firefox

OK, this is kind-of stupid. I saw this in this site’s spam control system called Akismet Spam. This spam solution seems to work pretty well and catches 99% of the comment spam here. But this one was kind-of stupid. Advertising a spam solution via spam… some people I tell ya.

Well, it’s started. We’ve officially started cooking for Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday. We’ve started baking pies and making a dish for my wife to take to work tomorrow. Man, all this food in the house with nothing to eat tonight

Keith

I recently had to take my categories list over on the left away. Well, when I brought my website back up I had to install the base version of Xoops and then, install all the modules and import the data into the various tables in the database. Well, I guess something went wrong during the import and using the URL Rewrite for them broke the links. So, I removed them. Well yesterday I just got the idea of opening the category up in edit mode and then saving it. Well, this worked! I now have the category listing back over on the left.

I know, not really a big deal, but since I’ve been back messing with the website that was a source of real frustration for me. Just glad it was simple to fix, but then again it usually is, it’s just finding the time to fix it.

Keith

OK, after a few months of the website being down I’ve finally got it back up and running. I lost everything I had posted for this year unfortunately. I’m sure I’ve lost quite a bit of my readership which is a bummer, but I’m sure some of you will come back (hopefully). But, I will get back to posting and putting together some useful content and even participate in the Show-n-tell Thursdays. So until next time…

Keith

A while back I posted about wanting to put a Captcha for posting comments. Lorelle commented that I should try Spam Karma 2 (SK2) to control comment spam. I installed SK2 and it’s been running for awhile now. I was looking over my SK2 logs and I found only 1 thing that was marked as a false positive and a couple hundred things marked correctly as spam. I must say that this plugin for WordPress is awesome!! I pretty much forgot about installing it and then today while just messing around I saw the little tab it puts in the WordPress Options menu. I went looking and was amazed at how much it blocked (all spam except for 1 track back) and what it let through (all legit). This is just great technology and should be ported to work on other CMS packages which allow commenting, as in my experience, the “comment spam preventers” that come with the package usually aren’t worth anything. They may stop some spam but not nearly as much or as well as SK2.

If you’re running a WordPress blog, check out that plugin, I think it’s a must have. If you’re not using WordPress, contact the author and see if he/she can port it to your particular choice of CMS app as I think this technology would make a nice dent in the number of people who participate in comment spam if only it were available for everyone who runs a blog or interactive website.

Keith

OK, I’ve been trying to include a captcha on the comments page. I haven’t been very successful, I’m thinking it’s because I’m running WordPress as a module of XOOPS. I’m not sure yet, but I think I’m learning a bit more about how this works within XOOPS.

When you have to change a file in the theme, say comments.php. You need to modify the comments.php inside the templates directory, this is the equivalent of the comments.php file within whatever WordPress theme you may be running. You have to do it this way because the WordPress theme really has no functionality within XOOPS because the look and layout are controlled by XOOPS. But I’m not sure exactly how this all comes about or how it should be modified (via the template editor inside XOOPS or via a file edit of the template file directly).

I’ve incorporated some of the other comment spam preventative measures which are included with WordPress. We’ll have to wait and see if they work or not, hopefully they will. But good news for readers who want to post a comment here, you will no longer have to wait for your comments to be moderated, unless your comments meet the conditions defined in the comment spam configuration, in that case you will have to wait for the comment to be moderated/approved.

So, hopefully this will pay off a little bit.

Keith

OK, I’ve updated my XOOPS installation to XOOPS 2.2.2 and WordPress to version 1.5.2. So, all in all I like the combination. This new version of WordPress fixes some of the things I complained about earlier. It was a little more difficult to figure out how to make it look like I wanted, but I think I’ve got it pretty close. I’ll have to keep playing around with the css to get it to look better.

But all in all, I think I like the new versions better.

Keith

OK, this is in reference to the post I made a couple of weeks ago about looking for another CMS system or Blog system. Well, I discovered that XOOPS has a WordPress module which is based off of WordPress 1.0.2 and WordPress ME 1.0.3. I think that’s cool. WordPress is a much more robust blogging platform than the weBLog module is. Also, it allows people to put their site and e-mail info in the comment without having to register. This is a bonus most certainly.

The only things I’ve found that I don’t like is that I can’t figure out how to make an extended text post. I know you’ve seen them, with the “read more” link. This makes it where you don’t have a big long article on the home page. Also, the post section don’t have a preview. Other than that, it looks pretty good.

Normally a portal/cms system is one or the other, a “portal” or a blog. Blogs generally don’t have any support for a link database or downloads database, forums, etc. Portals generally don’t have some of the features of a blog, as in anonymous posters being able to fill in their information, ping-backs, track backs and archives. In my mind, this WordPress module makes it possible to have the best of both worlds. You get all the features of a “portal” and a blog.

So, to the author of the WordPress module for XOOPS. Kudos and and thanks for a great product.

I’ve also stopped using the Sections module for XOOPS and started using an Articles module. This seems to group and display things a little better than the Sections module and doesn’t have erroneus fields and such. Hopefully this will be better. Also, hopefully I’ve found something that will keep my interest for awhile.

Keith

I posted this entry about internet outages at the house and stated that this would be a good reason to upgrade to a faster service.

Well, after some research I found out that the 4 MBps DSL isn’t available in my area, I also found out that internet service from Comcast isn’t available. So, I guess I’m stuck at 1.5 MBps. That still doesn’t mean I can’t upgrade my router tho

Keith

I’ve been experiencing some Internet outages here at the house of late. I can’t figure out why actually. We’ve been having storms so I imagine that brown-outs is what’s causing it but what I don’t understand is why my router don’t handle it. I think it should, or better yet, I think it shouldn’t be affected as it’s on a UPS.

So, I guess I need to do some research and see what I can find and figure out why this is happening all of a sudden. This might be a good reason to upgrade to a faster connection and a newer router

Keith

Seems all the downloads here were broken. Well it seems I forgot to update the URL from when I was testing and moving data. This has now been corrected.

Keith

Since I’ve switched to Xoops I’ve noticed some patterns here. Looking through my referrers I’ve noticed that the porn sites aren’t nearly as prevalent any more. Could it be that because I no longer just post comments no matter who sent them? Or maybe it’s because there is no Referrers list? Well, whatever the reason, I like it. I haven’t had to go into the DB and delete comment spam or referrer spam. Also, no comments have been posted with links to porn sites. That’s great. While running phpNuke it seemed like there were sometimes 20 or so a day. That really sucked. Also, the number 1 referrer to this site was some porno site . That sucked even more.

So, I must say that I like Xoops. I just wish it had a better blogging module.

Keith

Well I’ve been in the process of moving keithstric.com to the XOOPS CMS system. So far I like most of the options for XOOPS. I do like the fact that anonymous can post but it requires the Administrator to approve the post before it shows up on the site. As a matter of fact it was this issue that prompted the move. You can see this post which explains it a little more.

It also seems more secure than phpNuke which is certainly a bonus. To secure phpNuke you had to install some additional security patches, some which required manual tweaking of some of the files which when you did an upgrade those files got changed opening the security risk back up. Not to mention XOOPS seems to be a little more robust than phpNuke and there is just as large of a community for XOOPS as there is for phpNuke.

Now, some of my readers (ahem, Matthew) will say I did this just so that I would have something to tinker with… Well, it’s kinda true , but I also did this for security and piece of mind.

If you were a member and had a login ID and Password under phpNuke here at keithstric.com that ID and Password should still be here and be the same. If you have any issues logging in please let me know.
Of course, if you’re a registered user any posts you create are immediately posted and don’t have to go through an approval process by the administrator.

So, I hope you enjoy the new look and feel of keithstric.com. As always I appreciate any feedback you provide.

Keith

Anonymous comment posting has been turned off. I apologize to all my readers who do post legitimate comments anonymously. I have tried incorporating some security to the comments, but, I couldn’t get it to work properly. So, I’ve turned it off.

I am in the process of looking for another portal system that affords me a lot of the same functionality as phpNuke. Once I figure out what I want to use, you’ll see it here

Keith

I tell ya, these guys who do referer spam are JERKS!!!. I keep deleting them from the list and so they come back and put even more there. How childish. So, in order to stop the spam influx I’ve removed the referer block. Maybe one day I’ll put it back, but I’m tired of removing the porn links there. I tell ya, no matter what you have or what you do somebody always wants to mess it up.

For you referer spammers, you’re childish and your site probably won’t do very well if that’s the only means you have to produce traffic. Not to mention, links on sites that have nothing to do with the content on your site, gain you nothing. So, grow up then go out and get your traffic the old fashioned way, EARN IT!

Keith

I’ve posted a new review about Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta). Go check it out!

Keith

I know I haven’t written much of late but the New Year has started off pretty hectic. I hope you had a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and also a Happy New Year. I sure did, I didn’t do much for the New Year so that was nice.

But I thought I’d post what stats I have for last year’s web access. Pretty impressive if I must say so, especially for a personal website. Now I’m sure it’s no where near Voker’s visits but not too shabby I don’t guess. But here goes:

• Visits - 25,569
• Page Views - 150,609
• Hits - 544,276
• Bandwidth - 6.09 GB
• Most visits from External Site - www.xmailserver.org with 706 Page views

And that about does it. I’ll try and be a little more diligent about posting here in the near future. So until then….

Keith

I’ve put together an encyclopedia of Reef Terms for all you non-reefers out there. This should be a decent reference when I talk about reef stuff.

Keith

I’ve upgraded Gallery to version 1.4.4-pl2. This is the latest stable version of Gallery. It has a lot of new features for the configuration and is able to be embedded into more portal/CMS packages. The configuration page is much better, it’s now a tabbed interface and is split into related items. So, much better than before.

As for new features, it now has a polling engine included and more control over how your Gallery looks and behaves. The appearance of my Gallery hasn’t changed that much. I made it where Albums now have a dotted border and photographs have no border. That should help navigation a little. I also followed some of the security advice so it should be a little more secure. Even though no one ever broke into it, that doesn’t mean that they can’t. Might as well make it as secure as possible.

So, all in all I think Gallery is turning into a better product, just need to setup a place to look at Gallery 2 now.

Keith

I’ve added a new News feed from http://edgeos.com. This is a website which reports vulnerabilities or security threats. You can find that down on the right side menu at the bottom.

I’ve also put together a new How-To called LotusScript Classes for the Administrator. It’s not a big robust document or anything just a collection of the AdminP classes and NotesDBDirectory. So, check that out.

Keith

Well I built a new theme for keithstric.com. It’s pretty clean. I also made a new logo, man is it time consuming to make graphics. But I did learn alot. So, gimme a vote over there on the right and let me know which theme you like best.

Keith

OK, here is today’s image of Tropical Storm Ivan. We’re about where the red dot is. I haven’t been out and about very much but the most damage I’ve seen is a lot of limbs on the ground and in the road. The creek down the road is WELL out of it’s banks and the lake is also up quite a bit. It’s still raining but there isn’t any wind. So, we survived the storm pretty well with only some internet outages and phone outages which are still continuing to some extent.

Keith

Picture from www.weather.com

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