Tag: Digital Gemstones

So it's been about six months since I last took the time to update my blog - though in the meantime I've redesigned how comments are submitted to better fend off the hoard of spammers. Just today I've started receiving waves of spam url comments which appear to be from stanford.edu - but are in fact exploiting a redirection security flaw in one of their web pages to make a bunch of porn sites appear legitimate. I've notified the webmaster, we'll see if they do anything about it.

So what have I been up to for the past several months? Well I've been back at Willamette for about two months now, pursuing my Computer Science degree and doing my level best to wreck havoc on the school's network. I've been trying to set up a FTP based file sharing service on campus, though as yet I haven't found a good FTP crawler / indexer, so suggestions would be awesome. In about two weeks I'll be heading up to Eugene to participate in the ACM's ICPC programming competition - maybe I'll be inspired to write something about the tournament - we'll see.

Alright! No doubt I'll keep making updates from time to time, but I think I have a nearly fully functional blog now, with the ability for users to submit comments! It's pretty straightforward, but I'm going to break down some of the work I did for the hell of it. In the meantime, I invite you all to leave your thoughts. Some basic notes, you're welcome to put a link to your website in the website form, but both it and the [url] BBCode will include rel="nofollow" tags to stop bots from following the links. Hopefully this will discourage anyone from posting just to improve their pagerank, and will help fight spam. Also, your email address will never be displayed to the general public, though I may use it to contact you if I feel you had a comment worthy of followup.

Well I know the Scripts page has been kinda stagnant for some time now, but being on break from school has given me a chance to update the site with some new code, including this blog, and upload some scripts and programs I've built for public consumption. From this point on I'll have a blog entry for each new script I upload, but for now I'll just cover what I've got if you want to read the full article.

Well it took longer than I would have liked, but I finally have a working blog! While I will from time to time post personal articles, this blog will primarily be a Website Development blog, covering any internet-related subject I feel like talking about that day.

I have also put together an RSS Feed for your convenience. It, along with the whole blog, was put together in-house, so if you should find any problems, or have any suggestions, please, as always, let me know.