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Blog Statistics

Yesterday I had a look at the webalizer statistics for this web page. Still, by far the most hits got my review of GTA: San Andreas, followed by several pages that are automatically fetched. It is also by far the entry page #1, with nearly five times as many hits as the root page. The referers to the GTA review are also interesting: Lots of people get there from Google’s image search, and some warez forums also seem to link there. (I wonder why, unfortunately these forums are all non-public.)

Also notable is page #2: /blog/submitcomment.cgi got more than 2000 hits this month alone. This is the script used to submit comments to blog entries. It shows how much comment SPAM I get per month, although only about one or two SPAM comments are not filtered out automatically. It seems that my list of filtered words is rather comprehensive.

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Blog Comments

I’ve finally managed to implement comments for my blog. I’m still playing around with the code and especially the layout, but I think it’s an important step forward. The future will probably bring a few more features, like:

  • Improved layout
  • E-mail notifications for new comments
  • Trackback support
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Blogging Application

To teach myself C# I have written a little GNOME Blogger application for my custom built blog. This is a first test of it. Of course there’s lots of work still left to do. For example, it doesn’t automatically generate the actual HTML/RSS pages by calling the generation script. Also, I still have to do all HTML markup by hand.

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Blog Archive

I have moved older articles from my blog into the archive. A link to the archive is at the end of the main blog page.

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Blog Hacking

Hacked on my blog software today. You can now click on the Magic card names to get information about the particular card from www.magiccards.info. While doing that I improved the XML parser so that the blog XML files are now properly namespaced. This allows easier and better parsing as well as future improvements.

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Welcome to My Blog!

Welcome to the blog of Sebastian Rittau! In this blog I will put into writing ideas, comments, and remarks on topics that interest me. Currently these are Debian GNU/Linux, the GNOME Desktop Environment, and the Magic: The Gathering trading card game, especially the judging aspect of that game.