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Posted on 12.25.06 by Widge @ 5:21 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Yes, well, I didn't want to have to do this, but they've left me no choice. I just spent the last four hours trying to batten down the hatches against a comment spam attack that you would not believe. That's right--four hours, from one in the morning till five in the morning on Christmas--fighting off a comment spam attack. That may be why any of you other lunatics who are up right now couldn't reach the site. We were getting pinged a few hundred times from each IP address. I'll probably post something over on my blog with the gory details about what I've learned, but given a choice between comments being open and the site being up, I'll take the site being up. I'm sure you would agree. If I'm understanding what the tech folk at Dreamhost are telling me, then making the comments open only to registered people wouldn't help matters. Again, look for gory details soon. Otherwise, I'm sorry as hell to have to close down the comments, but at this point, if you want to give feedback on the site, hit us up on the Gabfest. Suffice to say Wordpress is many things and a glorious piece of work but it plus all the plugins in the world won't save your ass if they really want to come after you. Comments will come back when somebody can come up with a way to get them open again without taking the site down. And that person will get swag from me, rest assured. Update: Gory details are here. Categorized as: Admin
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Posted on 12.14.06 by Widge @ 12:02 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. The fine folks at Dreamhost figured out what was causing us to sporadically go Tango Uniform--we were being smacked by a distributed spam attack in our comments. So they've taken steps and we should be okay now. Remain vigilant! I know I am--I'm double-Fooshing it tonight, baby! Categorized as: Admin
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Posted on 07.03.06 by Widge @ 11:16 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Our comments got a little wonky, but I rebuilt the table in the database and all's well. If the DB starts to spit pea soup again, I'll yell for help. Categorized as: Admin
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Posted on 04.29.05 by Widge @ 1:52 pm
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own.  For those of you who are not in the Tennessee Valley, you can feel free to skip over this. I just did an appearance on one of the local channels there and they broadcast the Needcoffee.com URL to the four winds. So I posted something over on One Tusk to try and point people the right direction, but since they plugged this URL and not One Tusk, to all of you folks in the Valley: Hi. How are you? Nice shirt. If you want the zany, irreverent, pop culture website that was mentioned, you've come to the right place. If you want the darker, odder, more literary things that I do under my "John Robinson" pseudonym, you can go over here instead. Okay, we join this mayhem already in progress. Categorized as: Admin
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Posted on 04.04.05 by Widge @ 1:00 pm
Comments on this: 4 so far. Add your own. Yes, you might be wondering why this page looks a helluva lot different. Welcome to Version 4 of Needcoffee.com. It's what I've been calling--in my head at least--The Espresso Edition. We're running Wordpress on the site now, so that's why it looks a bit odd. But you'll get used to it. Version 1 was when I was running this place off of my personal webspace. Version 2 was when we actually had the URL and created a really terrible looking site to house our stuff. (The background green was literally The Colour Out of Space--what the hell was I thinking?) Version 3 was what we just left...and it was nice, but it had no way of allowing us content management. As a result, I have really great writers with my ass as a bottleneck for getting the stuff on the site. So now with this version, we can actually get stuff online fast enough to satisfy our own caffeinated lifestyle. A lot of our content is still in Version 3, and honestly...it'll probably stay there for the time being. There's just too much IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes and whatnot pointing at the Version 3 content for us to move it right now. There is some stuff we're still working the kinks out of. Getting the latest Gabfest posts on the front page like before, for one thing. Creating a nice index of reviews for Version 4 stuff. That sort of thing. So hang tight, because we're working on that. This is going to shift around a bit before it's completely stable. If you see some functionality missing or something that's broken, let me know and we'll see what we can do about it. So here we go. Wish us luck. And espresso. Categorized as: Admin
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