TheSh17 dot com and Zombiebait are both in need of some work. Anyone willing to help out? Send an email to johntash [at] gmail.com or leave a comment here.
Remember the ‘40,000 blowjobs from belgium‘ post from a while back? The same group of people behind that political stunt has been pretty active on the internet lately trying to save net neutrality lately. Apparently they have some insider information from a few top ISPs confirming their plans for a tiered internet system.
If you haven’t heard anything about net neutrality; THIS IS BAD. As they correctly put, it would basically lead to the end of the internet. It would change your internet subscription to something like the way you pay for television. You’d buy the basic package and have access to wikipedia, yahoo, msn, nbc, abc, disney, etc or you could go for a bigger/more expensive package which includes google, youtube, myspace, facebook, etc. (These aren’t official listings, just examples.)
Why is this bad? For one, it gives ISPs too much control over what you can and can’t view. There are many people out there who make a living off of their websites. Unfortunately these people will probably have to go get a new job since the traffic to their websites would drastically drop(unless they can afford to pay ISPs to include their website in one of the cheap tiers.)
MMORPGs or any multi-player games? You’d have to purchase a higher tier package to connect to these custom servers and you’d see a drop in players/competition because not everyone will want to pay this much.
PORN? Porn would probably be in a tier all to itself and probably wouldn’t be heavily advertised. You’re pretty well fucked if you only use the internet for porn.
Watch this video from iPower that has Tania in it
Check out their website for more info: http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality2
For April Fools day, Google made an attempt to RickRoll youtube users. The Official New York Mets website held a poll for fans and users to pick the mets new theme song. Guess what happened? Someone, somewhere, had to outdue Google and behold:
Installed the WP-Super-Cache plugin for Wordpress. It’s a replacement for WP-Cache that comes with Wordpress. It’s supposedly a lot faster and so far seems like a good alternative especially since it supports gzip.
Changed the sitemaps.xml file around a little bit. It no longer includes any Category or Archives type pages; Only actual posts and static pages. This should stop google (and other search engines) from sending people to a category page instead of straight to the post they were looking for.
I did alot of cleaning of code and such that you people won’t notice, but it’s there anyway. Hopefully it’ll speed things up a little bit.
40,000 Blowjobs from Belgium
I’m too sure why this one is still getting a lot of hits. I think its from people searching google for “Blowjob“. Sick bastards
Funny Motivational Posters
We actually get more traffic from google for the term “Funny Motivational Posters” than from stumbleupon
Google’s free 411 service is finally out of google labs. I just noticed it. I usually text GOOGL (46645) for directions or phone numbers or even definitions, but now you can call and get the same thing.
Pretty easy fix. I was almost tempted to create a .htaccess rule to redirect all favicon.ico requests to that file until I realized it was my fault for not using an absolute path.
There’s a lot of 404 errors that look like this : “http://www.thesh17.com/wp/2007/04/17/hot-fuzz-from-the-people-who-made-shaun-of-the-dead/feed:http://www.thesh17.com/comments/feed/“
I don’t know how to fix this really. It only showed up recently so I’m hoping it’s just someone’s broken browser. As far As I can tell all links to comment feeds are correct and working.
The following pages were reported as not being reachable but work fine now.
There’s 272 urls being restricted by the robots.txt file and it cut my supplementary indexed pages down a lot. There’s 283 pages indexed by Google now.
Disabled the Shoutbox on the sidebar.
Removed the tag and category pages from the sitemap.xml file since they were being blocked by robots.txt anyway.
Disabled the Text Link Ads plugin.
Removed the Vizu Poll in the sidebar.
There’s some other things I did too, but I was bored and felt like listing these.
