Archive for the 'Blogs' Category

Sunday, August 30th, 2009Sunday, August 30th, 2009

Philip Garrido’s Blog

So the fruitloop that kidnapped an 11 year old girl, held her captive in his backyard shed for 18 years while she bore 2 of his children has a blog.
http://voicesrevealed.blogspot.com/
So here’s the deal… Google is really good at determining relevancy of a webpage and what a webpage is about. Maybe they should modify their […]

Sunday, July 19th, 2009Sunday, July 19th, 2009

I’m Getting Married!

…well at least I assume so. I can’t imagine he would turn me down.
Dave, you have a Shawn Hogan category on your blog… marry me?

Saturday, July 18th, 2009Saturday, July 18th, 2009

Spam Blocker Works!

Okay, so I decided not to blog for 2+ years to see if the spam blocker thing I made would work, and sure enough it did… After 2+ years, not a single spam comment got through… I’d say that was pretty good, eh?
On a better note, I have 2 years of life to write about […]

Spider Bottlecap Nearly Killed Me

…so as I’m going through the {cough, cough} 2+ years of comments I never got around to moderating on this blog, I came across one that is freaking me out.
http://www.shawnhogan.com/2006/11/vampire-bite.html#comment-33317
Dr. Finch seems to think I have some gnarley spider bite that needs immediate doctor attention and my life is in danger.
I think he missed this […]

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Maybe No Less Spam?

The comment spam on my blog here was getting to the point of just being silly… around 4,000 spam comments per day (breaks down to about one every 15 seconds 24/7).
I decided to try and do something about it so I don’t have to weed through them manually (the time consumption on this task is […]

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

My Face Is So Popular It’s Red

I don’t recall how I came across this image, but I was rather surprised to see it randomly (considering it’s me)…
Some sort of heat map where people look at an image, and decide what’s the most interesting part of it by clicking somewhere on it…
So people thought my face was interesting I guess… either that […]

Thursday, March 1st, 2007Thursday, March 1st, 2007

1,251 Reasons To Not Have A Blog

One reason I haven’t been writing on my blog is that I just haven’t had the free time to sit around and look for cool/interesting things all day (ahhh… the good old days when I had nothing to do… hah)
I’ve been trying to keep up with comment moderation on the blog (doing it once every […]

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

No, I’m Not Dead…

For everyone that has been asking me (or asking others to find out)… I didn’t die.
I also didn’t get thrown in jail…
…nor did I run off with some girl…
…I also didn’t get kidnapped…
(these were all theories I’ve heard so far)
The quick version is this… I went to Mammoth for 3 days, then I was sick […]

Friday, January 5th, 2007Friday, January 5th, 2007

Keywords For My Blog

Shoemoney had an interesting post where he posts some of the analytic stats for his blog, so I decided to do a little of the same (I’m too lazy to take a bunch of screenshots and make them all fancy with shadows like he did, but here’s one for you…)
Thankfully, the #1 keyword (besides my […]

Sunday, November 19th, 2006Sunday, November 19th, 2006

Watch Guy Play Wii Live

You can watch this guy play his new video game console for a week straight… Kind of funny actually, as you can hear him talking to his friends about how many people are watching him and them being surprised it hasn’t crashed yet.

http://www.xanga.com/yoshismadness

Monday, November 13th, 2006Monday, November 13th, 2006

Most Commented Blog Entry

Holy crap… I pretty much forgot about my Winn and Sims vs. Me blog (the whole thing was over 2 years ago).
But I happened to notice that some of the entries have over 100 comments, with one having 466 comments as of right now.
http://www.winn-and-sims.com/2004/08/cavalry-portfolio-services.html
A pretty lame blog entry IMO to get almost 500 (and counting) […]

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

WordPress Makes You Blog More

Is it possible that WordPress makes you blog more vs. Blogger? I’m not sure why, but for whatever reason I seem to write more since I switched to WordPress.
This chart shows the number of posts per month I’ve made…

Friday, October 6th, 2006Friday, October 6th, 2006

How The MPAA Launched My Blog

Someone pointed out something kind of funny/ironic… Since the MPAA decided to sue me, they have actually made my blog a few times more popular than their own site (mpaa.org). If you look look at the Alexa graph below, the green line is the old URL for this blog, the blue line is […]

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

New Domain

Well, I decided to switch my personal blog to it’s own domain (shawnhogan.com in case you didn’t notice), since the new address is easier to remember. So uhm… yeah. That’s the new URL.
UpdateOkay, the old URLs properly redirect to the new ones, the photo gallery works and I updated all […]

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Map Of Digg Traffic

At the beginning of last November, I had the idea to do an automatic geolocation system for blog/website owners called Geo Visitors.
This blog got quite a bit of traffic in the last 24 hours (because of a front-page digg). Anyway, check out what the maps look like for visitors to this blog in the […]

Friday, April 28th, 2006Friday, April 28th, 2006

WordPress Is NOT Scaleable

The core of WordPress (this blog software) is pretty much a piece of crap as far as it’s “guts” are concerned (although I knew this already, I just didn’t care because my blog doesn’t get enough visitors to really make that fact matter much).
Anyway, I woke up this morning to my servers being thrashed (database […]

Thursday, March 30th, 2006Thursday, March 30th, 2006

And Google Said, Let There Be Shawn.

This was taken from the Book of Google (chapter 1, verse 1-5)…
In the beginning Google created the web.
Now the web was formless and empty. Spam was on the surface of the results, and the spirit of Google was hovering over the face of the index.
And Google said, “Let there be Shawn”. And there […]

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

“…Shove It Up My Weener Hole…”

I think Shawn (a different Shawn, not me) gets the award for the best comment on my blog for 2005…
“I will just shove it up my weener hole whenever I visit.”
It’s pretty funny when taken out of context… and just as funny when it’s in context (original comment).
As an award for Shawn, I will not […]

Friday, October 28th, 2005Friday, October 28th, 2005

Live Email Validation

Here’s a handy bit of PHP code that will take the email variable, lookup the mail server for the domain, log into the mail server and see if it will accept delivery for that address.<?php
$split = preg_split(’/^(.*)<(.*)>(.*)/’, $_REQUEST[’email’], -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE|PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
$email = array_pop ($split);
$split = explode (”@”, $email);
$domain = $split[1];

getmxrr ($domain, $a, $b);
if ($a) {
foreach ($a […]

Thursday, October 20th, 2005Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Dude, I’m Awesome!

Well… I decided to write my own PHP script to rip out the old comments (from when this was a Blogger blog), parse them, format them and insert them into the database for WordPress.
The cool part is it all worked on the first try. That’s pretty amazing if you ask me (and that’s why […]

Saturday, October 15th, 2005Saturday, October 15th, 2005

Switched To WordPress

Not that anyone would really notice, but I’ve switched this blog from Blogger to WordPress (finally). It’s been something I wanted to do for a long time, but I hated all the templates for WordPress. So I finally got off my butt and made my own.
Comments were lost… not that you guys had […]

Thursday, October 13th, 2005Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Another blog you have to see to believe!

This is my annual “Blog You Have To See To Believe” entry. I spend an entire year going through over a million blogs. Then I pick one blog per year that is just so unbelievable and cool, everyone has to see it for themselves.
Words cannot describe it, so just check it out.
You can […]

Friday, July 29th, 2005Friday, July 29th, 2005

People DO Read My Blog!

Well, I posted a picture of my friend (a guy) wearing a bikini top yesterday at 4:21 pm as an experiment to see how long it would take him to notice and call me. It was less than 24 hours (without anyone telling him).
Sorry if you missed it, but I since took it down […]

Monday, June 13th, 2005Monday, June 13th, 2005

My Mom’s Blog Sucks

You know what? I try to help a mom out… hype up her blog and drive hundreds of thousands of visitors. And what’s the thanks I get? Nothing. Her blog hasn’t been updated in 6 months.
That makes me look foolish for sending all my dedicated readers (which is like me and […]

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

Blogger Stats

I wonder if Google is ever going to fix it so Blogger stats are updated on user’s profiles. It’s now been over 6 months before any user’s stats were updated (and counting). According to blogger, my last post was on November 3rd, and one of my blogs (which has well over 100 posts […]

Monday, April 25th, 2005Monday, April 25th, 2005

Pink Is The New Blog

It’s really rare for me to post about someone else’s blog unless it’s *really* good. But I ran across one today.
http://trent.blogspot.com/
It’s really just some guy rambling about celebrities, and I’m not one to give a rat’s ass about celebrities… but it’s pretty funny. Another nice thing is that it’s updated more than once […]

Friday, December 31st, 2004Friday, December 31st, 2004

Interesting Auction News

Can I make a blog entry about starting a new blog?
You know what? It’s my blog, so I can. Anyway, I’m starting a new blog about interesting auction news. Could be news itself or just random weird things people sell on eBay. You can find it over here.

Monday, November 8th, 2004Monday, November 8th, 2004

Publish To Blogger Via Email

Did you know that you can publish to your blog simply by sending an email? I didn’t until I noticed it under the Email tab under Preferences.
This is my first post ever that I published without logging into Blogger. Let’s hope it works.

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004

How To Hide Deleted Comments In Blogger

It’s really annoying when someone spams your comments in Blogger (or accidentally posts twice). You can delete the comment, but it’s not “really” deleted… instead it has a message saying the comment was deleted by an administrator. In the case of a spammer, it’s really ugly to have 20 or so of those […]

Sunday, October 10th, 2004Sunday, October 10th, 2004

A Blog You Gotta See To Believe

I was amazed to find out that my own mom has a blog now. And I was amazed at both it’s simple brilliance and design complexity. It really makes it appeal to anyone.
You should check it out over here.

Wednesday, August 18th, 2004Wednesday, August 18th, 2004

Winn and Sims

In case anyone is bored, you can find some funny reading over at my Winn and Sims site. It’s my dealings with a law firm that sometimes seems so ridiculous that I think I’m on a hidden camera show or something.

Switching To Blogger…

My personal website is so completely out dated (years old), that I decided to switch the whole thing over to a blog. It makes it easier to mange, and maybe I’ll actually put new stuff once in awhile because of it.
If you want to run a blog, Google’s Blogger service is […]