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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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) […]

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…

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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.

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 […]

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.

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.

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 […]