Two and a half years ago I switched from Web Hosting Buzz to MediaTemple for the web hosting of this site. When I made that switch I made it clear that I would be monitoring the situation, and that if MediaTemple’s hosting service ever became problematic, I would move on to yet another provider. Today [...]
I’ve made a few changes to the site’s appearance. Hopefully these will help with readability, which was the intent. To start, I’ve pretty much gone with a black and white color scheme. Body text is now a dark gray and links are black. The only place we see color, really, is in the rollovers. Hopefully [...]
I don’t know, my eyes have been bugging me lately. Chalk it up to old age. But the fact is, it was getting so I could barely stand to look at my own blog, what with the high contrast, bright blue color scheme and all. So I’ve changed the colors. Not as exciting as the [...]
Well, as promised, I performed my little experiment and have come to the conclusion that, for this site at least, Google’s AdSense is an abysmal failure. Here’s how it all went down. Getting an AdSense account was pretty easy — just sign up and wait for approval. And approval was quick as I’d submitted my site [...]
Pingbacks are those little snippets of text that get inserted into your comments section whenever someone links to your blog from another site. You can turn them on or off and, I believe, they need to be enabled on the originating site as well. For some folks they can be really useful as a way [...]
The Adventures of Systemsboy has been ad-free for it’s entire existence. But as I head into my fifth year I find myself thinking more and more about reaping some financial rewards from the many hours I put into this site. TASB was never planned as a financial endeavor. But our budget’s been somewhat tighter with [...]
About all I have time or energy for at the moment is to note a few random items of interest. The first is Jeffrey Zeldman’s Write When Inspired (via Daring Fireball, of course). Take it as the rationale for the current blight of posts here. And take it as sage advice. Sometimes I beat myself [...]
You would probably think that after writing this blog for so many years and dealing with all manner of comment I would be immune to it, but comment snark probably bugs be more now than it ever has. There’s something deeply infuriating about someone coming onto my little corner of the Internet and behaving rudely. [...]
Beginning Tuesday (Hey! That’s today!) I’ll be on vacation for the week. But don’t worry! You’ll still get your regular, US Recommended Daily (well, not quite daily) Allowance of systemsy goodness while I’m gone. How, you say? Well, through the magic of scheduling, of course. Never trust a blog engine that doesn’t allow you to [...]
My name is Systems Boy. Hi there. We have a new look today. It’s based on a WordPress theme called Blue by Sean McPherson of Brambling Design. I’ve taken some liberties with Blue, enlarging some of the fonts, changing some colors and widening the post area. But the basic look remains the same: clean, simple, [...]