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, [...]
Yes, you read that right. It’s time for another entry in the Script Sharing category. It’s been a damn long time since I’ve posted anything here, but I’ve actually been doing a lot of scripting, and I just realized that I had some potentially useful stuff lying around. So hopefully I’ll be able to post [...]
Lately I’ve been getting a lot of users registering to the site, but fewer and fewer comments. So I’ve become suspicious of these new user registrations as the only advantage to registering is that commenting becomes ever so slightly easier. That and the fact that a lot of the names just sound so spammy. So [...]