Yearly Archives: 2011
Upgrading old Gentoo installations 1
Sometimes for whatever reason You need to upgrade an old or really old Gentoo installation. Reinstall just is not an option. Upgrading old Gentoo installations is not really a plain sailing. All sorts of circular dependencies come up. For example portage is 2.1.6.13, bash is 3.2_p39 and python is 2.5.4.… Read the rest
Website statistics. Awstats and Adsense.
After years of relaying on Awstats for my web site statistics I also added Google Analytics. The final push came from adding Adsense. If I already have many external javascripts running on every page of my site, then one more makes no real difference. … Read the rest
Adding Google Custom Search Engine to WordPress 1
Google promotes it’s services in subtle ways. After integrating some Google services, like Adsense into my webpage it was time for Google Site Search. Search is not really used much on my webpage, but it does not take really long to integrate it. … Read the rest
Saabiklubi kalender 2011 September
Saabiklubi kalendri 2011 Septembrikuu foto sai tehtud 2010 augustis Pärnus. Täpsemalt vana Pärnu silla kõrval sadamakail. Sõitsin spetsiaalselt siis veel Ivometsale kuuluvat Sonett III-e pildistama. See oli esimene ja siiani ka ainus kord kui ma kellegi autot spetsiaalselt pildistamas olen käinud.… Read the rest
SaabSpeed 2009 afterparty
Accurate LM35 readings
Sometimes LM35 analog temperature sensors give inconsistent readings. Reading fluctuations are simply too high. Specially if LM35 sensor is connected using a cable that is a meter long or longer. There are some techniques tu compensate for those fluctuations and get more consistent readings.… Read the rest
WordPress category sensitive page navigation
Many WordPress themes, including Suffusion, show links to next and previous posts by default. This is a nice feature to have but in my opinion not a deal-breaker if it is missing. One thing that annoyed me a bit was that those links were not category sensitive.… Read the rest
Lowering the bounce rate
One thing that got my attention after installing Google analytics was bounce rate. The amount of visitors that see the first, landing, page of the site and leave. The shortest and most accurate description for bounce rate I did encounter was ‘I came, I puked, I left’.… Read the rest
WordPress comment spam
During my usage of Drupal I had almost negligible amount of comment spam. About one or two per month. Those comments were usually containing some links to not so useful web pages. I got used to removing those comments manually. After running my website on WordPress for a few days I got about 10 spam comments.… Read the rest