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Comment Issues

By jelewis8 ⋅ February 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

If you have tried to leave a comment on Fringe and been redirected to a “Your comment is being moderated” paged, then that means this blog is LYING to you. It is in fact being shuttled to some nether region where bad computer code and dictators roast in a boiling mixture of turpentine, lemon juice, [...]

Massive Fringe Redesign

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 10, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

Fringe is and has been undergoing a massive redesign over the last month. The purpose for this change is to focus on a complete branding and marketing of the Fringe name as more than a blog, but as a destination site that features all manner of content. The blog is now merely one aspect of [...]

Site Wonkiness

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 13, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Sorry for the wackiness with the blog. I'm trying to determine why CSS can be so wonderful one minute and so mysterious another, and then evil even later. It's a case of floats, I am sure, but until I can determine the exact issue, please excuse the mess. Update: Fixed the problem, which was an [...]

Link Blog Active

By jelewis8 ⋅ December 8, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

As you can see, I’ve added a Link Blog to the side. This is something I’ve been wanting to add to Fringe for a while, but just never got around to it. Now if I’m feeling lazy and don’t want to post a longer article, I can still find a couple of cool links for [...]

Bloglet Subscription Fixed

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 29, 2005 ⋅ 4 comments

I just realized that Bloglet Subscription service wasn’t sending out notices of updates to Fringe, leaving all five of my subscribers wondering if I was still alive. I have fixed the error, and it will hopefully begin sending out missives once again. Feel free to subscribe – it’s a convenient way of getting your Fringe [...]

Posting Issues

By jelewis8 ⋅ February 27, 2005 ⋅ 4 comments

My account got suspended again for “high-load use” of the servers. My site doesn’t come close to batting a hit count big enough to cause this, which means that something or someone has been using my site as their own personal online punching bag. Result, server loads go up, my site gets suspended, and I [...]

Out Flooded

By jelewis8 ⋅ February 3, 2005 ⋅ One comment

I had another bout with comment spam flooding which shut my account down for about 8 hours last night. In the continuing fight to keep spam flooding under control, I’ve instituted a 10 comment per hour limit, and 100 per day limit. I doubt either will be reached by normal standards, and it will hopefully [...]

Spam Fighting Nobody

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 19, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

By no means am I a comment spam fighting superhero, nor even the poor detective who knows someone is putting down all these organized criminal enterprises with stunning and stealthy alacrity, though it’s not one of his guys, that’s for sure. Hell, I’m barely the man on the street with the mortgage and two kids [...]

Back On the Air

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 17, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Fringe is back on the air after being spammed out of service. Given that spammers target older comments by a ratio of 8 to 1, the consequence is that I am now in the process of retiring all comments older than 30 days. I’d like to keep those threads open, but I’d rather have my [...]

Another Nice Mess

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 7, 2005 ⋅ 3 comments

Basically, my host screwed me over by being totally non-responsive to support calls, and with the dirth of problems I experienced over the course of about nine months with them, I decided to seek a host that would be a better fit. Thus, I have been off the air for the last two days. My [...]

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