Archive for December, 2007

Turns out, over the past month, we were under a DOS-style attack from spammers. I just had to come back to work to sever the connection.
The spammers were operating out of Korea on Samsung’s network over there (yes, they have a network over there).
Anyways, they were easily the highest traffic IPs for last month, and [...]

We finally found the problem with the comment software. The folks that write it decided to add a trackback feature, similar to WordPress. It’s one of the reasons why we didn’t migrate to WordPress long ago. Unfortunately, the feature doesn’t work… and sites that auto-trackback don’t hook on. Unless you’re manually doing the trackback, [...]

The first half of December is a bad time for PhoneNews.com, and this year is no exception.
I, unfortunately, have to be away for a week… which means you won’t be seeing much from me except for new giveaways. Yes, today’s giveaway had to be delayed… see last sentence.
Adding injury to injury, Humberto Saabedra has resigned [...]

WiForums will be headed into testing later this week. With any luck, it will go without a hitch, and you’ll be wireless posting on the forums before Christmas. Happy holidays from the forums!

Yeah, we know, if you’re reading this, you probably don’t care about old backlinks. But, it is what fuels our dominant search engine position… so it’s certainly important to this site.
As you may know, we’re switching to WordPress within the next month, and it uses an entirely new URL structure. That’s a good thing… it’s [...]

My apologizes, our ongoing issue with comment posting on the news (along with my iPhone being dead-in-the-water for web access) has hindered our operations more than I expected.
We will get the full info on the $100 for best news tip and forum post up as soon as possible… it’s still coming, so stay tuned.