Site Tweaks and Trims

A few minutes of quiet time in the office, so I gave the site some yard work ...

- The email subscriptions widget in the upper right corner now works - if you plug in your email address (and go through the verification process), you'll get a note every time something new comes up on the site.

- The "Featured Video" in the right sidebar is now an automatic feed from our blip.tv account. Whenever a new video is uploaded, it'll rotate into the space. Should probably rename that to "Newest Video" or something like that ...

- That massive, six-paned "tabber" has been pulled out. Until we have several categories worth of stories to rotate through, there's no real need for it. 

php and me are friends. Sort of.

It was an odd day in the online world. I wrestled with some php coding issues, trying to get the categories to appear in a specific order. (Below the main bar, there's a sub bar for direct links to specific areas, like news, sports, etc.) After making my eyes hurt, I discovered there was a WordPress plugin that would do it automatically ... 

Of course. Why must I always reinvent the wheel?

Downloaded that, went to move it to the server and that's when I learned our servers were under attack and our network specialist had upped the firewall level just enough to block me out. (She said one of our servers was under an irc bot attack. Which sounds dangerous, but what do I know.) 

She reset some things and I got in, but then the attack must have escalated because by this afternoon, Internet access in the building was down to a crawl. And we have a really big pipe coming in ...