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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2011.03.27

The amazon experiment went as expected; I racked up one referral sale in the months since I added their ads to my site.

So I've removed the Amazon ads for the moment and have instead added a larger banner ad across the top of the page for a single "product": my book of street photos from Tokyo.

Also, I discovered an embarrassing error in the home-grown content delivery system that I use to manage and deliver this site. It was a combination of my clever anti-spam algorithm and my clever site-caching routine. The former requires that unique form element names be used during the submission of a comment, while the latter ensures that visitors to the site aren't being served those unique codes because they're seeing instead a cached version of the page. That cached version contains form elements whose names have long since timed out, thereby defeating any legitimate attempt at submitting a request. Took me a while to sort that one out, as you can probably imagine. Dum, duh-dum-dum, dumb!

rand()m quote

I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

—Terry Pratchett (as Lord Vetinari)