Archive for Technical Crap
Check Your Bookmarks!
Posted by: | CommentsWell hello there again Hooligans. I just have a small piece of business here for you.
For the more internet savy, you might’ve noticed the address up there in your browser ends with a .us
Now most websites end with the .com, thus the dot com era was born! No one much talks about the dot us era nor the dot biz era. Does .etc exist?
The point is: you might have mistakenly bookmarked scrutinyhooligans.com instead of scrutinyhooligans.us. The reason you don’t second guess a left at Albuquerque is that we currently have any scrutinyhooligans.com traffic redirected to the correct scrutinyhooligans.us address.
The problem is something might go hinky with that redirect starting February 1st. We might need a few days to work it out. Don’t worry! The site will still be running. Just make sure you have the .us address in your bookmark! Go check right now!
Please let us know if you have any questions in the comments. I will try to get back to you by the evening.
You may now return to your normally scheduled hooliganism. Thank you.
DNC2012 Open Thread #1
Posted by: | CommentsHeya, Hooligans. Tom Sullivan and I are at Hooligan HQ (a.k.a. the Days Inn on N. Tryon St). Tom made a valiant attempt to collect our credentials, but the Secret Service decided to sweep the Convention Center, evacuating it and shooing away anyone who wanted in. There are law enforcement folks all over the place, air and land.
So we’re planning on just crashing the NC Welcome party tonight at the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
This week you’ll have lots of ways to follow the Convention. There are the conventional ways, with your cable news channels and whatnot, and then there are the new media methods:
I’m at Twitter – https://twitter.com/gordondsmith
and at Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/gordonsmithasheville
ScruHoo at YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/user/TheScrutinyHooligans?feature=mhee
Official info – http://www.demconvention.com/
Please include your preferred links and info in the comments. We’ve got to get washed up!
1,000,021 a.k.a. Saturday Open Thread
Posted by: | CommentsWell none of us were really paying attention, and we missed ScruHoo’s millionth hit altogether.
Best I could do was this screen capture of hit number 1,000,021. So the person who came here 21 people before this joker wins the prize.
Actually there’s no prize. All in all the whole thing is as anticlimactic as things come.
A million came here before you. Use this thread to tell them about the future.
Site Updates
Posted by: | CommentsHowdy folks. Just wanted to let y’all know that we’ve been doing some of that there updatin’ lately. We got ourselves the latest version of this fix and a new plugin for that thingamabob and gosh knows what else! All I can tell ya is that things are gonna look just a wee bit different round these parts. Now don’t ya go on worrying or nothing. Things will be just fine. Your eyes will get used to it I reckon. Mine did. Ok so now that I got that off my chest, you can all go back to your regularly scheduled hooliganism or whatever.
Tuesday Open Thread – Millionth
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The biggest topic of conversation at the Hooligan Conclave last week, aside from who looked best in the African hat we purchased from another patron, was how we should mark Scrutiny Hooligans’ one millionth hit. That’s right. In a few weeks, ScruHoo will have its millionth visitor.
Were you the master of all things bloggy, how would you come at it? Prize for the person? Exploding .gif? Ignore it altogether? Tickets to watch a secret meeting with Tim Moffitt, Nathan Ramsey, David King, Joe Belcher, Mike Fryar and their employees?
Or, you can use this thread to talk about the other exciting things going on in the world and in your minds. Enjoy.
Scrutiny Hooligans – Still Admin Free
Posted by: | CommentsWhat’s amazing is that this blog has been operating for some time with no one at the controls. Sometimes I miss the occasional disemvoweling, and I wonder how many WordPress updates we’ve missed. That is all.
Friday Open Thread
Posted by: | CommentsSince ScruHoo ported from Blogger to WordPress on April 1, 2007, there have been 4,326 posts, 30,634 comments, and Akismet has kept 37,587 spam comments from appearing. According to Sitemeter, there have been 749,219 individual hits to this blog since April 1, 2007 and 203,200 hits prior to that. Maybe we ought to start a pool on when the millionth hit will happen.
According to NewStatPress the most popular operating system of people and bots hitting this blog is Windows XP. The most popular browser is Mozilla with Chrome in a distant second.
None of that is particularly relevant to anything, just thought I’d share. It’s your thread. Do with it what you will.
Another Upgrade
Posted by: | CommentsPurpleCat Networks, our excellent Asheville-based web host, is going to be migrating ScruHoo onto a new server this weekend, tentatively scheduled to start at midnight this coming Saturday/Sunday. This will be a good thing for readers, contributors, occasional commenters, and me. But this will result in a few hours of downtime, after which a better, faster and more secure ScruHoo will await you.
Thanks again for your patience and support.
We’re Going Down! (only for a few minutes, hopefully)
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Just FYI, we’re going to be putting ScruHoo up on a lift and performing some badly needed maintenance tasks on it this afternoon starting at around 3:00 pm. This will require taking the site offline, but we don’t expect this to take more than an hour.
We thank you for your patience and support.
UPDATE (4:17 PM): We’re back up, and everything seems to be running smoothly.
You! With the Cell Phone (or Other Mobile Device)!
Posted by: | CommentsI’m still tweaking the settings and looking for something other than an Droid to test this on, but ScruHoo should now be easier to read and navigate on a cell phone, loading a minimal template instead of trying to cram the full version on your small screen. Give it a try!
Also, if you’re using an iPhone/iPod Touch, Blackberry or any other mobile internet-enabled thingy, let us know how we’re looking.
Oh yeah, go vote!
