MySpace is the new SlashDot

10:57.29 - Wednesday 16th August 2006   (Link to This Entry)

Well maybe not quite but it's certainly getting there.

You may recall I mentioned someone creating a Fake MySpace Login using d04.net the otherday, and that I pulled it just as soon as I spotted the phishing attempt.

Well it turns out I wasn't quite quick enough, and on the 9th August I had 65,000 hits on that domain alone. I wondered why I'd experienced a bump in AdSense earnings, and it turns out 358 people had clicked on ads that were displayed as part of d04's function. I don't know whether I should be pleased about that or not.

A quick shufty through the server logs revealed the spike, and Google AdSense registered 105,000 page impressions over three days. Thankfully this is the new server and it didn't even flinch - I'm not sure how the old one would have coped.

Freeview Firmware site updated.

11:02.19 - Wednesday 16th August 2006   (Link to This Entry)

I added a load of new Panasonic machines into the Freeview Firmware Transmissions page after they appeared yesterday, and the site added the schedules in this morning.

What I really need to do is find some way of automating the adding of the actual machines, but I'm not helped by the different ways the schedules are added in: Sometimes they might enter the product codes as 'ABC123, ABC234, ABC345' and other times it's 'ABC123/234/345' or even 'ABC - all'. There's not standard for listing them, so currenty I add the machines manually.

The hope is that the RegEx I use to identify the machine will eventually just pick them out for me anyway, but to reach that point I've got to have all of the machines in the database - at least all of the supported and upgraded ones.