For all of you out there trying to combat spam on Wordpress blogs I have a growing list of IP’s for you that have spammed my blog in the past.  Many of these IP’s go blog to blog spamming and try many times a week (if not in a single day).

You could make your blog check my list when someone tries to comment on your blog and if they are present in my list, you can stop it before it appears on your site.  I hope this serves some purpose to some people.  Remember, this list will continue to grow every day.

Click here to view the list 

Some of you might remember I use to have stats on my site a long time ago.  Well, they’re back…sort of…

By clicking the new Site Info button at the top of the site, you can now view stats that are specific to my site.  These stats, however, only show minimal information.  Plus, these stats only include hits to my wordpress (what runs my site) portion of my website.  Therefor, it doesn’t include hits for like images, downloads, or other stuff.

I may eventually release this as a stats plugin for wordpress.

This last Wednesday I completed my first year of college at ITT-Tech.  So far I have got mostly all A’s :).  I will update later once I get my grades for this last quarter.

As of right now, if I only get my Associates I am now half way through.  I was advised to try to get a job by my school after I get that and hopefully whoever I get a job with will send me back, and pay for, my Bachelors.   Either way I want to get my Bachelors, unless I get a really good job right out of school and figure it a waste of time and money.

So far I am really liking ITT-Tech.  They have great teachers, a great facility, and I actually get to apply what I learn in labs.  This is a big step over Ivy Tech that I started at in 2005 which had almost no hands on stuff.   I know I get a lot of people landing on my site searching about ITT-Tech that are considering going there and I must say I recommend them.  I know a lot of bad stuff is said about ITT-Tech on the Internet but I haven’t found any of it to be true really.

Well, hopefully a year from now I’ll be posting about my graduation

Till next time…

In February, my site saw an nice increase in traffic.  I reached 40,000 hits for the first time since October 2007 when I held a contest on my site that drew nearly 100,000 hits.  This is only the 3rd time my site has every hit the 40K mark in hits since I opened it back in 2005.

Overall my site saw 40341 hits with 6274 unique hits!  That last part there is a new record! 

That means that 6274 different people visited my site last month.  Granted some of those are bots, like google, but most of them are real people.

I really don’t know the reason for the high success…especially since I didn’t even post in February … but I think this is good motivation for me to spend some more time updating my site.