I discovered that MT.Net‘s once-impressive Technorati Authority rating is about half what it used to be. I think this drop occured when I finally pulled the redirects that pointed the old Drupal links to my site to the new WordPress ones. Even though search engines (and others) coming to old links were told by my webserver to update their links, Technorati (at least) didn’t seem to pay attention.
December 6, 2007
Cheap Thoughts: flying saucer(s)
Allow me to put on my tinfoil hat for a moment and present a crazy idea.
I do lots of thinking at 30,000 feet. I even do some at 10,000 feet on approach. Tonight I was marveling at the skill in which the pilot was using the rudder to counter the strong crosswind we were flying through. It planted a seed in my mind.
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Bad behavior from Bad Behavior
I was blogging away happily from the Atlanta airport tonight when suddenly MT.Net didn’t like me anymore. I got a message from my Bad Behavior blog spam blocker flagging my IP address. Since I was coming from the airport WiFi’s gateway address, I assumed that spammers and the like may have sent spam from the airport and gotten the address blacklisted. Still, I managed to get in one post from the WiFi before it blocked me, so that didn’t seem to be the right answer.
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