For the past two or three weeks, I've felt like I've been getting nothing done. I think it's because I'm juggling too many projects. Even if I work an eight-hour day (oh, the horror!), I'm only spending a few hours each on several different tasks, making progress on none. Very frustrating. And when I'm frustrated, it makes it hard to blog because I feel like I should be doing something else.

So if you don't mind, I'm going to go do something else.

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Last week a friend complained that he couldn't search my blog to see if I'd seen a particular movie. That's because at the time, the Wriphe.com search function only checked against keywords. I've since upgraded the search function so you can now look to see if I've ever posted about, say, my favorite Batman villain Harvey Dent (aka Two-Face) or my favorite food group, chocolate. And, naturally, I've left the old keyword search in place as well, if you just want to click on a keyword below a post to find related posts.

That movie he was checking on? The Seven Voyages of Sinbad, which I have seen before but have never mentioned on the blog. In recent years, I've only been posting reviews of new-to-me movies, so if I saw something before 2012, it's likely not mentioned here unless I either loved it or hated it, in which case it might have its own keyword.

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Just for giggles this weekend, I wrote a script that generates a tag cloud for the blog tags that I have generated over the years here at Wriphe.com. ("Tag cloud?" you say. "That's so 2010!" Yes, well, that's about how things work around here.)

Counting today's post, I've tagged 184 posts as "football," making it the most frequently used tagb on the site. Comparatively, "Batman" falls significantly lower with only 104 mentions.

(Meanwhile, "Walter" has only 3 fewer posts than Batman. Maybe it's time to start devoting a whole month of posts to me! What I ate, how long I slept last night, the number of pieces of laundry in my hamper... the possibilities are endless!)

You can find the new keyword cloud here.

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To celebrate Independence Day, I've turned the comments function back on. I've updated the form so that new posts require my approval until the system learns who you are. This should make it easier for those of you who like to comment frequently to avoid encountering that annoying captcha form. I'm doubtful that it will have any effect at all on the spambots.

If anyone finds a bug — there are certainly bugs — please let me know.

This change required rewriting the back-end code to make it more Web 2.1 compatible. Sadly, this will not make the site faster, as the slowness of the page to respond to requests is a side-effect of limited server memory. I'm considering migrating servers for a more consistently reliable response time. I'll spare no expense for my 12 readers!

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Right now, you cannot comment on any posts at Wriphe.com unless you send me an email through the contact form. Some site visitors have expressed displeasure over this change.

Because of spam, I cannot just let any comments go live without my approval. However, I am considering implementing a moderation queue that would hold posts from unapproved sources until I could review them for content. I could then conceivably give cookies to approved readers to let them bypass the annoying captcha fields.

Of course, there's no point in coding any of this if none of my 12 readers is interested in leaving me any comments. So if anyone reading would prefer that system to the current one (or if you have other ideas), email me via my contacts form and let me know.

Thank you for your consideration.

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I don't have anything to say today. I'm too tired after a long "holiday" weekend of puppy-sitting, goat-weaning, and house-painting. According to Google Analytics, fewer than 6 people are hitting my blog per day, so I hope that the 12 of you who might stop by in the next 48 hours won't be too disappointed that there isn't any new content here until I post the new poodle strip on Thursday. Sorry.

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Encountered at www.daveexmachina.com:

As I read that, I had the sudden suspicion that "Dave" had dropped by wriphe.com. Then I realized that I haven't posted about any comics I've read for a few months now at least.

Whew! I'm sure my blog is far more clever and insightful than whatever he was talking about, anyway. Yeah, that's the ticket.

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It's been two months since I had a comment on wriphe.com that wasn't spam, so I've changed the commenting process to use the contact form. From now on, the only person who can comment at wriphe.com is me, which I consider kind of fitting.

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I'm having a real problem with spam comments lately. I've had 164 unique visitors in the past month, and most of them were spambots. (I assume they were all looking for posts on spandex. According to Google, that's all anyone wants from this site.)

The spam comments are always attached to an old post. I don't know how they are finding my older posts. The code here is so f'd up, even I can't get to my old posts. I should probably fix that, but then I'd only get more spam.

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