Ark's Ark » Site News http://www.arksark.org/blog Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming, Current Affairs, and Random Stuff! Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:10:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New theme in progresshttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5538/new-theme-in-progress/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5538/new-theme-in-progress/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:56:09 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5538 My old theme was rather old and couldn’t handle a lot of more modern WordPress features. So today, I’m going to be breaking things left right and center, as I try to get a new theme to behave itself. the site may look a little odd at times. Wish me luck!!

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I was hoping that I was going to be able to write a relieved post today about how it turns out I don’t actually have cancer after all. Unfortunately, after my hospital appointment today, we still don’t know, and so [...]

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Or don’t. That’s cool too. The chances of you missing anything vital to your well-being is slim, unless your well-being depends on what I have for lunch or what I think of the latest MMO outrage! I do usually tweet if I’ve posted anything substantial here though.

Update: Changed the date on this to get it back on the front page for a bit!

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/1623/follow-me-on-twitter/feed/ 0 In Which Ark’s Ark Is Subject to Mysterious Assaulthttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5302/in-which-ark-s-ark-is-subject-to-mysterious-assault/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5302/in-which-ark-s-ark-is-subject-to-mysterious-assault/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:32:34 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5302 Strange and deeply worrying things are afoot.

An increasing number of WordPress sites around the internet appear to be getting hacked, and having invisible links placed within them that bring visitors to medicine related posts on this site. Posts that do not exist. Visitors I would rather do without. It started with the Infendo site. If you look in its source code, you’ll see a load of links here, but I’m seeing more sites doing this every day, and it [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5302/in-which-ark-s-ark-is-subject-to-mysterious-assault/feed/ 0 Dizzy.http://www.arksark.org/blog/4921/dizzy/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/4921/dizzy/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:58:46 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=4921 I’ve just started some new medication, and it’s giving me some fairly impressive dizziness and nausea. It’ll most likely just be for a few days while my body is getting used to it, but it does mean that I’m less than eager to go running around in phase 5 of Rift’s Beta test. Hopefully we’ll pick up the liveblog in phase 6.

This post is far too short. Help me out, Mr Reeves!

Unbelievably, that’s really the only video [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/4921/dizzy/feed/ 0 Ark’s Ark Visitor Browser Usage Statshttp://www.arksark.org/blog/4238/ark-s-ark-visitor-browser-usage-stats/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/4238/ark-s-ark-visitor-browser-usage-stats/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:22:34 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=4238 Just for fun (or what counts as fun to web-based folks like myself) I thought it might be interesting to post this little bit of data regarding the browsers people used to visit this site. They’re a fair bit different to the ratios shown appearing in Steam’s newly released hardware survey, though of course they have a rather larger sample size! Compared with the Steam sample, we have rather less Firefox, and a lot more Chrome going on.

I’m impressed [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/4238/ark-s-ark-visitor-browser-usage-stats/feed/ 5 In which I shill for my webhost.http://www.arksark.org/blog/3110/in-which-i-shill-for-my-webhost/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/3110/in-which-i-shill-for-my-webhost/#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:00:37 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=3110 I’ve brought this old post from April up from the depths, as just for Black Friday, Arvixe is offering 50% off for life for any of its shared hosting options, if you use the coupon code “Black Friday”, meaning that you can get hosting from just $2 a month. I’m always a little uncomfortable making posts like this, but it is a pretty good deal that might be of interest to some of my readers. Also, I like money.

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/3489/wordpress-3-is-here/feed/ 2 Flattry will get you everywherehttp://www.arksark.org/blog/3279/flattry-will-get-you-everywhere/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/3279/flattry-will-get-you-everywhere/#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 17:24:20 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=3279 The observant amongst you may have noticed another button mysteriously appear in my overcrowded sidebar. It’s a Flattr button, and with any luck you’ll start seeing such buttons pop up all around the internet. It’s something of an experiment, but it is a rather innovative way for folks to reward content creators such as bloggers, musicians, and podcasters for their work without having to fiddle about with rewarding them individually. It also neatly avoids the creator feeling awkward or embarrassed [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/3279/flattry-will-get-you-everywhere/feed/ 8 Trojan Reports from sites (like this one) using Adsense are false positives.http://www.arksark.org/blog/2332/trojan-reports-from-sites-like-this-one-using-adsense-are-false-positives/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/2332/trojan-reports-from-sites-like-this-one-using-adsense-are-false-positives/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:06:30 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=2332 Ahoy, dear readers.

A couple of you have gotten in touch today telling me that your virus checkers have been going nuts this morning when visiting this site. As I hadn’t changed anything overnight, I had a bit of a panic attack.

What it is (as I discovered after about 30 minutes of terror) is that the Kaspersky anti-virus software did an update overnight, which had a teeny mistake in it that gives an alarm for any website that uses [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/2332/trojan-reports-from-sites-like-this-one-using-adsense-are-false-positives/feed/ 0 The Best Way to Raise your Alexa Ranking. A Most Ingenious Paradox!http://www.arksark.org/blog/1463/the-best-way-to-raise-your-alexa-ranking-a-most-ingenious-paradox/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/1463/the-best-way-to-raise-your-alexa-ranking-a-most-ingenious-paradox/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:41:15 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=1463 The Alexa Ranking theoretically determines how popular your website is, out of all the websites in the world. It does this by extrapolating from the behaviour of users who have the Alexa plug-in installed to their browsers. For instance, this humble stop along the internet superhighway is currently the 520,865th most popular by Alexa’s rating, though it fluctuates fairly wildly. That sounds pretty awful, but there are a heck of a lot of websites out there, so it actually ain’t [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/1463/the-best-way-to-raise-your-alexa-ranking-a-most-ingenious-paradox/feed/ 0 Sitestorms off the port bow!http://www.arksark.org/blog/1256/sitestorms-off-the-port-bow/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/1256/sitestorms-off-the-port-bow/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:14:58 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=1256 I’m about to upgrade the theme this site uses. Anything could happen in the next half hour! The newer version should hopefully fix some pesky bugs that have been annoying me for a while.

I’ll try not to break anything.

Update: OK, that seems to have gone fairly painlessly. Had to tweak a bit of php to get things back to how I like them. The good news is that the new version of the theme has proper results for [...]

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