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Since I upgraded my system awhile back I lost all of my archives but fortunately the html pages are still there. I will be reposting them as I get the chance.

I have moved TheAppDotNet to a new Movabletype installation running Motion, the latest incarnation of MT 4.25

That means a few changes and some fixes, as well as most likely a few bugs. I have allowed commenting again, using some different methods to catch spam, hopefully that will take care of it. You have a few options if you want to comment. You can either sign up here for an account as I will be putting in several community options over the next few weeks, and you can also sign in using Facebook Connect, Vox or Livejournal. Any of the above will do. I may also be implementing OpenID shortly.

In addition to those changes we will also have more contributors on the site. It's obvious that I can't keep up with running this site full time, my crime blog full time AND work 50-80 hours a week at my real job, so the help is very welcome. The folks over at Devicepedia will be contributing here and I think with the added help we should start to see regular updates. I will continue to post music and entertainment posts as well as those related to Blackberrys, Windows Customization and Home Automation.

If you have any problems with the site OR suggestions to improve it, please feel free to shoot me an email at blogger@shadowscope.com

Due to the huge amount of comment spam I have been getting over the last few days I have turned off comments temporarily. It's not as if I have been doing anything on the poor neglected blog lately anyway.

I have all but stopped doing the paid links and nonsense posts now and will sooner or later get back to posting actual technology related posts.

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For some reason when a comment is posted it's no rebuilding or showing up. Very weird. I am in the middle of upgrading and redoing the templates over at one of my other sites on the same server but that shouldn't have any type of effect on the ones here.

I will look into it later in the week and see if I can get things sorted out. Release Candidate 5 of the MT beta is out and I need to upgrade anyway so I may do that and see if I can fix that along with a couple of other display issues at the same time.

Slowly but surely I am reimporting the archives. All of my posts from the last year and a half were lost a couple of months ago in an upgrade but of course my static html pages are still there. I have to copy and paste into posts each and every one.

I have February 2007 finished now and will start on March pretty soon. Hopefully by the end of the year I will have them all finished :)

The biggest problem is time. I never have enough time in the day to finish everything that I want to, particularly with blogging. With all of the sites I run I just barely get everything finished that I want to.

Today has been no exception. After work I had to go to the store and pick up a couple of baby gifts for a friend of ours and then just came home. Originally I had planned on stopping at the gym and working out but I felt terrible so just came home.

I have been writing a bit about the Caylee Anthony case and am now doing daily updates at Shadowscope

Please come over an join in the discussion if you have an opinion on the case. There are also pertinent links and phone numbers if you have information on the case.

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I am getting ready to take another plunge and upgrade Movabletype 4.2 release candidate 2 to 3. I made a full backup of the system last night in case anything gets hosed so if the sites go down shortly, they'll be back up eventually.

Still can't get the friendfeed comment importer to work, I am hoping after the upgrade that it might...

After I strangle someone...

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I've imported a few more of the missing posts from the last couple of months. Since I use static pages ALL of the posts are still there and indexed but they aren't currently linked to from the main or archives pages.

As time goes by I will continue importing them into the site. Anyone interested in helping out let me know. I have no spare time for this unfortunately but if you are interested in working a bit on the site, or heck, even becoming an author here, let me know.

So you may have noticed that I have hosed the site pretty badly :(

I do have everything saved but I just don't have the time to rewrite (even with copy and paste) all of the entries on the site. I will get the last month's worth back online in the next couple of days and recreate the ones I can't copy and paste with.

I am pretty upset. I do have physical backups but I can't import the stuff easily. It's unfortunate that it was four different blogs too.

I am running this back on the same server as Shadowscope so there should be less problems (I hope)

Blog ranking services are kind of funny. In the end how they rank you really doesn't matter. I have always assumed that because most of them pull data from stuff like how many blogs Technorati thinks link to you, or how many visits per day you "should be getting" based on backlinks. I still use the occasionally go check out the Truth Laid Bear for example to see where I sit, although TTLB seems to be up and down and not real reliable.

Not only that but I like seeing actual traffic and statistics as well as demographics. It's not necessarily as important on some of my sites as it is on the ones that are monetized but I still like to see who's visiting me and how often. Just one of those control things I guess.

I started using Izea Ranks a few months ago to see how well they work. I use MyBlogLog, Google Analytics and IZEARanks. Why three? I wanted to see how accurate they were. They all show slightly different statistics but are somewhat close to my own. The thing about any of these is that generally their code is loaded via JavaScript so if the portion of the page never gets loaded that the JavaScript is listed on, that visit never gets counted.

Anyhow, so far I like IZEARanks. They rank the blogosphere (or the portion that's using IZEARanks) using real traffic and link data rather than just extrapolating the information using some kind of formula which may or may not be even close to the truth. What's really cool is the fact that the algorithm used to find RealRank is public, not some hidden page ranking score that you don't have any idea how to come up with it.

Really though, where you rank and how many visits you get isn't as important as enjoying myself is. That's the bottom line. What kind of satisfaction I get in return for the time I put into my site is much more important than any rank, whether it's found by real numbers or mathematical formulas.