I have reached new heights of geekiness. Why? Because I am now on the first page of Google when you search for Amelie. :D Yay! I'd been stuck in 11th place (top of the second page) for ages but now I am 10th (including repeated results - I think I'm 7th without). Note that this is on Google.com - I'm still 11th on Google.co.uk. I'm on the first page for most other Google TLDs though. Wonder why Google UK is being so slow to update? Hmph.

Oh yes, excuse the mess - I'm in the middle of having my account moved over to another server. WP has been bouncing up and down all morning and then for some reason all sites on the server were showing up as a client's. Errr, right.

In other highly interesting news, CG was hacked yesterday. This marks the third site in 5 days that I've seen hacked. A couple of the CG staff have been having their sites repeatedly attacked and I have to wonder what on earth they have done to deserve this. Hackers (or "script kiddies" as these people normally tend to be) and spammers earn zero in terms of respect from me. Especially those who lie about stuff they've found in order to make themselves look good and others look bad (thanks for ruining my reputation, kthxihateyoubye). Wow so you've found your way into something that isn't yours. What are you going to do, tell the site owner? No, of course not. You're going to delete all their files, replace them with stupid crap like "H4X0Rr3D bY 1337 kR0o 2 ThOuzAnd SiXxX : mC HaX / HakKa 2k / PeAc3 2 ALL n0 waR", then take some screenshots and plug yourself on Zone H. That's really mature of you. *Rolls eyes*

Anyway. I was going to say that I think WP is a problem and that hackers are finding their way in through there somehow. I'm not sure how, but as soon as I've finished my custom blog script, I am getting rid of WP and replacing it. Hmph.
This post had better not disappear as soon as I've posted it... Bah to nameserver propagation and all that >:(

Edit: Hmph. Since writing this post, Google's decided I'm back to 11th on Google.com and 12th on Google.co.uk. Wah :( Or not! Google is odd.

How on earth is it already August?! Where is the time going? Noooo

My internet is slow. Either that or all the sites I'm trying to visit are slow. One or two of them work, the rest don't. Blah.

The heatwave has died down at last, though I sort of wish it hadn't... It's been replaced with the usual summer weather for this country - rain, more rain, yet more rain and temperatures not quite making it into the 20°C (about 60°F? Not sure) region. That still doesn't stop our bedroom from being really hot and humid (even with the window open) and therefore stopping me from sleeping. Like now, it's 5:15am and I should probably not be on my computer at this time.

Anyway. I'm working on a custom blog/content management script. I'm really pleased with it so far, although the functionality kind of resembles WP in many ways so I'm not sure there'll be much point to it other than the fact that it's teaching me a lot in terms of PHP and stuff. So far I have posting (drafts, private entries, password protected entries), commenting, comment moderation and fancy URLs that don't rely on mod_rewrite. :D Yay! I don't have an admin panel yet, so that's the next step. It gets a bit annoying having to login to phpMyAdmin every time I want to approve some of my testers' comments, or edit/delete an entry/comment :P The script is completely written by me, but it borrows 3 functions from WP - mostly formatting stuff because I can't do regular expressions. Those functions are the 'safe' title generator, the entities converter for posts, and the nl2p function. I'm sure I'll eventually be able to "get" regexes and be able to rewrite all that myself (I really need to rewrite it all - WP's functions mess up my stuff by changing absolutely EVERYTHING into alternative entities...), but for now I'm going to use WP's until I get the rest of the script done. And no, I haven't been using the Build A Blog tutorial series, or indeed any tutorial series. This work is (mostly) all miiiiine. Heh.