OK, now this is based on a database too... While it's a little more server intensive than using an SSI for a plain text file, it allows me to more easily do things like show only the last 10 entries on the front page and have the rest be behind a link. While it doesn't make much of a difference now, imagine if I actually start updating this a lot more frequently. :)

In importing/reading through older entries while importing them I noticed some major spelling/grammar mistakes (it looks like spring finals of 2001 really wiped me out ("finals are friday over" - I'd say that's an appropriate statement of the usual feeling). Sorry to everyone who suffered through them - I'll try to be better in the future.

Not much else is new. I ripped out all the old Commission Junction ads from qux.net that I wasn't getting anything from anyways since most of the advertisers stopped their campaigns. Oh well, now there is a 50% chance of getting an ad, and both the two ads are for yafiygi.com. I'm trying to even out the total hits for yafiygi.com, and the new weighting system helps a lot. I can seed in a bunch of "views" that cause it to effictively ignore a site for a while, and the cleanup is semi-automatic (it'll clean itself up, but if I'm not careful it'll jump back the other way when they are dropped since they won't have any legit visits and the weighting will be really low). I'm debating adding a cookie tracker to force it to not visit sites repeatedly if someone visits multiple times. I have a feeling that some people may not like cookies though, and since it's not a problem yet that I've seen I'll probably ignore it for now.

I think it's time to head off to bed now - maybe another update tomorrow...