If things work as they should, this blog will go offline sometime tomorrow morning, and return Thursday morning.

It's 4:20 PM here and there have already been over 500 hits.  Not quite as bad as yesterday, but still.

Oh well, I could use a few days off, anyway.  Maybe by Thursday some of the furor will have died down.

Yesterday when I said the traffic was almost as high as last Tuesday, I was wrong.  It was higher.


I don't know exactly why there was a new explosion of traffic.  Most of it came from search hits.  I guess everyone is playing weekend catch-up.  It's certainly been a record-setting week here.

I figured out the problem, but I still don't know why it happened.  I had edited the base template so that when certain sites pick up my rss feed, it will show the name only as "Blogonomicon" instead of "Blogonomicon:  Main Page."  For some reason, this made the link button not work.

So if anyone sees the name of this blog turn up somewhere with that "Main Page" attached, that's why.  It doesn't look right, but I guess there's nothing I can do about it.

But I've had to go into comment moderation mode.  I'll change it back, I hope, once this hoopla dies down more.  Today the traffic is almost as bad as last Tuesday.

Comments are permanently closed on the original post.  The Zumbotees are coming out of the woodworks, proving that too many members of the hunting community refuse to get it even when slapped in the face with it.

For those of you who think black rifles should be banned so you can continue to hunt:  I wash my hands of you.  You are nothing but Quislings who are willing to sacrifice an essential freedom just so you can extend your willful stupidity a little longer.

Ignorance is one thing, it merely shows a lack of knowledge or perhaps wisdom.  But when such knowledge is supplied in force, those who refuse to accept it are no longer ignorant.  They are stupid.

P.S.  Folks, this blog has no connection to Zumbo whatsoever.  If you want to tell him something, contact Outdoor Life or leave a note at that T*d N*gent forum, because complaining about it here just isn't going to work.  This blog isn't even a blip on his radar. You're just wasting your own energy and blowing my bandwidth for no good reason.  So screw off.

I skipped an update last week because there were no additions.  However, this week 2 new sites joined, bringing the total to 32.

The War On Guns once against generated the most average daily hits to the ring, with WOG and End the War On Freedom at a tie for the sites receiving the most average daily hits from the ring.

For the first time I actually had to delete a comment.  Some anonymous passerby condemned me as a "fake" because I never used an EBR to shoot at things that "shot back."  Apparently since the only living things I've ever shot were "defenseless herbivores," and I wasn't using an M-16, I'm not a real gun owner.

I think that kind of proves my point.

I was sure I'd be safe this month, since February is so short.  But the huge increase in traffic since last Sunday wiped me out.  This blog will be offline for a few days, and be back on March 1.

Statcounter recorded 990 total hits yesterday.

Eponym recorded 637 hits to the you-know-what post alone.

Eponym also recoded 432.2 megs of bandwidth.

Records, all.

I've been trying to change the blockquotes so they are more set off and distinct without being jarringly distracting.  I went for a very low-key dark-colored box and a different font (Times).

Does Times look okay, or would something like Courier work better?  I ask because Times always looks sort of squished together, to me.

I found this blog post about pretty blockquotes very useful, and it led me to this great CSS Tutorial.

Someone came to this blog after doing a search for "something halfway entertaining."

That's pretty funny.

I signed up for G00gl3 adsense, and I was sure this post would be about how they rejected me because of certain things I advocate.  But they didn't.  So...nevermind.

I'm going to be attempting to put everything back to the original settings and work my way out from there.

So just ignore everything here for a while.

UPDATE:  Okay, the html link button in the comments works now.  Trouble is, I still don't know exactly why it didn't work before.  It was apparently an accidental modification to the base template.  I had made some minor changes to it which I later commented out, and they're still commented out right now.  I think I must have accidentally hit a key somewhere and entered a typographical error of which I was unaware.  I either stuck in something that screwed up that button, or I deleted something that screwed up that button.

So give the comments a shot and see if the button still works by the time you read this (whoever you may be).

UPDATE 2:  Using IE, the built-in popup blocker blocked the url entry window that pops up when you click the button.  Any readers who use IE and want to use that html button in comments will have to take care of that on their end.

So it might look different for a while.

UPDATE:  I was trying to figure out why the html link button in the comments doesn't work.  It was suggested that one of my custom components was screwing it up, so I removed them all.  But that didn't fix it, so I put them all back.  So far, the cause of the problem is still a mystery.

The Free Wayne Webring is now up to 30 members, with one more in the wings until the code gets installed.

This past week also saw the activation of the ring's first international member:  Truth Versus Evil in Scotland.

The site generating the most average daily hits to the ring was The War On Guns.  The site receiving the most average daily hits from the ring was End the War On Freedom.

Home page for this shindig is here.

I will be showing up at some point, and I'm looking forward to it.

It starts on Fiesta Friday, which is a paid day off for me, as it is for many S.A.-area employees.

UPDATE:  The projected date has been moved down one week to May 4-6 because the original date conflicted with Fiesta.

...or does anyone else think those Snap pop-up preview boxes are completely unnecessary, superfluous, and annoying?

Just curious.

I have just finished composing and saving a series of posts for later this month and early next month.  I hope to be a little more active now.

I'm still working on a short story, but I had mis-read the instructions about it and I noticed that the deadline is the end of March instead of the end of February, as I at first thought.  This gives me a lot more breathing room so I should be able to do more blogging than in the last couple of weeks.

The Free Wayne Webring has increased by six new sites since last Saturday, bringing the total to 28.

The site generating the most hits for the ring was once again The War On Guns.  Two sites tied for receiving the most traffic from the ring:  The War On Guns and this site, Blogonomicon.