Hey, I just noticed we didn’t go offline today. Should I poke Murphy again and hope it was the effect of transferring our 100K+/day RSS feeds to Feedburner? (Oops, I guess I just did.)

Don’t hurt me too much, Murphy, but cutting out all that bandwidth and server overhead has to make a difference. The hamsters seem happier, and that, after all, is the only thing I really care about. You’re an animal lover, aren’t you?

Some of the less important flat file-based modules (like the referrers page and its associated blacklist of spam referrers, and the rotating front page titles) have now also been refactored to use MySQL.

We’re approaching the goal of total separation between display and data layers.

On a less geeky subject, I’ve been receiving occasional emails from readers concerned that LGF may have been hacked, because they see a weird message appearing in their browser window’s title bar.

I do appreciate the concern, and we should always remain vigilant, but those weird messages are actually intentional. They’re chosen randomly each time the page loads, from a pool of weird one-liners that may or may not make any sense.

I know, it’s weird. What can I tell you.