Duvet-Dayz: Some Upgrades completed

We finally have completed the first part of our complete web site overhaul last night and can now start over again to post stories and news on interesting things.

There are still many glitches and issues e.g. with white spaces and differences between IE and Firefox or other web browsers but these will be gone once our new layout will be released within the next days. So far we have implemented the underlying “plumbing” and because of issues with some of the plug-ins we used in the past we were forced to touch every post we have written in the past two years.

Anyway we hope that the new layout and features that are now possible will compensate for the wait. We are currently also evaluating if we will make some of the new features - particularly the semantic web features in the pipeline - available as plug-ins for public use.

Many thanks for your patience and sorry for the delays. From today on we will do what we hope will let you all come back frequently to Duvet-Dayz.com - put up new stories and news.

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Duvet-Dayz: Upgrade of site

We are currently upgrading this site and it is taking longer than expected.
New posts will be back during the second half of this week.
Sorry for the delay…but that upgrade was overdue for more that a year and we unfortunately have to do most of it manually - meaning we have to touch each of [...]

Happy Holidays from Duvet-Dayz.com

We would like to thank all our readers for their support and their feedback.
Best wishes and safe, happy holidays!

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A new type of spam

Everybody who runs a web site or blog knows what I’m talking about - SPAM
To us it is a continuous phenomenon that people are clogging the web with nonsense like this.

Pharmaceuticals, enhancements of your body parts, people doing things in front of cams you name it…

But luckily there is help around and I’m sure almost anybody is using spam filters today. We for example receive an average of about 1,000 smd (spam messages per day) these days - our “record day” was beyond 10,000 - but hey it takes one click and they are gone.

But now there are some new types of messages coming around of which we would like to highlight two:

The first one (pictured below) uses a cop/paste legitimate text from documents or books to look like a normal comment. Well two things: First the text normally is not related to the post - bye-bye. Second, if you have a closer look you might realize that its just cut out from a document…

The second one is potentially more dangerous…

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Time changed to UTC

We are still working on revamping this site and the first visible step was changing our server from San Francisco time to UTC.

More to come soon…

Hello, we are back !

Hello again and we are back after more than 4 months browsing this planet.
We’ve been to the East, the South and to the West and the North - we have spend weeks with mother nature and also weeks in some of the most pulsing cities and places of this planet.
And we are back with [...]

The never ending spam tail

Been away for a few days and getting ready for a trip around the world. So nothing came up here the last days - besides that 15,000 spam messages arrived - thanks again to the enlargement branch and particularly the one page plus spammers. Nevertheless our spam filters continue to work great (only 6 messages [...]

Duvet-Dayz: Our Best of Lists

Over the last months we have created a serie of Best of list that turned out to be very popular with our readers. Below you find an overview and links to all the lists…

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More that 350.000 web sites (DreamHost) back online after almost 8 hours outage

Due to broken power cable the whole Dreamhost network was not reachable for more than 10 hours today. It just came back online. Not all the servers went down, but as DreamHost’s core routers and upstream providers are in that data center, there was no network to over 350,000 web sites during that time…

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Happy Valentine

Happy Valentine from the Duvet-Dayz team to all of you…

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