Caffeinated Dreams

So the reason Moid was loading so slowly wasn’t because of Moid itself, but also because of my site. For a long time now I’ve been wanting something to disallow image hotlinking. In the past I caught people using wallpapers as website backgrounds (they make shitty website backgrounds, please stop). Stopped that. Recently some of my wallpapers were hotlinked again, this time to a high traffic image board. They tried to be sneaky — linking them through a proxy site and then onto the main website.

Filenames are changed for the time being until I get something installed to stop all hotlinking. THIS COSTS MONEY PEOPLE. PLEASE STOP. KTHX.

The previous theme I was using, called snapshot, was beginning to bore me. All my layouts have also been very brightly colored, or even just whites and grays. So from one extreme to the other I went(!) and found this one. A modified k2 called Sca4red.2. Now I’m happy with the layout again. :)

Also updated to the latest version of Wordpress and k2. It was bugging the hell out of me–none of my admin pages were loading entirely. Until I disabled Counterize, THE most used plugin on this site, and it fixed itself… after I reinstalled/cleared the database/and so on. Ah well. Probably needed to be done anyway.

Akismet is my saviour. Caffeinated Dreams is just a blog and portal to my crap, only friends really bother reading or I use it to host projects. So I never worried about getting targeted for comment spam. Then out of who knows where I begin getting it.

For awhile it seemed managable, until I broke 20 spam messages a day, so earlier today I found Akismet and installed it. It does all the work for me, I checked it and within the past few hours it caught 10 spammy comments. Wonderful.

I found this theme and fell in love with it. Pop art, vintage art, retro art, etc have always been my favorite but never have I taken it to computer art and design. :) So I’m using this theme and going to modify it to my liking… I already liked the greens used so that’s probably gonna stay. I made a header image, but it isn’t fully complete and will probably be radically different soon, who knows.

Remember how I said I was sick of web design (at the moment)? Yeah, I do too. This is cheating though–using a pre-made layout. Leaving all the headaches gone and all I get to do is graphics. Yay.