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Visitors to The Blackboard

25 February, 2010 (09:08) | Random

In comments, visitors have been wondered how many Australians visit the Blackboard. I answered pointing to Alexa.com (which is quite approximate.) Then someone wanted to know how many Swiss visit? I suspect many regular readers are little curious. I’ll show you my google analytics counts.
Google analytics tracks when the script [...]

Suggest Links

15 July, 2009 (09:07) | Data Comparisons

I feel the need to create a good links page to help people find “things”. Could people suggest their favorite climate change links. Here are some example categories:

Monthly Surface Temperatures: NOAA, Hadley, GISS, RSS, UAH.
Maps: GISS Surface Temp Maps.
Sea Ice: Daily Arctic Sea Ice Extent Map.
Sea Surface Levels.
Ocean Heat Content. Argos Buoys
Model Data: [...]

Feature Alert: Robo-Translations

3 July, 2009 (09:17) | Wordpress Plugins

Have any of you noticed the nifty “robo-translation” feature plugin I installed several weeks ago? I thought it would be fun to give the Global Translator Plugin a whirl. The plugin lets me place an icon with loads of little flags somewhere on my blog; people can click and the page is [...]

Hacking is non-partisan.

26 June, 2009 (08:05) | Data Comparisons

In late May, I mentioned blog had been the victim of a script injection attack which I cleared up. Tetris had noticed that the WUWT and CA had been attacked during the year and thought the attacks might be politically motivated. I doubted that theory. The reason tetris notices sites he visits [...]

Roger Pielke Jr: Prometheus Unbound

15 June, 2009 (07:02) | Data Comparisons

Roger Pielke Jr. announced that the blog, Prometheus, will be retired. He will now be blogging at http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/.

Script Injection Attack

29 May, 2009 (07:14) | Wordpress Plugins

Update: I cleaned this up. There should be no malware threat.
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I was hacked!
Thank you Stuart and Jonathan for alerting me that their browsers warned them that my site hosted malware. Stuart was the first to alert me and Jonathan gave me the tip that the problem was somethign to do with “odmarco.com”. I [...]

Blog may be blocked?

26 May, 2009 (10:11) | Data Comparisons

A reader reported that my site and Air Vent are blocked at his workplace. Other climate blogs he sometimes visits are not. Evidently, his work place evidently uses Websense.
We don’t know the precise reason the blog is blocked, but I consider it a problem if some people are blocked for no [...]

SEO Robo-post Puzzles VC Author.

20 May, 2009 (16:07) | Commercial

David Post of the The Volokh Conspiracy is puzzled. He writes:
Take a look at this webpage, purporting to report on a posting of mine here on the VC. Here’s how it starts:”
David Post at the Volokh Conspiracy writes: Code’s a exceptionally momentous promulgate, in my purpose (and, I about, objectively speaking, in the purpose [...]

Blog issues

12 May, 2009 (11:54) | Data Comparisons

The blog has been erratic today. If you can post comments, great! I’d advise saving before posting though. I’ve submitted a support ticket.
Support ticket answered:
Hi Lucia,
I am very sorry for the troubles you have been experiencing, I took a
look at your account and I see that you were moved recently to a [...]

Testing TweetSuite

26 March, 2009 (09:55) | Data Comparisons

I’ve decided to twitter my posts. I’m currently testing Tweetsuite a plugin that does a lot of nifty Twitter – related things. Currently,that plugin is:

Posting my three most recent “tweets” in my sidebar.
Supposedly, sending a tweet announcing my posts to twitter. (This post will test that functionality.)
Letting my readers click buttons in [...]