Blog, Take 5
June 17th, 2009
I think this is the fifth blog I’ve had… and maybe the tenth post? Anyway, I set this one up and went to the effort to tweak a theme to fit my site for a reason, and I intend to recall what that reason was.
It’s here; maybe I’ll write something eventually.
Nice theme!
@Jon
Well thanks… I just took the nice theme by mg12 and messed it up a bit to use my header and background. :P
How’d you make your way here? Yours is the site I went to for a demo of the DreamHost API… happen to store my info? ;)
Hello, Patrick. o.o I’m Steven. I like your interests and applications. I came here out of curiosity, I was thinking that robots.txt is probably exploitable. x: I mean, people put there site-maps and information they don’t want robots to see(often things they don’t want people to see). ^.~
Maybe you should use .htaccess to deny access to bots with bad user agents, rather than malicious users being directed towards it.
asciigraph was impressive. Mainly because I have trouble with mathematical functions and their purpose. (things like sin, and cos… I just have trouble with them, and theyre fundamental in programming 3d applications! T_T
@Steven Horton
I was baffled about the robots.txt thing, since I do not recall ever adding a robots entry on my site, but checked my source and sure enough it’s there. I then realized it’s just a default in WordPress installations apparently, so it’s just this main page. The rest of the site doesn’t have any robots directives.
Yeah I started asciigraph a while back just as a proof of concept sort of thing since I didn’t feel like working with a graphics library. The wall I ran into was when I realized I would have to create an NFA to parse an algebraic string… Of course I didn’t know it was an NFA at the time but it was daunting enough for me that I moved on. :P
Nice theme! yeah
Oh lol, I use WordPress too.
And sure enough, I look, and there’s a robots.txt, but it doesn’t have the disallows yours has… It just has a sitemap. Was there a setting you had to add non-wordpress files to the robots.txt?