Today I noticed that irssi was displaying a spike in network activity randomly. Wondering who it could be that was hammering my little section of the internet, I checked the lighttpd logs only to find out that the Googlebot had found my test spider trap! A bit more digging and it looks like it has been accessed over 35,000 times by Googlebot alone and is featured on over 40 pages of Google search results for listings from my site.

I guess it's about that time to set up a robots.txt :)

(The spider trap is located at http://lfowles.org/loop.py ... don't worry, it's safe to a normal browser ;) )

It's finally the start of Summer of Code (yeah, I'm a few days late to it, but I have another job as well!)

On this successful Wednesday I was able to get a base gozerbot up and running without any unneeded plugins, thanks to the help of dunk_, the creator of gozerbot.

Last night NanoBlogger was causing me frustration to no end as I searched for a commenting system to add to it. Nbcom wasn't working (at this point I chalk it up to user stupidity. JS-Kit wanted me to store comments on their server (although it did look mighty fine :( ), which just didn't go over well with me. So I was browsing other NanoBlogger blogs and stumbled across this one, which had just the comment system I wanted. After some diddling about with Pollxn, I wished that blogger had posted his own experiences, but he didn't, so I might as well!

1. To get Pollxn to work nicely, you need to install to your main blog directory (/var/www/blog/ in my case) and then run nb --configure.
2. In the conf you need to set BLOG_URL_ACTION="pollxn.pl?storypath=" (we'll add the rest of the URL in the templates.)
3. Direct yourself to the templates directory and bring $EDITOR with entry.htm and permalink_entry.htm
4. Doing this part from memory, but starting from the
   and ending at the -->, replace that section with this line: | <a href="\${BASE_URL}\$BLOG_URL_ACTION\`echo $NB_EntryPermalink | tail -c 24`">template_cmtlink</a> This will let pollxn.cgi get the actual filename, since $permalink_file doesn't seem to work.
5. In pollxn.cgi, set $datadir to be the data directory ( /var/www/blog/data in my case)

Looks like I got into the Google Summer of Code with my application to work on an IRC bot for the Software Freedom Conservancy