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with increased traffic comes increased spam

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Due to an enormous increase in the number of spam comments, I just can’t spend hours looking for rare real comments scattered among the hundreds of free smileys and “impress your woman” ads that are blocked each day. I don’t think any legitimate posts have been filtered out so far, but if you’re a) […]

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site is crazy slow

April 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Hopefully, if you’re reading this, the site is back to normal and pages aren’t taking several minutes to load anymore. If by some chance you sat through the wait, thanks — your patience is formidable and very much appreciated.
I checked the site this afternoon and found it unbearably slow, and Bluehost, my hosting company, […]

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flickeringpictures leaps 5,725,792 spots in net rankings

April 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Quite the leap from a month ago, if I do say so myself. So what if most of the websites we passed are selling “all-natural male enhancements,” are run by SoCal punk garage bands, or look something like this (oh it burns)? Most of the sites ahead of us are probably just porn […]

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Tags: housekeeping · neato

new pages: site news, tech support and post ideas

March 17th, 2008 · No Comments

New pages for site news, technical support and suggested posts have just been posted. The permalinks are in the left sidebar, along with the photography and dispatches from India pages.
Please use the tech support page to report any problems you encounter on the site — anything from 404 errors to slow page loads to […]

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we’re number 11,810,854!

March 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

At least according to Alexa. A couple of weeks ago we didn’t even rank — I’m okay with baby steps.

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odd information of the day

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s something you didn’t need to know - the last ten Google search terms that led visitors to flickeringpictures.com:
15:28:15 - “united steel workers of montreal
14:51:53 - flickering pictures
13:03:41 - flickering pictures
12:16:19 - italy bans grabbing of genitals
11:58:57 - italy bans grabbing of genitals
11:15:42 - subprime primer stickmen
10:33:53 - Italian court bans crotch grabbing
10:30:31 - […]

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Tags: curio · housekeeping

cbc article links to flickeringpictures.com

February 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I know, I’m so easily amused. But I thought this was really cool.
Click here for the larger screenshot, or here for the CBC article. Here’s hoping the link stays up.

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Tags: housekeeping · media · neato