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July, 2003

• Crayola History Updated. 2003-07-07 8:12 PM.
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  The Crayola Clan history has recently been updated. 17 words.

August, 2005

• Categories Removed. 2005-08-14 1:33 AM.
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  Since I basically never write anything in the Site News or Crayola categories, I pulled them down. 36 words.

September, 2005

• Web Overhaul. 2005-09-14 12:57 AM.
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  Remember a while back when I said I wanted to do a ground-up rewrite of my website? Well, it’s underway! Actually, it’s been underway for about a month, but it’s only just now starting to look like a working web site. 167 words.
• Launch Day. 2005-09-25 2:59 PM.
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  Today I am officially launching the new site. 37 words.

January, 2006

• Mission Statement. 2006-01-20 1:00 AM.
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  I’m starting this blog as a response to Greg Krehbiel’s Crowhill Weblog. Greg Krehbiel is a conservative Roman Catholic advocate. This by itself wouldn’t be enough for me to start a blog, but unfortunately, the Crowhill Weblog ranks fairly high in a Google search for “Krehbiel,” so anyone searching for information about the Krehbiel family name would find Greg Krehbiel and his blog to be one of the first ambassadors of the surname. 238 words.
• New Blog. 2006-01-20 4:58 PM.
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  If you’re looking for more witty and insightful responses to the Crowhill Weblog, you’ll have to go to The Krehbiel Strikes Back. I started that blog for the specific purpose of sniping at The Pope. (I won’t call him Pope Narcissus there, though, because that wouldn’t be polite.) Tell all your friends! 76 words.

February, 2006

• “Gobbley” Quotes. 2006-02-25 12:50 AM.
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  I just reconfigured the blog to use the ISO-8859-1 charset so those silly “smart” quotes work right. I’m always having to change them back to “dumb” quotes and half the time I forget when pasting text so weird gobbley characters get into my writing. It’s a real pain. 68 words.
• Revised Mission Statement (2006.02.24). 2006-02-25 2:08 AM.
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  I originally started this blog as a response to Greg Krehbiel’s Crowhill Weblog. GK is a conservative Roman Catholic. That by itself wouldn’t be enough for me to start a public blog, but the Crowhill Weblog ranks fairly high in a Google search for “Krehbiel,” so anyone searching for information about the Krehbiel family name would find Greg Krehbiel and his blog to be one of the first ambassadors of the surname. 373 words.
• Comment-Spam Policy. 2006-02-27 10:42 PM.
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  I deleted an obvious spam comment today. Oddly enough, it linked to what appeared to be a free fundamentalist Christian book. I wonder if Jesus would consider spam an appropriate evangelical tool? 307 words.

April, 2006

• Back In A Bit. 2006-04-16 4:53 PM.
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  Mrs. Krehbiel and I are heading out for a much-needed vacation this week, so you’ll have to fend off Iranian Appeasement and the persuasive but not entirely factual writings of georgia10 and Cenk Uygur without my help for a little while. 41 words.

July, 2006

• Old News Closed. 2006-07-14 6:03 PM.
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  I’m no longer adding to the “Old News” category. 35 words.

August, 2006

• A Pause To Scold Blogspot. 2006-08-31 6:23 PM.
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  On the off chance anyone is reading this from a Blogger or Feedburner RSS feed, you might be wondering about the seemingly random order of posts. For example, this post that I wrote first thing Monday morning would have just shown up in the RSS feed today (Thursday). The reason? 123 words.

September, 2006

• New Styles. 2006-09-21 12:19 AM.
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  You’ve probably noticed that I’ve given the web site yet another facelift today. My goal was to clean up the style sheet and get rid of a lot of tables. I’m still aiming for a “clean and simple” look – the antithesis of what most modern web pages look like. 66 words.

January, 2007

• Layout Changes Ahead. 2007-01-04 1:41 AM.
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  Administrative Note: I am currently playing with new Blogger layout templates so the appearance of the blog will undoubtedly change randomly and without warning. Hopefully I won’t destroy any of the content in the process. 52 words.
• A Small Clarification. 2007-01-10 6:58 PM.
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  I just noticed that I had written yesterday, “Religion is just a hook used to recruit people who would otherwise be common criminals.” I didn’t mean to say religious people are common criminals, obviously. :) I meant that common criminals can be drawn into terrorist groups through the use of, say, radical Islam. 70 words.
• uvBlog. 2007-01-19 2:28 PM.
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  I’ve started working on a more streamlined PHP blogging platform, which I’m creatively dubbing “uvBlog.” You might be wondering why I don’t just get one of the millions of free, open source blog platforms out there. It’s mainly because I’m really, really picky, and frankly it’s more fun and instructional to develop my own. Also I don’t want to lose any of my content. 355 words.

March, 2007

• uvBlog March Update. 2007-03-13 11:01 PM.
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  I thought it would be good to sit down and evaluate where I am with uvBlog in comparison to my stated goals. Points in italics below were my original goals. 331 words.
• Light Blogging. 2007-03-23 12:00 AM.
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  I apologize for the paucity of blogging from me lately. Recently expanded duties at work has left me with precious little time to read the news during the day, let alone comment on it. I’ve got a huge backlog of topics I want to write about, but I’m having a hard time finding the energy to sit down at home during the evenings and write about them. 84 words.
• Blog Test Weekend. 2007-03-24 4:18 PM.
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  I am conducting a test this weekend. I’m replacing the old uvPortal software with the new uvBlog software to see what happens. Mainly I am testing to see if I can divert traffic that used to go to the portal to the new site. 68 words.
• Blog Test Weekend Results. 2007-03-26 2:01 AM.
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  As of 10:00 PM on Sunday, I’ve received 2,286 hits on the new blog from Yahoo’s and Google’s search engines. Kind of amazing that my little ol’ domain gets that much traffic. 65 words.

April, 2007

• Site Unblocked. 2007-04-17 3:36 PM.
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  Oops. I was trying to block a spammer IP but due to a bug, nobody was able to access the site for the last few days. I should probably test things now and then. 38 words.

May, 2007

• Hax0rs Sighted. 2007-05-06 3:20 PM.
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  Wow, I should check my logs more often. 25 words.
• More On The Hax0r. 2007-05-07 10:19 PM.
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  A quick Googling of some of the usernames that the would-be hax0r bot is attempting to login with – Ganjaboy, Ganry, and Wolf – suggests that I am not the first site to be hit by this particular bot. It has left its calling card (ie. spam) on bazillions of bulletin boards around the Internet. 55 words.
• CAPTCHA Enabled. 2007-05-31 1:07 PM.
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  I’m sorry to say that I just turned on Blogspot’s “word verification” for comments. 33 words.

June, 2007

• Name Change. 2007-06-28 7:07 PM.
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  I’m officially changing the name of this blog to “Krehbiel Commentary.” I’ve long disliked “Krehbiel Strikes Back” because 1) I’ve been trying to evolve away from needless sniping, and 2) it was pretty nerdy-sounding. 34 words.

July, 2007

• Aggravator Exposed. 2007-07-11 2:26 AM.
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  I was surprised to discover this evening that Cobalt6 has a link to my “UvAggravator” on their front page. I guess they got it from a referrer link. Anyway, it’s a feed aggregator I’ve been working on which currently collects some 150+ feeds from the Virginia blogosphere. 112 words.
• Shameless BlogNark Plug. 2007-07-11 10:37 PM.
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  I just added two more posts to my new pet blogging project “Virginia BlogNark.” One examines spin from SWAC Girl, and the other examines rumors from The Conservative VOICE. 29 words.
• New on BlogNark. 2007-07-17 12:51 AM.
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  I added a new post to BlogNark tonight about GoodbyeKen’s fictitious Centreville bomber (where I lived as a kid, coincidentally). I’ve also added several new candidates and endorsements, most puzzling of which is Not Larry Sabato endorsing Hillary Clinton for president. (Btw, an NLS commenter was asking Ben for a list of Virginia endorsements – I gots all yer dataz at BlogNark, dude.) You can now subscribe to an RSS feed of new endorsements as I find them, and I’ve started a del.icio.us feed of “Nark-worthy” posts I encounter in the Virginia blogosphere (that is, posts that scream out for a closer examination of spin and misinformation). 120 words.
• de.icio.us links added. 2007-07-18 1:47 AM.
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  I’ve just added my del.icio.us links to the left sidebar. Yes, believe it or not, I’m such an Internet dinosaur that I’ve only just signed up for del.icio.us this past week, even though it’s been around since the ancient days of 2003. (But hey, I know people that still don’t turn to Google first thing… go figure.) Anyway, if you’ve ever wondered about the fascinating diversity of subjects I read about on the Internet, now you’ll be able to see it firsthand. 82 words.
• Cosmetic Changes. 2007-07-24 10:45 PM.
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  I’ve created this feed to note changes in the aggregator. You’ve probably noticed the cosmetic changes (the reflective Web 2.0-ey logo, the angry red-faced dude I got from Microsoft clipart, the new fonts, etc.). Behind the scenes, I’ve made more attempts to handle ancient, broken HTML in feeds. 86 words.
• Harvester Running Again. 2007-07-27 8:50 PM.
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  For the two people who might be affected by this, the harvester was down most of the day today. 22 words.

August, 2007

• Information Overload. 2007-08-07 8:57 PM.
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  I’m not really dead, but I’ve been suffering from information overload, so I reduced my news intake for a little while. This past weekend, in fact, I didn’t watch any news or read any blogs. It was surprisingly refreshing. 104 words.
• Harvester Timeouts. 2007-08-30 11:34 PM.
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  The harvester has been “sticking” lately; ie. it would get stuck indefinitely on a particular feed, resulting in long periods without any aggregator updates, which has been annoying me because I can’t unstick it until I get home. Anyway I believe I’ve fixed this with some very aggressive timeout values. 59 words.

September, 2007

• Harvester Fetching Revised. 2007-09-02 2:41 PM.
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  Fyi, I got a complaint about the UvHarvester fetch frequency last week so I’ve revised it (UvHarvester is the program that collects feed data for the aggregator). Previously it visited each feed once an hour, but now it derives how often to check a feed from the frequency of posts on the feed. So, for example, a feed that gets updated on average once a day will now get 4 visits a day. 132 words.

October, 2007

• Computer Upgrades. 2007-10-21 9:06 PM.
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  Parts for my new computer came in last Monday (the 8th). I had a micro ATX case sitting around from a year ago which I was going to put my motherboard in (because I wanted front USB connectors, which my current case doesn’t have), but it turned out my current motherboard wouldn’t fit. So to avoid wasting the case, I was finally forced to buy a new motherboard. 180 words.

December, 2007

• Welcome to blogNark. 2007-12-20 11:17 PM.
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  Welcome to a new blog striving for non-partisan fact-checking of the Virginia political blogosphere. 14 words.
• Wiki Changes. 2007-12-28 2:43 AM.
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  I made a few changes to the wiki at http://www.crayolaclan.com. Mainly just added some of the newer games to the list. 21 words.

January, 2008

• RSS Feed Fixed. 2008-01-04 10:05 PM.
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  Oops.. I discovered my RSS feeds weren’t showing new posts. 29 words.
• Blog Designs. 2008-01-26 8:42 PM.
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  I’m looking for a new web design for my page. I’d like to make a non-scrolling front page with “about” information, which in turn links to the various categories of blogs. I also want to try to seperate the blogs from each other. 71 words.
• New Design Online. 2008-01-28 1:57 AM.
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  New blog design is online. 41 words.

February, 2008

• Times Are Off Again. 2008-02-01 1:36 AM.
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  The times are wrong on all the posts again. I feel like I’ve fixed this problem dozens of times over the lifespan of this blog. I have no idea why it keeps breaking. 76 words.
• Twiceler. 2008-02-08 1:28 AM.
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  Don’t know if anyone else is experiencing this, but my site has been hammered over the last week by this Twiceler robot: “Mozilla/5.0 (Twiceler-0.9 http://www.cuill.com/twiceler/robot.html)". Easily 15 times as many hits as from Googlebot. I guess they are trying to destroy whatever semblence of bandwidth is left on the Internet. 64 words.
• Turned Off Daily Links. 2008-02-17 9:12 PM.
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  I turned off the daily Del.icio.us link posts. 28 words.

July, 2008

• New Design Online. 2008-07-06 2:23 AM.
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  I’ve just updated the “skin” for Krehbiel’s Korner. As usual, I got completely sick of the old one and needed to make a change before I became physically ill. I admit that the design is heavily influenced by Drupal.org, which I think is one of the better minimalist web designs I’ve seen recently. 77 words.

September, 2008

• New Comment System. 2008-09-09 1:17 AM.
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  I updated the commenting functionality on my blog for no particular reason. 47 words.
• Sorry IE7 Users. 2008-09-26 11:01 PM.
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  By the way I’d like to apologize to anyone who has viewed my site recently with Internet Explorer 7. Sometimes it rendered very badly, randomly writing text all over the place, shifting boxes around and generally looking ugly (see below). It had something to do with an overflow:hidden CSS attribute in the rounded boxes, which apparently is not well liked by Internet Explorer. 83 words.

March, 2009

• New Web Site Live. 2009-03-22 2:44 AM.
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  The new web site is live. Old links should still continue to work, but the preferred site link is http://thomaskrehbiel.com or http://thomaskrehbiel.com/blog if you want to go straight to the blog. Let me know if you have any problems. 39 words.

April, 2009

• Planning a Move to Hostgator. 2009-04-07 12:40 AM.
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  I think I’m going to start working on migrating my home page to Hostgator.com. It’s quite a lot faster in terms of both latency and generating PHP pages. Omnis.com has been a great host for lo these many years but I’m getting weary of dealing with their general sluggishness. 64 words.

May, 2009

• BasicState Uptime Graphs. 2009-05-10 12:09 AM.
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  The following graphs show why I need to move my home page to another web host. 81 words.
• Moving In Progress. 2009-05-21 9:04 PM.
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  Tonight I hope to be moving the site to a new web host. 42 words.
• Moving Complete. 2009-05-22 12:29 AM.
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  The switchover is complete. 52 words.
• Importing Twitter Posts Soon. 2009-05-27 1:46 AM.
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  I’m working on some updates to the home page. In the process I’m going to import all of my Twitter posts, so at some point in the near future you’ll see a blitz of new messages appear on the page and in the feed. 94 words.

June, 2009

• Site Update 2.1.90612. 2009-06-13 2:57 AM.
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  Published an update to the blog software which adds a blacklist table to ban IPs. 38 words.
• uvBlog 2.1.90615. 2009-06-16 2:09 AM.
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  Published a minor update tonight which cleans up some cosmetic problems in the RSS feeds. 45 words.
• uvBlog 2.1.90621. 2009-06-22 2:46 AM.
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  Published a new version tonight with mainly internal changes. 36 words.

July, 2009

• uvBlog 2.1.90704. 2009-07-04 10:55 PM.
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  Published a new version today with one experimental new feature: Twitter integration via. OAuth 1.0a. This allows the site to access Twitter account data without ever needing to know Twitter credentials. 59 words.
• uvBlog 2.1.90712 – Now with OpenID. 2009-07-12 10:02 PM.
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  Published a new version of uvBlog that includes experimental OpenID support. You can now register and login with an OpenID, and attach as many OpenIDs to your account as you want. I used the Zend Framework to implement it, which turned out to be relatively straightforward (once you figure out the necessary files to include). 65 words.
• About. 2009-07-24 1:54 AM.
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  […] Krehbiel’s Korner is the official home page of Thomas Krehbiel. Accept no substitutes. 282 words.
• uvBlog 2.1.90725. 2009-07-26 12:46 AM.
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  I know this will disappoint the brute force attackers and the hordes of people clamoring to register on my site, but I’ve disabled user registration for a bit until I finalize the security model I want to use. 75 words.

October, 2011

• Code Update!. 2011-10-17 11:54 PM.
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  At long last, I fixed a little problem where people could view private posts if they happened to know the URL. 34 words.

August, 2024

• Recent Blog Updates. 2024-08-07 11:54 AM.
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  An impending tropical storm, now uploading Elden Ring DLC videos, some small updates to the blog, time blindness, and Blaugust controversy?!? 974 words.