Quick News

Some quick news, because I’m too lazy to blog properly:

  • BellaBook passed 1000 downloads — since I started logging them — today. I started logging them at the end of May, that’s only a month and a bit!
  • I decided against releasing the tutorial on modifying BellaBook into a fanlisting script, because it ended up being quite complex. Will release a separate script and try to make a decision and stick to it for once in my life.
  • Pre-ordered Harvest Moon: Magical Melody today. Hopefully the gameplay is better than Harvest Moon: AWL but just as addictive.
  • I have forgotten 90% of the things I’ve said I’d do for people recently. If I ‘owe’ you something and haven’t got back to you yet, get in touch.
  • Shawna has sent me a ‘Site of the Moment’ award! Apparently my site is “actually readable”, heh. I’ll add it to my domain section this week.

I think that is all.

16 comments so far

  1. Jenny said:
    On 09 Jul at 9:42 pm

    Nerdy question: how do you log your downloads? I’m always concerned that my download counters are artificially high, from all the search engine spiders. I really only care to count actual people. (And with Yahoo’s spider downloading every page of my site 5 times a day — you would think their search would be better with such a hyperactive spider — I would guess half of my download counts can’t be human.) I recently stopped counting if the user agent contains G*, Y*, or M*, but I’m sure the counter still gets triggered by lots of bots. PS — Edited for the commenting blacklist (I think). Starred letters stand for the three big search engines.

  2. Amelie said:
    On 09 Jul at 9:52 pm

    You forgot to plug the BB fanlisting again! OUTRAGE!

  3. Chans said:
    On 09 Jul at 10:00 pm

    Congrats on passing the 1000 downloads with bellabook! That’s awesome.

  4. Bubs said:
    On 09 Jul at 10:56 pm

    Congrats on the popularity of BB! It’s a great script :)

  5. Meggan said:
    On 09 Jul at 11:21 pm

    Yay on BB passing 1000 downloads! Ummm… I don’t know about “owing” anything, but my email was down a few weeks ago right around the time we discussed your Javascript spam solution for Guestblocks, and I never ended up receiving an email from you. I don’t know if one never got sent, or if I just never received it due to the email outage and now look like an ass for not replying. No rush, just thought of it when you mentioned forgetting things. :D

  6. Lynn said:
    On 09 Jul at 11:45 pm

    You owe me $20 US. ;-)

  7. Aithnea said:
    On 10 Jul at 1:12 am

    Congrats on the 1000 downloads for BB and winning the Site of the Moment award.

  8. Tish said:
    On 10 Jul at 9:55 am

    Congratulations! I shall be integrating BellaBook with WordPress sometime soon :P Good job on the site award :)

  9. Linda Belle said:
    On 10 Jul at 11:09 am

    Mazel tov on the 1000+ downloads! That certainly is an achievement! And you seriously deserve Shawna’s award; can we say, “Jemjabella is kick ass” five times fast? C:

  10. Gemma said:
    On 10 Jul at 11:56 am

    A thousand downloads? Good grief. I really should get into this PHP thing :). Congratulations to you – that’s quite an achievement!

  11. Amelie said:
    On 10 Jul at 4:11 pm

    Psh, PHPAskIt got 1000+ downloads after a month and a half… Oh wait, same as you, heh. CG should really put the download counter back up, I’m nosey and want to see who’s downloaded my script…

  12. Emily said:
    On 10 Jul at 9:29 pm

    Congrats! The script certainly deserves to be successful. In reply to your comment on my guestbook, the captcha is a dream! It is so fantastic not to be constantly reuploading my entries file to override all the spam I was receiving. :)

  13. Alys said:
    On 11 Jul at 4:11 pm

    You owe me a cookie Jem, a chocolate chip one before you get any other ideas!

  14. Robbie said:
    On 12 Jul at 1:09 am

    It’s alright, I always forget what I promise to do for people. I’m like Dori from Finding Nemo.

  15. Jenny said:
    On 12 Jul at 2:41 am

    omg HM is SOOOOO addicting. its really too bad i fail very early in the game. i have the girl version for GBA. its haaaaaaaaaard. but good luck with your new one. lemme know how it is. i might want it.

  16. dennis said:
    On 13 Jul at 4:34 am

    wow..congratulations to your 1000 downloads..