Adblock ate my website!

So, lots of bloggers out there have been hurt by adblock. What do we do about it? Typically we find ourselves financially starved, frustrated, and eventually we give up.  OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING, HOW CAN I PAY MY HOSTING BILL WAAAH?

Well guess what, I'm not going to give up just quite that easily. *Rocky montage*

Steam key give-a-way #1

At techderp.net, there is going to be a raffle. Whichever of the following has the most followers in 2 weeks, will have 2 lucky users.


Techderp.net google+ page, techderp.net email subscribers,@techderp on twitter, techderp.tumblr.com, or facebook.com/techderp

One winning my favorite 2d game of all time(this will remain a mystery for the moment), and one winning Red Orchestra 1 and 2, both activated on steam, randomly chosen.

Random chosen will be based off of dice generators. No favoritism.

Anti botnet wordpress security practices

So, you got hit by the wordpress attack yesterday. I did, you did. We all did.

Freaked out yet? It was a huge botnet trying to crack your password

Anyone who doesn't know, a botnet is a large number (usually over 100,000) of computers all infected by some form of an attack, that can be remote controlled. The botnet yesterday was around 100,000.

Things you can do to protect yourself against it.

New shop!

So, you may have been wondering why there is a shop button on my site now. It links to http://shop.techderp.net

Css Errors

[caption id="attachment_380" align="aligncenter" width="480"] From Family Guy[/caption]

These are my thoughts on CSS.
For those who don't know, CSS on Wikipedia, or W3 Schools

Making Wordpress Fast, Quickly

So, you decided to take the plunge and made a Wordpress site, then you loaded it up, and were like... holy crap this thing is slow! Y u no wordpress fast? MAKE IT FASTER RIGHT NOW!

InMotionHosting: A review for those who don't INTERNETZ

This Wordpress blog is hosted by InMotionHosting, So, when I switched from blogger to word press (I switched back later)(which is why my posts older than this have some derps), I did some investigation. Wordpress.com seemed ok, but the price on damn near everything was way too expensive. Wordpress.org is nice, but you have to host your own page.

I decided to take the learning approach and purchased a shared host. I searched the internets, blog after blog, forum after forum. Some people say some say hostgator, some say bluehost , some say some other random esortic smalltime hosts.

Blogging wizardry

So I had an idea for the most convoluted blog setup ever.

I like blogger, it's a nice platform, has google+ integration, is easily customizable, etc.

I dislike tumblr, but there is a massive storm of traffic there.

So here's the idea.

An introduction

I’ve never really blogged before, hell(for the halibut? #fishpuns) I’ve never really wrote anything besides a gruelingly long Facebook \ Google+ post, had to write a few essays here or there, but they were always drab, I always over-focused on perfection, and they were flat out boring, in fact this run on sentence itself is a protest against this continuing.

Yep, I said it, I was a boring writer most of my life, for the little that I did.

Yet here I am.