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Post by EXO on Feb 15, 2021 10:36:43 GMT 8
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW Sometimes, a feature on my website is so intertwined in multiple technologies, it gets beyond my pay grade to update multiple technologies just to update it. Such is the fate of the SLIDESHOW INDEX-"Picture Show" feature which is a part of the 503d PRCT Heritage Bn Archive Master Index. In its heyday, Picture Show was based on two technologies, FLASH by Adobe and PICASA by Google. Adobe declared Flash "End of Life" after December 31, 2020 and content using it was blocked beginning January 12, 2021. PICASA was a cross-platform image organizer and image viewer for organizing, editing and delivering digital photos, integrated with a now defunct photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named Lifescape in 2002. Google acquired it, and in due course decided to kill it because it detracted from their Google Photos. (That's the way railway barons work in a global technocracy. )They allowed Picasa to continue to work as it did on our individual platforms, but it no longer played to the web-based creation, organization or editing of albums. It became less useful over time, and eventually irrelevant. Considering that my basis for Picture Show was the creation and organization of albums, this was just another example of why Google felt it necessary to ditched their motto of "Do No Evil." I tried a rearguard action to keep Picture Show running, using a program called WowSlider. I did a bunch of pictureshows when I refurbished concretebattleship.org in around 2006. They worked fine. The content had an affinity for the sense of the website. I don't feel the same about the 503d PRCT Heritage Bn Archive Master Index. If I felt that the Master Index archive was useful and popular, I might have struggled with refurbishing Picture Show, but I have no evidence of either. If it ever was in the early days, that doesn't seem the same for me today. There are other, more important battles to fight. So this is to announce that I am no longer supporting Picture Show. One might appear now and again, I don't know, but as a stand-alone feature, it is now dead. The Last Picture Show is thus Ghosts of Corregidor, a series of images collected by Paul Turley from Japanese Bodies on Corregidor. |
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Post by EXO on Feb 18, 2021 9:17:02 GMT 8
 After the demise of SLIDESHOW, I have managed to get back on the first rung of the technology ladder again, creating a three-page "wow-slider" slideshow feature of images from THE ROCK REGIMENT IN THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES. The images are raw and unretouched, in low resolution. No sense in giving away the best images, because they are what's in the book. Link to the first feature page is HERE. The link to the book's PX PUBLICATIONS page is contained on the feature page. |
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Post by EXO on Feb 20, 2021 16:58:36 GMT 8
I spent a few hours housekeeping today on some areas of the Corregidor.Org Then and Now website. Places I hadn't visited for a long while, link pages, and the like. Checking on links in a few of the index and content pages (and deleting the dead ones) made me realize that websites have a finite lifespan. So too ours. I also started to clear away some of our own dead articles. It made me realize that the reasons I created visual candy content don't exist any more. In 2001, the reality was that there just weren't all that many photos of Corregidor available, and articles were few and far between. Along came Google, and the world, not just the internet world, changed. If someone wants photos of Corregidor, they do an image search. So the purpose of many articles just doesn't exist any more. So I have started deleting a bunch. Others, which the demise of FLASH has killed, are being deleted. A few I may replace, but mostly not, because slideshows just aren't worth the time and cost any more. Besides, I don't think they are as useful as they used to be. Maybe they were NEVER as useful as I'd thought. These ruminations don't apply to this Forum, of course. It has a different purpose, a different lifestyle, and thanks to our regular contributors, it manages to stay relevant (I think!). |
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Post by EXO on Mar 9, 2021 14:19:32 GMT 8
Over the years, we have acquired hundreds of members. Currently, 373. Great! But how active are they? The reality is that very few of them have ever bothered to make their first post. I have decided that we are better off without the bloat, and having a smaller, more active membership, than kidding ourselves about "members" who won't even contribute a post. If someone joins us, and can't manage to make a post in their first six months, then what good are they?
So they're fired!
There are a few non-posters personally known to me, or who have sent me personal messages for re-posting (They are technically challenged.) They're fine.
-XO-
PS: Fifty members deleted, we are now 323.
PPS: This doesn't apply to our Facebook Pages.
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Post by Registrar on Mar 11, 2021 10:32:11 GMT 8
Some time ago, in 2008 I recall, some friends of mine, seeing what I had done with Corregidor Proboards, asked me to create a board for their motorcycle club. They asked me to make a few design suggestions and a few posts, as well. I did. Hidden in a bunch of images of early Honda 750's (still my favorite bike) are other great designs ( Honda Motosport 250), and even a page of fake Harley Davidson patriotic pin-ups I tried to get the site "on the road". But by 2011, the board had run its course. It never got to that "critical mass" - the point at which a sufficient number of members exists so that the rate of use becomes self-sustaining and creates further growth. So, I ceased operating it for them. Dead end. I didn't discontinue it, as I felt that would have been churlish. Besides, I felt that it was a social curiosity, and I could look at a collection of my favorite motorcycle photos. I haven't visited it a for a while, but the other night I was on Netflix and got caught in a series called "Abandoned". That reminded me of the other 'abandonments' I have left behind as the years passed. What's the relevance to Corregidor Proboards? Well, we haven't reached the point in time that we drop below the critical mass threshold, though I feel it is coming. I wonder whether we are achieving the purpose for which it was started? Who are the active new members? Where, or rather, who is the new "spark plug" to re-enliven our Forum? |
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Post by EXO on Mar 13, 2021 15:26:36 GMT 8
 Bless 'em All (the website version) remains as it was, I just don't want folk thinking it is being regularly maintained. Unlike every other thing in this world at present, this decision has nothing to do with COVID/Wuhan Flu. |
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Post by EXO on May 8, 2021 9:57:01 GMT 8
Thank-you to corregidor.org's
Automatic renewal of corregidor.org succeeded
Dear AWS customer,
We automatically renewed registration for the corregidor.org domain because the domain was configured to renew automatically. corregidor.org will now expire on 2022-06-11.
You can view the current settings at .......
Regards,
Amazon Route 53
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Post by EXO on Jan 7, 2022 6:31:22 GMT 8
WEBSITE MATTERS
The aggregated data delivery from the Corregidor Historic Society Websites during the month of December was 25.42 Gigabytes. This was down 3% from the previous month.
The top traffic locations were
• United States: 328,372
• United Kingdom: 33,904
• Philippines: 28,121
• Singapore: 24,040
• Other: 134,862
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Post by EXO on Mar 9, 2022 7:32:03 GMT 8
UPDATE ON WEBSITE DISTRIBUTION During February 2022, the web traffic across the seven sites of Corregidor.Org / Corregidor Historic Society has fallen by 7%. Whether this is the result of the short month, I can't say as I don't have access to the day count. Top traffic locations, which can be compared apples to apples with January, are as follows: • United States: 291,345 • Philippines: 48,162 • United Kingdom: 32,673 • Singapore: 16,420 • Other: 86,488 Firewall events for the same period are -51%, • Netherlands: 134 • United States: 97 • Russia: 76 |
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Post by EXO on May 6, 2022 8:24:53 GMT 8
 CLOUDFLARE provides our web security encryption and reliability features. It makes our website https:// which is a security upgrade from the earlier http:// address. The issue is that HTTP (note: no "s" on the end) data is not encrypted, and it can be intercepted by third parties to gather data being passed between the two systems. This can be addressed by using a secure version called HTTPS, where the "S" stands for secure. This involves the use of an SSL certificate -- "SSL" stands for secure sockets layer -- which creates a secure encrypted connection between the web server and the web browser. Without HTTPS, any data passed is insecure. This is especially important for sites where sensitive data is passed across the connection, such as ecommerce sites that accept online card payments, or login areas that require users to enter their credentials. (We don't. It has been my policy from the beginning not to embed cookies which gather your details.)
Google have been at pains to emphasize that sites without SSL certification will be reduced in search results. I am not a search-ranking hound, but I don't want my websites to be relegated to Z-Division with 'old school' websites that do not carry SSL Certification. I have noticed recently that my iPad browser will not allow me access to sites which do not have SSL Certification, citing "Security Issues."
All signals involving our websites are routed through a Cloudflare server at some point in the delivery process, and as a consequence, they provide us with a snapshot of how our corregidor.org websites are delivering signal to our readers.
MAR 2024 - 23.96 GB - an 11% increase in traffic, with a 62% increase in firewall mitigated events.
FEB 2024 -25.15 GB - up 9% traffic since January 2024 - 282 firewall mitigated events, Russia (123), US (65) & Germany (32).
JAN 2024 - 20.99 GB - 29% up from the previous month - 312 firewall events mitigated, mostly from Russia.
DEC 2023 - 14.69 GB - a significant drop of traffic - 26%.
NOV 2023 - 20.4 GB - 22% up traffic since October - traffic up but participation of members is down.
SEP 2023 - 22.2 GB - they say it's 17% up since august, but their math is dubious - it looks down to me. 634 firewall events.
AUG 2023 - 23.14 GB - insignificant change in comparison with the previous month.
JUL 2023 - 23.6 GB - down 2% traffic since June
MAY 2023 - 22.91 GB - up 22% since April
APR 2023 - 16.85 GB - down by 21% since March 2023. Firewall events are up 76%.
MAR 2023 - 19.34 GB - down slightly; 620 firewall "events". 317 from the US, 179 from Russia.
FEB 2023 - 20.69 GB - traffic is down by 5% - US traffic is eight times that of the Philippines
JAN 2023 - 23.39 GB - up by 3% - with 524 Firewall mitigation events
NOV 2022 - 20.94 GB
OCT 2022 - 20.01 GB - down 7.3% since September
JUL 2022 - 21.03 GB - up 10.7% since June
MAY 2022 - 19.09 GB - down 11.4% since April
FEB 2022 - 22.25 GB
DEC 2021 - 24.5 GB
NOV 2021 - 21.58 GB
OCT 2021 - 18.74 GB
SEP 2021 - 23.81 GB
AUG 2021 - 22.99 GB
JUL 2021 - 20.15 GB
MAY 2021 - 21.63 GB
APR 2021- 23.69 GB
MAR 2021 - 27.92 GB
FEB 2022 - 26.6 GB
DEC 2021 - 28.42 GB
NOV 2021 - 15.79 GB
OCT 2021 - 9.48 GB (part month only)
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