Thanks to the latest update of Hybrid, the theme engine I was using here at Sick Crimes, my comments and a couple of other plugins weren’t working properly. In order to get them working I’ve had to change to one of the basic WP themes.
No idea when or if I will get it fixed. I am too busy with work and other stuff right now. You’ll know when I do…
As usual I may or may not add new posts as time permits but I did want to update everyone to let you know I have disabled trackbacks from other blogs/websites. The spam is just getting to be too much.
Sorry about the extended amount of downtime. My account was suspended due to CPU usage or some crap. I’ve disabled most of the plugins and extra stuff. Still very busy at work and don’t know when I will be back.
A very Happy New Year from the staff at Shadowscope’s Sick Crimes. Here’s to hoping your’s will be relatively crime free and you just get your fix here!
Now that I am back to writing on a semi-regular basis I hope to make a few changes during the coming year. I’ve recently disabled several of the plugins on the site since it seemed to really be causing a drag on things. I don’t know about anyone else but it seems to be loading very slowly for me since I started visiting the site again. Also the featured posts carousel wasn’t working properly either so I have set it to only show the most recent post up there and the rest below.
If you have any suggestions for the site feel free to send them my way. I’ll feel free to either incorporate them or not.
I do plan on attempting much tighter integration between my Facebook and Twitter accounts, hopefully I can get the comments integration working. It’s supposed to be able to pull comments in from my Facebook page on each corresponding story but isn’t working and I have no f’ing clue as to how to get it going. Also I would like to get automatic posting of stories into my Google+ account as well as I have with FB and Twitter.
The basic design I plan on leaving alone as it seems to work well. I have also grown to like using the Disqus commenting system as well and will be leaving it up.
As you can tell I’ve started writing again on a semi-regular basis. There most likely won’t be much new over the next few days though. Christmas is the busiest time at work for me all year culminating with the big day itself. I will end up working 18-20 hours on Christmas day some what little time I do have off will be spent with my family or sleeping. Here’s top hoping everyone has a wonderful holiday and I’ll see you next year most likely.
After reposting a story from my supposed “Lifestream” site and former blog Shadowscope I ended up posting it here as well just a short time ago and figured I would explain why.
I am currently using Shadowscope as the site of my lifestream, which includes links to sites I have saved, my tweets and all sorts of other bullshit. I am also using it to repost news stories that are not complete. Sometimes just to other sites because I don’t currently have the time to write about it but might like to at some other point.
Anyway, if you end up seeing a story linked to there it may end up here eventually. Usually after I have the perp’s mug shot and more of the story.
So 20 days, two trips to the hospital and a procedure later, along with adequate pain pills to ease the situation, and I am back. Sorry about the disappearance but it couldn’t be helped. Just getting back onto the site today and looking for some douchebag to write about, so send ‘em to me!
I have to say it’s been a hell of a year.
I moved the site here from my old one shortly before 2010 started last year due to various reasons, changing from Movabletype to WordPress in the process and bringing along all my old posts from the last ten years or so. While I am still only getting about 10% of the traffic I was generating at my old site I still think it was the right decision. Some of the lack of traffic over the last six months has more to do with my personal life anyway.
My father passed away back at the end of July and my activity on the site has been hit and miss ever since. I want to thank everyone here, particularly Deena who has posted several stories in my absence as well as those of you who send me links to stories and keep visiting daily. You too April! Keep ‘em coming. I know I don’t always get them up in a timely manner but one of my resolutions for the new year is to at least start posting more regularly even if I can’t get quite as many stories up. While I have had a few days where I have managed to write several stories, the last six months have mostly consisted of me ignoring the site entirely. For that I am apologize, some days I just didn’t give a shit. Hell, I don’t even get on Facebook or Twitter very often anymore. I have two Facebook accounts, one a personal account and another for this site. I don’t think I have even logged into my Shell Scott account since the end of July. I am sure I have a couple thousand messages there I probably need to check and answer.
Anyway, here are a few stats and stories from the last year if you are interested.
By far the busiest day here at Sick Crimes was July 30th, the day prior to my father’s death. That’s a weird coincidence I hadn’t noticed before now. Anyway that was the day after Marcy Elliott was found murdered in Carrollton, GA. It was a local story for me and one I wouldn’t think would get that kind of traffic.
As far as the busiest posts for the year here are a couple of them:
Patrick Poteat Brutally Strangled his Wife. This was the busiest post this year both in traffic as well as in the comments. Emotions flared quite often and I still occasionally get comments on this post an entire year after I put it up.
Colondra Hamilton Was Really Autoerotic. Not a huge story but it was sort of weird and all over the Internet.
There are quite a few more stories that we posted throughout the year, you can find them in the archives. Heavily trafficked posts which got nary a comment as well as those that didn’t garner much traffic but obviously affected the emotions of those who stopped by and comments.
Here’s to hoping you all have a wonderful New Year and are able to accomplish everything you attempt for yourself.
I will be on hiatus until next Tuesday. Taking the girls to Disney World for Halloween. No computers, although I will have my cell with me and can receive emails. See you folks next week!
You may have noticed that I added “context links” a while back. Problem is they are friggin irritating and also messed with the setup of a couple of plugins, so I have ditched them. If I come across something that isn’t so damn intrusive I may add them back in later but otherwise they are gone.