Received this email:

It appears your website has been compromised. When visiting https://gnxp.com (as opposed to regular http) Firefox prompted me with a message that the security certificate for snakeoil.dom has expired. After some googling I found out it is likely an authentication certificate for a virus.

http://journals.aol.com/cutefacedblonde/snakeoil.dom--snakeoil.com/

I didn't have the same problem. I'm in a hurry, but I assume this is a client side issue? There isn't an SSL certificate for this website.

Update: See this.

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Some of you may have noticed that I've been tweaking with the template a bit. The goal is to make the site look less ghetto and maximize ease of use for regulars and new readers. Using the site for the past day I have noticed that I had been using the big ScienceBlogs image to check my other weblog, so I added a small link to the right with a link to the other Gene Expression. The main other difference is that I added links to the various categories ("labels") that we've been using for a while now. It's messy as there are inconsistencies with spelling and casing, and I'll fix that later, but if you are interested in category views, well, they're back after a 3 year hiatus (I deleted the MT templates for categories years ago during one of the "server over usage" crises we used to have back when we weren't being hosted by Rick & Liz. I never reinstalled them because it didn't look like it was easy and I didn't want to spend the time on that, but people have long wanted to have category archives).

Update: You can now send an email immediately to the author of any post by simply clicking their name (see above to the right of the post). There has been a contact link to the right for a while, but I just figured this would be easier for a lot of people, especially if (for example) the author of a study critiqued found a post via google and wanted to respond directly instead of in comments (which would likely be long dead).

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Just an FYI, Haloscan seems to be forcing a delay between posting a comment into their database and displaying it on the message board. Please wait a few minutes before posting again! Your comment might show up.

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I've received a half dozen complaints about the slowness of the site due to the technorati widget, so I've removed it for now. I see an improvement in load time. Yay or nay?

Also, to the right you should see an RSS feed logo from feedburner. I've always had a feed, with a small link provided, but I figured that regular readers should really be encouraged to use this. Of course, the RSS won't tell you which comment threads are hopping, but in terms of maximizing time utilization I think it's a good move. You can always bookmark the Haloscan thread of interest (speaking of which, anyone know a better offsite comment service? I don't like onsite comments because they are liable to take a site down because of repeated hits).

Finally, for those of you down with RSS, I highly recommend adding a few Google News queries to your feeds. For instance, I have genetics & evolution always updating in Google Reader (which has some downsides, but I like the total integration with my google home page). You can see the RSS links to the bottom left. The PLOS network also has an excellent set of feeds (page down) so you don't need to keep checking on their site for new articles (other journals have them too, but I don't find them as user friendly or value added).

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