WordPress blogging software has some features that allow people’s comments to be held for moderation by me later (rather than published instantly). BUT, it’s not always clear what constitutes the criteria. For instance, I have it set to hold any comment for my personal moderation that includes more than one hyperlink (tell-tale spam), [...]
I’ve been a little silent on here… but not for lack of things to rant about. I’ve been traveling to Lake Placid, watching the Olympics, and playing the game Mass Effect. I’ll be posting pictures from Lake Placid soon… and I’ll also be weighing in on the Mass Effect game (because there’s a [...]
I begged them to implement the WordPress.COM avatar-generation option for the WordPress.ORG software… and in THIS version they did! That means that if a commenter doesn’t have a Gravatar (although everyone SHOULD!) I can instead have their supplied email address generate an avatar for them - like a special geometric pattern (identicon) or a [...]
I get a lot of questions asking me, “How do I get a picture avatar next to my comments like you and other people have?” …or saying, “I checked your blog everywhere for a place to upload my picture but couldn’t find one anywhere.” The answer is Gravatar.com.
My site supports what are called gravatars, [...]
Of course there will be the obligatory tweaking over the next few weeks… but here’s the long-awaited (mostly by me) redesign. I will blog about this officially very soon - the post you are looking at is an “aside”, and is styled slightly subtler than a regular post. Let me know what you [...]
I’ve been jawing about this a while (too long)… but there is seriously a new design for this blog coming very soon. It will be another light-on-dark color scheme… but very colorful, slightly space-themed, and demi-minimalistic.
Today your RSS feed may have brought up a strange post on Negative99.com… just after a post critical of radical Islam.
hacked// asite NEGATIVE99 infidel
negative99 infidel hav hack pages ha ha
w. bush = 666 and satan _must disembark away the holy peoples oh to glorious allah
And when you go to Negative99 you see a page that [...]
WordPress 2.5 has been officially released! Rejoice, oh blogging masses!
As I stated in an earlier post (while alpha-testing the software) this is a major software upgrade with a gazillion improvements. As with any massive change there will be some broken WordPress themes and plugins to fix… but the sunshine on the horizon [...]
1&1 sucks.
I used to use (until 17 minutes ago) 1&1 Internet Hosting for all my websites, including this blog. Now, I’ve had problems with them frequently, but the past 3 days have been beyond anything readily comparable. Over the weekend the server that “hosts” my web content was up… then down… then up… [...]
WordPress, the foremost blogging system used on the internet today, has just released their version 2.5 for alpha testers a couple days ago. I have been testing it… and I have to say that I am impressed.
I love WordPress. I use it for several websites (including the one you’re reading and my personal [...]
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