I wasn’t anxious to change the look of the website — I like Brian Gardner‘s Vertigo Red design, and I really loved his Wonderland design I used at Christmas. Yet, I’m aware of how the website is typically used by readers. There’s a core of readers who hit the website day in and day out,Continue reading “On the New Redesign”
Category Archives: WordPress
On Recent GameStop Searches
A few days ago it was “pitchers.” Now, it’s GameStop and EB Games that are clogging up the search engines on the readers’ way to here. Sadly, no fun searches. Nothing humorous like “pitchers of David Tennant.” No, these are generally serious questions. People trying to figure out something, perhaps to understand something. “GameStop Trade-InContinue reading “On Recent GameStop Searches”
On Reviewing Comment Spam
I’ve spent the last hour going through recent comment spam. Most every blog is subject to comment spam in some form or another. Basically, rogue computers will try and place random comments on blogs that have little, if anything, to do with the post they’re commenting on. The comments will then link back to someContinue reading “On Reviewing Comment Spam”
On a Winter Wonderland
It’s December 23rd. It’s foggy, and it’s rainy. It should be a winter wonderland, shouldn’t it? Snow and trees and snow, right? Well, it can be. On my blog, anyway. Brian Gardner, who designed the Vertigo Blue theme I’ve been using for a while now, released last year a Christmas theme for WordPress called “Wonderland.”Continue reading “On a Winter Wonderland”
On Stupid Spammer Morons
I received a report via e-mail. 404 errors. A lot of 404 errors. What’s a 404 error? Chances are you’ve seen one. You may not realize what it is, though. What a 404 error means is that the page you’re looking for can’t be found. Doesn’t exist. It’s that simple. Or, it could be thatContinue reading “On Stupid Spammer Morons”
On Dealing With Content Theft
In late October I discovered that someone was plagiarising my blog posts on a website, reason unknown. The website looked to have dozens of others’ contents, presumably to game Google’s page-ranks or somesuch. I could have shrugged. Seriously, how do you fight that shit? I sent him an invoice. I’m handy with a computer. IContinue reading “On Dealing With Content Theft”
On New Avatars
Look for Allyn Gibson around the ‘net, and chances are there’s a little South Park Allyn attached to the posting. Which is fine, but I’ve been using some variant on that venerable icon for a number of years. I needed a new look. I’d branched out maybe a year ago; I started using my name,Continue reading “On New Avatars”
On More Tinkering
And now, at last, I’m happy with the way the tag listing appears in the sidebar. 🙂 WordPress 2.3 added tags to the code core, only it didn’t really provide any good methods of working with them. And the solution that worked for previous iterations of WordPress — Ultimate Tag Warrior — didn’t work anyContinue reading “On More Tinkering”
On Some New Changes
The Stonehenge theme was always a short-term solution. I knew that WordPress 2.3 was coming. I knew it was adding tagging to the core. And I knew that meant changes under the hood to the way WordPress themes worked. I remember the upgrade to 2.1. Oh, do I remember the upgrade to WordPress 2.1. SoContinue reading “On Some New Changes”
On This and That
From Godwin to Scotland. It’s a live album from one of my favorite bands, Carbon Leaf. It’s the recording of a concert they gave at Mills Godwin High School in Richmond as a fundraiser for the school’s drama club to go on a trip to Scotland. I think that maybe 200 of these CDs wereContinue reading “On This and That”