You can tell I’m a baseball fan; I love statistics. I don’t always know what to do with them, I’m always reminded of Mark Twain’s “There are lies, damned lies, and statistics,” and sometimes I can get really squirrelly with stats. Numbers, hard data — these are fun things, even if they’re completely meaningless and,Continue reading “On the Latest Blog Stats”
Tag Archives: WordPress
On Early Morning Coding
Well, that was a frustrating two hours of working with PHP code. :-/ Our story began last week; I changed my blog’s theme to Tarski, which I ran with for a while and really liked. (To be honest, I don’t even remember why I changed.) Tarski is not easy to work with under the hood,Continue reading “On Early Morning Coding”
On Changing the Decorations
Christmas has passed (unless you’re Orthodox, and then you have a few days left), and I felt the itch. The itch to change my blog theme, that is. I had a wintry theme going for the holidays. The holidays are past. “Change, m’dear, and not a moment too soon!” and all that. 🙂 And sinceContinue reading “On Changing the Decorations”
On Modifying the WordPress Dashboard
One of the nifty new features of WordPress 2.7 is the Gravatar support on the Dashboard screen that I see. If you leave a comment, I get to see a little icon of who you are. That is, assuming you have a gravatar. 🙂 If you don’t have a gravatar, then I see something elseContinue reading “On Modifying the WordPress Dashboard”
On Test Driving New Features
For shits and giggles, I downloaded the WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate. I was curious, first, what it would look like “under the hood.” I knew they were putting together a new user interface, and I wondered what that looked like. I knew they were planning some new features, and I was curious about those, too.Continue reading “On Test Driving New Features”
On the Day After Thanksgiving
If you are Black Friday shopping, do be careful. 🙂 I’ve had to disable the “Let It Snow” plugin for the blog. That plug-in created gently falling snow. It was pretty. It was hypnotic. It also caused problems for people browsing with Internet Explorer. (And really, if you’re using IE, why don’t you upgrade toContinue reading “On the Day After Thanksgiving”
On More Bloggery Thinking
Two weeks ago I put together a WordPress theme for a possible work blog. It’s nothing great — it’s a free CSS template, married to some php code I pulled together, plus some CSS jiggery-pokery &mdsh; and as a tech demo it does pretty much what I wanted it to: it showed that a visionContinue reading “On More Bloggery Thinking”
On Writing and Bloggery
Sometimes I have bonkers story ideas. And sometimes those bonkers ideas need to… germinate. In July I had one of those ideas. It was a neat hook, but where does one go with it? I batted it around, I tried a couple of different angles, and earlier this week I figured out how to crackContinue reading “On Writing and Bloggery”
On Talking Blogging
James Bow pointed me in the direction of this, two questions that basically ask, “Why blog?” Let’s take a look at both, and see what sort of bloggery insights I may have in answering Amy’s questions… What is one thing you wish you knew about blogging when you started or what advice would you giveContinue reading “On Talking Blogging”
On My First Blog Post
I logged into my WordPress install this evening, not really having anything on my mind to blog about, until I saw a link to this — Do You Remember Your First Blog Post? WordPress gives me an aggregation of links to some WordPress-related blogs. At one time I had a plugin installed that simply blockedContinue reading “On My First Blog Post”