Today I got a bunch of comment spam, I was lucky enough to be at my computer while it was happening as i could follow it all in real time. Here is what it looked like. I use disqus as my comment management system instead of the default wordpress comment system. I haven’t received spam [...]
I didn’t realize this, but aparently The White House does video streaming on their official website. This particular one was of the astronauts in the International Space Station. President Obama was conducting an interview with them. http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
I just upgraded to 2.7 today. I have been using the beta versions and release candidates on another site for a couple of months now, but since its official release yesterday, I have decided to make the plunge and upgrade my personal site. If you use WordPress, 2.7 is a major update. It changes the [...]
I will be attending WordCamp Birmingham! I hope to meet with the others that are attending. I have been using wordpress for a few years now. As some of you may know, I have been blogging for about 8 years and mostly do it for myself and friends. I do operate a good handful of [...]
Akismet isn’t the problem, the problem is with the few pieces that akismet doesn’t catch. They start to add up.
So I finaly got my iPhone today. I ordered the phone on Monday of the week before and today nearly two weeks later I got it. Thanks to the outrageous demand for the second coming of the Jesus phone of took me forever to finally get one in my hand. This is a very crappy [...]
I just upgraded to WordPress 2.6 and they have some nice feature improvements. One of the best features I see now while I am typing is an instant word count and the ability to restore different draft points. As I am writing this I know now that I have written 62 words on this post. [...]
I have never seen this happen before on my blog, curious if others have seen something like this on theirs.
I have just changed my commenting system over to disqus. I like the concept, you own your comments, no matter where you go, so both the website using disqus gets to keep track of the user and their comments, but can also follow that user and their comments on other sites. The commenter gets to [...]
I have used several threaded comments plugins for wordpress over the years and the best one for the most part was called Brian’s Threaded Comments. There were issues with this plugin, it took lots of time to reconfigure the comments.php style to fit that of the theme your blog already has. Sometimes the javascript messed [...]