Upgrade in progress
I'm upgrading the version of Wordpress (the software that runs this blog) on my server. This is a periodically necessary process in order to keep up with security updates. Some…
Blogging about blogging
Long silence…catching up
I haven't been posting here for a loooong time: over a month, I think. So, what's up? In the past month, I've been doing the following things: spent a lot…
Ecto 2.0 for Windows and Ultimate Tag Warrior revisited
I mentioned previously that I had installed Ultimate Tag Warrior on my site. In that posting, I implied that I had Ecto for Windows working with UTW. The truth is, it only seemed to be working- in reality, Ecto was creating tags that UTW could work with, but it wasn’t able to read them back in for editing purposes.
It’s been a bit of a struggle getting it to work…
Blog spam continues to pour in: Akismet starting to miss some…
It's old news for the big bloggers, but for me its somewhat novel- the sheer volume of spam comments to my blog is growing at an amazing pace. You don't…
“Art” versus “Design”
I spent a few minutes the other day following a series of threads about a disagreement between a website designer and a "famous" blogger. In summary: a guy paid for…
Blog spam, content theft, and other fun things
When I converted my site to a "for real" blog using Wordpress about a year ago after nearly a decade "pretend" blogging, it was like I'd moved into a nice,…
Ecto 2 error message makes me smile…
Ecto is a great "off line" blog post editor, and I strongly recommend it for anyone who posts a lot to one of the types of blogs it supports. Version…
Ultimate Tag Warrior, Ecto, and other fun things
I have become increasingly intrigued with the concept of "tagging" in blogs over the past year or so. Tagging is a way for someone posting a blog entry (or other…
Microsoft wants *you* to try IE 7 Beta…
Microsoft is on its second beta of Internet Explorer 7, and they really want people to download and use it. I've been telling people who are having problems seeing my…
Messing around with my site appearance
If the site looks a little "broken" at the moment, that's my fault. I decided it would be interesting to try a new(ish) option for Wordpress called "widgets" which, in…