Akismet has not let a single spam get through. It is worth switching to WordPress just to get this plugin. I’ve been getting quite a bit of sucky spam comments lately. I’m sure this has something to do with my page views going from about 40 per day to over 170 per day. Spammers, you… Continue reading Props to Akismet
Author: Mark
Open trackback Friday
I’m posting this one on Thursday night and will let it run until Sunday night. My son has tomorrow off of school so we’re going to do something fun. Every Friday I will try to have an Open Trackback article. From the Open Trackback Alliance FAQ: The entire concept is to encourage bloggers to showcase… Continue reading Open trackback Friday
TAG! You’re It!
Diane tagged me with this List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see… Continue reading TAG! You’re It!
Patriot Guard Riders – Americans Doing the Right Thing
God bless the Patriot Guard Riders. These All-American bikers attend the funerals of our fallen heroes and shield the grieving families from idiot protestors. Motorcyclists shield mourners from protesters by JASON STEIN ([email protected]) of the Wisconsin State Journal When Greg “Mac” MacDonald of Manchester heard about protests at the funerals of fallen Wisconsin soldiers, he… Continue reading Patriot Guard Riders – Americans Doing the Right Thing
A gift from Mom
Today day my Mom gave me a nice present. She let me upgrade her iMac from OS 9 (with IE/Mac as her default browser) to OS X (with Safari). Mom and change do not go together very well but she took to OS X quite well. That 400MHz G3 was partying like it was 1999.… Continue reading A gift from Mom
Open Trackback Friday
I’m posting this one on Thursday night and will let it run until Sunday night. My son has tomorrow off of school so we’re going to do something fun. Every Friday I will try to have an Open Trackback article. From the Open Trackback Alliance FAQ: The entire concept is to encourage bloggers to showcase… Continue reading Open Trackback Friday
Camino 1.0 Stable release
Camino is a Mac only browser (that’s the way to stick it to the man). After trying it out is seems much snappier than both Safari and Firefox. It comes with “Web Standards” links in the bookmarks (always a good sign). It handles javascript that Safari chokes on (such as the buttons in WordPress’ Write… Continue reading Camino 1.0 Stable release
Updated IKM Standards forums to simple machines
Like many I have grown weary of the constant updates and security holes in phpBB and having to constantly hack the templates to make them comply with W3 standards, I decided to give Simple Machines a try. I like it. I like it enough to replace the forum I have on this site. This forum… Continue reading Updated IKM Standards forums to simple machines
More news on the WordPress trackback issue
In my WordPress Trac Ticket concerning the WordPress teams preference of pingbacks over trackbacks, I went ahead and reopened the ticket with the following complaint. I’m going to go ahead and disagree with you completely on this. You say “More contextual”, I say “More nonsensical”. It just doesn’t work the way you think it does… Continue reading More news on the WordPress trackback issue
Open Trackback Day!
Every Friday I will try to have an Open Trackback article. From the Open Trackback Alliance FAQ: The entire concept is to encourage bloggers to showcase their best recent articles on other blogs which may not otherwise recognize or know about their works. Open Trackback Alliance members have agreed to create an open article at… Continue reading Open Trackback Day!
Changes to execute-pings.php
In my disagreement with the powers-that-be of the WordPress creators and coders, I expressed the need for Trackbacks to take precedence over Pingbacks. They marked my trac ticket as WONTFIX so I did it myself. I simply rearranged the order in which the pings are sent putting trackbacks before pingbacks: <?phprequire_once(‘../wp-config.php’);// Do Enclosures while ($enclosure… Continue reading Changes to execute-pings.php
Upgraded to WP 2.0.1
After much complaining and being generally annoying to the WordPress writers and coders I decided to upgrade to 2.0.1 Trackbacks seem to be working but I will have to do some more tests. Also, word press is flawed in the way that if both a trackback and a pingback goes to the same blog the… Continue reading Upgraded to WP 2.0.1