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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 (jstein@madison.com) of the Wisconsin State Journal When Greg “Mac” MacDonald of Manchester heard about protests at the funerals of fallen Wisconsin soldiers, he [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

What you gonna do about it, bloggy? Riot? Burn down your computer? I dare ya! I dare ya! Trackbacked to: Michelle Malkin Liberal Common Sense THM’s Bacon Bits Quietly Making Noise The Conservative Cat Everyman Chronicles NIF MacStansbury.org Right Wing Nation The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns Diane’s Stuff MacBros’ Place Blue Star Chronicles Third [...]

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 [...]