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Joining the not-hosted-on-a-cable-modem community

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

So, I’m finally doing it. I got my tax refund back, and I decided to spend about a third of it on domains and hosting … So now I’m complich8.[com/net/org] instead of archlich.dyndns.org. I’m going to make every attempt to avoid breaking things … but we’ll see how it goes. Meanwhile, update your links/bookmarks/etc. Point [...]

Choices

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

I was trying to keep random due-dates in my head organized… and realized that it wasn’t happening. In an effort to make myself slightly less confused about what’s due when, I went looking for a wordpress calendar plugin. And found like 7 of them. 3 of them seemed like they’d fit my purpose. So, how [...]

WordPress 2.0

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

So, I’m trying out wordpress 2.0 now. Hoping things work out. So far, the upgrade went smoothly, but the theme switcher plugin is misbehaving a bit. So just a heads-up, if you want a non-default (ie: not complich8ions) theme, you may need to choose the same theme twice from the theme switcher. I don’t quite [...]

Spammers

Monday, December 26th, 2005

In other news, I’ve apparently drawn the attention of some spammer somewhere, who dropped about 50 messages in my moderation queue. I didn’t even know I _had_ a moderation queue. I just noticed it on a whim, poking around looking for another feature that doesn’t seem to be here! But yeah … of the 53 [...]

WordPress 1.5.2

Sunday, December 25th, 2005

On a whim, I upgraded from wordpress 1.5.0 to 1.5.2. Minor version update, no biggie. Just something to keep current. Looking at the feature changes for 2.0, I’m quite looking forward to that coming out (and being tagged stable). Several very welcome changes there.