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A Time for Change
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | Tech News | No Comments
It has been quite some time since I’ve had a new theme here at the blog. I’ve decided it is time to get up to date on HTML 5 and what you see is a minimalist HTML 5 based theme. I will be styling to my liking as time permits.
Top 5 Features to look forward to
Warning: Highly technical one and a half hour video on HTML 5 goodness.
Post to Wordpress from Word 2007…
Monday, January 28th, 2008 | Tech Help | Comments Off
While poking around Word 2007 today I realized that I could be posting from Word instead of the WYSIWYG/html Wordpress editor. What you see here is the 1st post from Word to Wordpress on my site.
Setting up the connection info is a snap. You just have to enter in the URL of your site, the info of the user you want to post as and you are on your way.
I’m not sure if I will continue using Word 2007 to post as some of the advanced options for images and post layout are a bit finicky, but it is a great way for average users to use an application they are comfortable with to post to their blogs.
Updates, Updates, Updates…
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 | Life, Tech Help | Comments Off
It has been a long time since I've been able to get myself together to post something of worth here. Life has been very busy, yet at the same time nothing much of note has happened, tech wise at least. The baby continues to grow inside mommy, the babies room has been finished and a major overhaul to the basement and driveway has taken place. So you can see why I have had little time for a tech blog. › Continue reading
WP Update & A Lonely Boy
Friday, March 23rd, 2007 | Tech News | Comments Off
Looks like my upgrade of Wordpress to the latest & greatest version has gone as smoothly as one can hope for. I also took the opportunity to see if any of the plugins I use here have had updates. Some actually did. It is good to see that there is a thriving community to support WordPress.
On another note, Kris is leaving for Toronto this afternoon and will not be back until next Wednesday. Our furry lil beasties will be extra needy while she is gone, so I will have my hands full. I do have a few things planned already so I will not need a honey do list left for me, and I can always waste time playing WoW.
My Facebook community is really growing. It started very slowly, then yesterday exploded when I was able to find a number of old school mates, some I haven't seen in over a decade. It was good to catch up on what they have been doing all these years.
WordPress & Comment Spam Filtering
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 | Tech News | Comments Off
I am very impressed with the Akismet Spam filtering system that WordPress has integrated into their blogging software. Recently this blog has gotten quite a bit of spam and Akismet has stopped nearly all of it (99.996%). I moderate the comments before they are posted here and only 2 of 450+ spam comments were in my moderation list. I'm not sure why they weren't in the spam folder as they were clearly spam, but I am still thoroughly impressed.
I haven't upgraded to WP 2.1 yet, but I hear that there is an updated version of Akismet included in the update. Akismet is free for personal use, and if you have a WordPress blog, I urgently recommend using it.
Wordpress Plugin: Ad-Rotator
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006 | Tech Help | 8 Comments
Ad-Rotator is simple, yet effective ad rotation plugin for Wordpress written by Angsuman Chakraborty . As is often the case with community written plugins, the technical docs on how to get the plugin to work are limited and somewhat confusing, specifically in regards to Google's Ad-sense program. I was able to reach Angsuman via email and after a quick flurry of messages he was able to show me how to get Ad-Rotator working with a number of different affiliate programs, including Ad-sense. › Continue reading
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