Published July 12th, 2007
in Admin Tools, Blogging, Downloads and Web 2.0.
In developing the new site (more info soon I promise!) I’ve been scouring the ‘net for the best and brightest of plugins for Wordpress to not only improve the site and content, but to make my life easier.
Enter Pluginstaller.
This Wordpress plugin created by Henning Shaefer revamps the Plugin screen in the admin panel and […]
Published July 11th, 2007
in Astronomy and News.
I’ve been meaning to post this one up for a couple of weeks now, its a shot of the International Space Station taken from the Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis on STS-117. It’s a great shot of the station which looks much more symmetrical now that it has a second set of solar panels providing additional […]
Published July 9th, 2007
in Admin Tools, Blogging, Downloads and Web 2.0.
Just the other day, I noticed that my Akismet Spam filter for the blog had blocked it’s 10,000th Spam comment. That’s a lotta spam.
It’s amazing to me how much Internet bandwidth must be consumed by spam-bots posting to blogs and forums. The official Akismet website hosts a segment they call the Spam […]
Published July 9th, 2007
in Gadgets, Tech Tips and Technology.
This is something that had been plaguing me for several months since I acquired my Palm Treo 700wx. Overall I’ve loved the device and found it absolutely indispensable. There are of course a few niggling details like the lack of a scroll wheel, but overall I’ve been really happy with it.
One thing I couldn’t […]
Published July 7th, 2007
in Movies.
Last night was my opportunity to check out the new Transformers Movie. Being a child of the 80’s who grew up with Optimus and the boys I have been looking forward to this movie ever since I saw the first trailer over a year ago.
I’m not one that likes to have the classics […]
Published July 4th, 2007
in Admin Tools, Blogging, Internet and Web 2.0.
I just found by chance today a new service, and a wordpress plugin for that service!
The service is MyOpenID.com, which provides a persistent login mechanism across websites which support the technology. This allows you to provide only your MyOpenID.com user account name to sign up for certain sites/services. This “single-sign-on” technology can greatly reduce […]
Published July 3rd, 2007
in Blogging.
I’ve recently decided to move the blog, and give it a bit of an overhaul. So I registered a new domain and over the last day or so have begun to plan out the new site.
There are a few things I would like the new site to do other than simply host the […]
Published July 1st, 2007
in News.
Well, here I am, 12 whole minutes late for my Canada Day post. It’s now July 2nd in most of the world, but I’d just like to take a second to reflect on the fact that it’s been 140 years since Canada was first declared a country under the British-North America act of […]