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 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 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 June 15th, 2007
in Blogging and Photography.
Over the last couple of weeks as I’ve been ramping up to do the whole “fancy new camera” thing, I began to realize that my free Flickr account probably isn’t going to cut it as far as volume of images, and flexibility for things like set creation etc.
At first I just assumed that I’d […]
Published March 22nd, 2007
in Astronomy, Blogging and Podcasting.
It’s time to Bum Rush The Charts!
Published February 22nd, 2007
in Admin Tools, Blogging, Downloads and Utilities.
For those of you who run your own blogs, and take care of the updates yourselves, I’ve created a Wordpress Upgrade script. Note: This is a Linux/Unix/Mac OS X shell script, not a Windows batch file.
The script is very simple:
Download the latest Wordpress archive from the website
Uncompress it to a temporary location
Migrate all of […]