It’s time for an upgrade or two…
I’ve decided to make the jump… to my own domain. I’ll be using GoDaddy for now along with WordPress. I’m currently in the process of migrating the content from Blogger to WordPress. Once I’m happy with...
View ArticleIt’s alive!
Yes yet another WordPress installation! Things are coming along… it’s amazing how someone as simple as a blog can grow so quickly. I’ve got all the content in here, although I desperately need to clean...
View ArticleWordPress – Love It or Hate It!
I’ve made some significant progress tonight in getting the new WordPress installation up and running. There are still some issues with the content from the migration that need to be addressed. We did...
View ArticleThe little web publisher
I’m starting to feel like a little web publishing company given all the steps I’ve had to go through in order to get myself off Blogger and over to WordPress. Don’t get me wrong I’ve kind of enjoyed...
View ArticleGoDaddy Hosting and WordPress
It’s closing in on two months now since I migrated my content from Blogger over to my new WordPress installation at GoDaddy. I must admit that I’ve enjoyed the entire process, from researching the...
View ArticleGravatars – How to setup?
A few folks have asked how to they can setup their avatars so it shows up in the comments. The current WordPress theme I’m using is integrated with Gravatar. You simply need to visit the site and...
View ArticleWe systematically reject ‘apache@…’ Huh?
I’m continually amazed by how much hands on effort it takes to run even a small blog or community these days. The SPAM bots are continually spewing their useless garbage everywhere, the hackers and...
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Humpty Dumpty
It appears there is an issue with the Mystique theme I’m using on my WordPress blog that is literally “hiding” a large number of the comments and replies to almost every post with more than 10 comments...
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WordPress Themes and Frameworks
It was time for a change… perhaps not a completely fresh look but something a little tidier than what I already had up and running. A few months back I stumbled across a problem with the Mystique theme...
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cURL and SSL TLS Issues
I ran into an interesting problem while recently checking over my blog. I noticed that the RSS feed from the discussion forums was failing to load in the HTML footer of my blog. It was returning the...
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I’m making the jump to HTTPS and SSL for this blog
In early January I enabled HTTPS/SSL on the discussion forums with the primary goal of securing user credentials that were being used to log into the forums. Almost twelve months later I’ve found some...
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Where is Seychelles?
With the Christmas break and holidays upon us I usually get a few days to tend to the digital upkeep of my little fiefdom. The plan this year was to add HTTPS/SSL capability to my blog with a...
View ArticleThe Swedes are coming!
No, I was hacked with some stolen user credentials. I was surprised today when I noticed that someone had posted a new article to this site at 6:36AM this morning titled “3 Reasons to Start Using...
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How to start blogging in 2021?
It’s interesting how many people still ask this basic question, wanting to know how much it costs and what it takes or more specifically “how to do it”. I get the question from college students,...
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