I’ve made some changes to the look of this site. I hope these changes are valuable addition to your modern lifestyle.
Category: Site News
1000 Comments
(from the it’s significant because it’s a nice round number dept.) Another pointless milestone has been reached: 1,000 non-spam comments have been posted to this web site. Whoopty-freakin-do!
WordPress 2
I’ve gone ahead and upgraded to WordPress 2. Looks like all the WordPress plugins I use work and I’m trying out the new anti-spam plugin that’s included with version 2 (so far it’s working).
Summary of 2005
In 2005, 189 posts were added to this web log.
Pardon our dust…
If this site has seemed a bit erratic during the last couple of days, it’s because I’ve change web hosting companies (lower price, actual tech. support, more disk space & up to date versions of Perl, PHP, MySQL, etc.). Looks like the new dns info has mostly propagated, so things should be back to normal.
10 years on the web
It was about 10 years ago when I decided to take advantage of my ISP’s free web space and teach myself HTML. Since then, I’ve maintained a continuous presence on the web, moving my web pages from one ISP to another. Finally, in May, 2000 I obtained my own domain. More: Wayback Machine archive of … Continue reading “10 years on the web”
Notice anything different?
I’ve finally switched this site to WordPress. Everything is mostly working — I just need to fix the comments template and the right sidebar doesn’t quite look right when viewed with Internet Explorer (why are you using Internet Explorer anyway?). I also have to figure out a way to make the “Quote of the Day” … Continue reading “Notice anything different?”
rel=”nofollow”
(via Google Blog) If you’re a blogger (or a blog reader), you’re painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites’ search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like “Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site.” This is called comment spam, we don’t like it either, and we’ve been testing a new tag that … Continue reading “rel=”nofollow””
New Year, New Title (sort of)
You may have noticed the title of this page has changed*. As always, the quasi-official name for this web site is Yet Another Web Site (Yet Another Web Site is fairly common so I use a more unique title for this site’s main page). Other than being a cool name for a band or album, … Continue reading “New Year, New Title (sort of)”
Summary of 2004
In 2004, 164 posts were added to this web log.