Archive for the ‘blogging’ Category

Please Pardon Our Dust

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

It's time for a new theme here, and instead of using one of the pre-done themes, I'm trying out K2. K2 is sort of a baseline theme that many of those you see today are based on. I'll be updating it further in the next several days. Sorry for ...

Don’t Be an Idiot, part two

Friday, April 13th, 2007

Tim has published a follow up to his Blogger's Code of Conduct, complete with an analysis on all of the feedback he's received, including the use of badges and icons, the need for a "modular" code of conduct, "mechanism", and even legal issues. It's more serious than I thought. What's ...

DON’T BE AN IDIOT (DBAI)

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

There is lots of hullabaloo going around about Tim O'Reilly's "Blogger's Code of Conduct". I understand where he's coming from, and it's an admirable effort. But, a "code of conduct"? How about just some common sense. Blog owners just need to take responsibility for the content that's on their blogs, and if ...

Buh-bye Askimet

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

I just pulled the plug on Askimet. Why would I do this to a plugin that's been saving me about 1000 spam comments a day? Because once in a while it caught up a real comment. While I appreciate the effort these guys go through to thwart ...