A Peculiar Blog

Back on March 21 I decided to try putting one of those “Chip-in” widgets in the sidebar. The idea was to raise enough cash to get a digital camera. Something better than the Polaroid Photomax Digital 320 that we’ve got laying around here or the webcam that, on a good day, can manage [...]

Ever get the admonition from your parents that “Money doesn’t grow on trees” or variations of it such as “[mistreated, expensive, and/or hard to find item] doesn’t grow on trees”? I’m reminded of that now as our household finds itself in need of a laptop or three to supplement our desktop systems with the [...]

When I started my first blog, I was using thingamablog to do it with. I’ve long since converted to WordPress but I remember it well. It was actually a decent program.
Then on the latest edition of the flog “My Two Cents Worth(freenet link*)” there’s talk of a version that’s been modified so that [...]

First, I’ll quote the “official” announcement that appeared on the Freenet support list this morning:
Freenet is a global peer-to-peer network designed to allow users to publish and consume information without fear of censorship. To use it, you must download the Freenet software, available for Windows, Mac, Linux and other operating systems. Once you [...]

I recently discovered something that I think is going to turn out to be a really popular plugin. It’s the CommentLuv Wordpress plugin.
When enabled, it looks for the most recent post on the RSS feed at the url that the commenter leaves when posting the comment and adds a link to that post at [...]

Anybody that’s been around the web in general and blogging in particular knows very much the value of social bookmarking sites, like Digg, Technorati, StumbleUpon and others. They’re the source of a lot of traffic and it’s helpful to be indexed in their sites. If you’ve got the SearchStatus plugin for Firefox and you [...]

This is a few days old and I wish I’d gotten to it sooner but better late than never.
A journalism student in Afghanistan made the fatal mistake of telling a truth that somebody didn’t want told.
Specifically, he downloaded and then shared a report that was critical of the treatment of women in islamic countries. [...]

If you’re reading this then it’s pretty likely that you’ve noticed the banner ad at the top of the page and the half-banners between each entry. I’ve decided to try out some of the more commonly used forms of advertising such as Bidvertiser and some others to see if they can actually be made [...]

When wordpress went from version 2.2 to 2.3, one of the changes I noticed was the incoming links are no longer shown from Technorati. Instead you see the incoming links from a google blogsearch. I started out doing this because I wasn't all that thrilled about the change and wanted to change back. [...]

I just saw a slashdot item that makes me wonder about the Japanese government… They’re apparently getting some laws passed that are laying the groundwork for what has the potential to become an Orwellian regulation of online communications.
Oh, it’s initial purpose is going to be to stop piracy and illegal downloads & such, but [...]