A Peculiar Blog

I’ve been thinking about some changes to the look and function of the blog and tonight I’ve finally gotten around to actually doing some of it. I removed the big no-google graphic and the dead monitor donate button that were in the sidebar because, honestly, they were taking up a bunch of space and [...]

What do you do when you’re toiling away at the project of the moment and all of a sudden your monitor goes dark? There’s no clicking sounds, not a whiff of smoke or a flicker of the lights. The computer itself continues merrily along, waiting for your next input or instruction. Checking [...]

Freenet users: I’ve updated the seednodes.ref.zip file that I keep available on my “unofficial freenet alternative download page”
For those who prefer to get it within freenet itself here’s the key:
CHK@JithgPJCnK6JBPWOZimPXlOyQXYUAwI,p9LVPGPIWedHtWI8ryJX8A/seednodes.ref.zip
(for this link to work you must be running Freenet 0.5)
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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. [...]

Well, I think I’ve just taken the last step in my latest re-design adjustments. I’ve deactivated and removed the adsense plugin from Wordpress and the last bit of ‘G’ specific code (analytics) is now gone. I switched to using statcounter instead because frankly, it’s a lot more user friendly and easier to deal [...]

Then it’s because I’ve been moving this blog’s subdomain, the primary domain, and some other bits from one web host to another. In the process there was at least 12 hours or more during which things didn’t work.
Fortunately I’ve gotten it all straightened out with the aid of the support wiki on Dreamhost and [...]

I’ve decided to give a try moving from the “Royal” theme that I’ve been using for so long to ont that I built with the WordPress Theme Generator.
The main reason was that the Royal theme seemed to be slower loading and scrolling was kinda sluggish. I’m hoping that this new theme will do the [...]

I’ve decided to give the Lucia’s Linky Love plugin a try. This means that after three comments, the url associated with your name will automatically have nofollow removed and after four comments, links within your comments get the same treatment.
It’s not that I’ve got a whole lot of comment spam right now, but I’m [...]

I’ve recently read a bunch of stuff about a paid blogging company and a change that they made to their TOS. Now the matter has since been calmed down and it’s apparently working toward some kind of solution. But I thought I’d take this opportunity to state my own position on the matter [...]