Am I busy, dead, or in Central Illinois*?
Light posting lately. Lots going on. Spent the weekend doing summer stuff with the kids before they go back to school tomorrow. Be back in blogging form one of these days. * Before she and I got...
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Google+
Yeah, I don’t understand Google+ yet, either. It’s apparently the new blogging MySpace Friendster Twitter Facebook. If you’re not on it you’ll never get invited to another taffy pull. James Brandon –...
View ArticleWelcome to the blogroll, WizardPC
Walls Of The City’s WizardPC has a new blog – Guns, Cars, and Tech.
View ArticleI had to turn off comments on old posts
The spammers are out in droves. A lot of other blogs automatically turn off comments on old posts. I’ve avoided doing that for years, because I’ll occasionally get informative, insightful comments on...
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Bleg: What’s a good social media site for hosting MP3 content?
We have a really good talk from a business luncheon last week we’d like to share. What’s a good social media site to host a long (1 hour) MP3 file? The file is 58 MB. We may host it on our Web site,...
View ArticleRSS Feed Problem Solved
As you know if you got a big burst of posts in your RSS read I’ve fixed the problem with the Feedburner RSS feed. It turns out the RSS feed problem was related to a security issue I’ve been trying to...
View ArticleFacebook expected to account for 5% of all online advertising in 2012
Ad spending on Facebook will nearly double this year.
View ArticleNew versions of WordPress are pretty smart about strikethroughs
In this post I used megabytes when I should have used gigabytes. Sean noticed the error and mentioned it in comments. Different bloggers handle that in different ways. Some people would just change it....
View ArticleUpdate those Web server clocks for Daylight Savings Time
In WordPress it’s under Settings -> General. For UNIX on a bash shell and a date of March 12 and a time of 8:35 AM you’ll need to be root and run the command: date -s 3/12/2012 08:35:00
View ArticleCourt rules that quoting newspaper articles online constitutes fair use
Boing Boing – Fed court: quoting newspaper articles online is fair use – Boing Boing. Judge Roger Hunts judgment confirms that an online forum is not liable for its users posts, even if it was not...
View ArticleFacebook Cover Photo Tips
Effective March 30, all company pages on Facebook use the new Timeline layout. As part of that layout you’ll need a cover photo. Facebook specifies a 851 x 315 pixel picture in sRGB colorspace for best...
View ArticleThe New Blogger Interface is Causing Farmer Frank to Quit Blogging
Signing Off: The alternatives in my view are worse because in just about all the acceptable (to me in terms of usage rules) cases I will have to spend money to do this nonsense which means by Dad’s...
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The first recorded use of OMG
is from 1917. And the person using it doesn’t look at all like a tweener girl.
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For reasons too mysterious to explain, unseen forces beyond my control compel...
But mostly it’s being busy and having a cold.
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Use Google XML Sitemaps for WordPress? Check your sitemap.xml.gz for corruption.
Recent versions of the Google XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress create bad versions of the gzipped sitemap.xml file. Here’s how to check if yours does and fix the problem. First, find out which sitemap...
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