Kirk M on January 30th, 2007

It’s late evening here in Stove Pipe City and it’s a balmy 4 degrees below zero outside and calling for a max low temp of 6 below before the sun comes up which is much warmer than what it has been (it was 14 below last night). And I just read an article on that [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on January 29th, 2007

You know, there’s enough things that you have to deal with on a day to day basis that will hold you up in one way, shape, form or another without having to deal with all those idiots out there smothering me with spam when I get home from work.
In the beginning it was just email. [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on January 28th, 2007

I stated earlier when I loaded in a PDA plugin for viewing the site on your PDA that I had turned off the ‘Math Comment Spam Protection’ plugin which didn’t show up for those using a PDA ergo they could not submit a comment.
Unfortunately another spam comment got through both Akismet and the ‘Simple Trackback [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on January 28th, 2007

When I removed the ‘Performancing Partners’ code from my sidebar I found that I missed having the logo that came with it. It really is a fine group over at Performancing and although they went through some rough weather recently they’ve come out the other side of it in good fashion and with an excellent [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on January 28th, 2007

**A beginning afterthought**
(This image is copyrighted by the author but was found in Google
Image Search and was even able to be right clicked and saved
on the original website. So–did I violate something here or not?)
Now to the post itself…
So here I sit, staring at my monitor with my mind a complete blank. There are some [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on January 27th, 2007

I happened to have my SEO Quake Firefox extension enabled while I was checking out my FeedBurner ‘burned’ feed and saw the Google page rank was a 3. So I loaded up the blog and once the main page had loaded up popped my old page rank of 4! Okay, so there’s a bunch of [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on January 26th, 2007

Becky from Sprites and Bites told me about the simple WP-PDA plugin that detects the browser agent and loads a special theme for viewing specifically on a PDA. By what I hear, the plugin works just great for those who have PDA’s.
Me–I don’t own one so I guess I’ll just have to wait until someone [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on January 25th, 2007

Lots of spam comments in Akismet lately.Hmmmpff! Must be getting popular.
I went into my host’s cPanel to check my stats and low and behold I found two of the sites linking to my blog were “xslut.***” and xslut/blog.***”. It seems that Akismet (a most excellent plugin) had a problem recently and a couple of spam [...] Read more »

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