Incase you didn’t hear, WordPress v2.0.2 was released. It’s a bunch of bugfixes and security fixes. If you’re running the v2.x series of WordPress, it’s strongly suggested that you upgrade.
You can check out the official post announcing version 2.0.2 on the WordPress Development Blog.
Oh, and don’t forget to backup!! You don’t wanna be like me, do you? 😉
This post was originally posted on March 7th, 2006 at 4:33 PM. However, I busted my blog by upgrading to the wrong version of WordPress and had to revert to a database backup. That resulted in the loss of this post.
I’m working on a new theme for my blog as I’ve grown tired of this one. You can check it out at my development blog. It’s still a work in progress and is based on andreas09, a template (I converted it to a WordPress theme) by Andreas Viklund.
If you have any suggestions about it, please let me know by leaving a comment on this post! I’m looking for it to be the best theme as possible. 🙂
This post was originally posted on March 7th, 2006 at 4:17 PM. However, I busted my blog by upgrading to the wrong version of WordPress and had to revert to a database backup. That resulted in the loss of this post.
I was watching a Discovery Channel show that I downloaded today called “Ultimate 10 Military Machines” and it featured this crazy plane called the Airborne Laser (ABL) for short (see right).
It flies around above the clouds in friendly skies looking for enemy missles. It then locks onto them with a bunch of low power lasers and then uses a bigass chemical powered laser that’s 1000 times as powerful as the sun to basically burn a hole in the missle.
How futuristic and crazy is that?!
You can find out more about it at Boeing’s website.
First, a bit of history. I have been using the anti-spam plugin Spam Karma 2 on my blog for months. It’s quite an excellent piece of work. It uses a ton of different methods to determine if a comment is spam including the age of the post, a Javascript payload (most spam bots don’t support Javascript), URL blacklists, comparison to other spam comments by the same person, etc. All of those result in a very low error rate and next to no spam actually making it onto my blog.
Anyway, I decided to try out recently the only other player worth mentioning in the WordPress anti-spam field, Akismet. Rather than trying to figure out if a comment is spam by doing a bunch of tests on your blog’s end, it sends the comment’s contents off to Akismet’s servers and it compares it to the huge database that it has.
Now of course this has it’s pros and cons. The pros are that it’s always up to the second on spam as it uses other blogs to compare with. However, it doesn’t do the Javascript tests or compare it to other spam on your blog. And in the end, I found it to be reliable, but not quite as much so as SK2. Which is why I switched back.
However, the other day I ran across an excellent little plugin for SK2 that uses the Akismet servers as an additional resource for evaluating the comment’s karma. So, now I have the best of both worlds!
Oh, and before I forget: spammers, please go die in a ditch. Thanks.
As some of you may have noticed, I broke my blog earlier today.
Long story short, I tried to upgrade to the release canidate of version 2.0.2 of WordPress, but accidentally downloaded and upgraded to a very alpha version of version 2.1 instead. It was really not what I wanted and it’s so alpha that it didn’t even work quite right. And of course the worse part was that it upgraded my database and so I couldn’t just downgrade.
Luckily I just happened to make a database backup on Sunday, so I only lost a couple posts and comments. Pretty funny actually seeing how I usually only backup once a month. Close call, huh? 🙂
Anyway, I saved the lost posts and I’ll re-add them tomorrow as I’m off to bed for now. 😉
You made us all laugh with your great comedic skills. You will be missed. 🙁
(For those that didn’t hear, he died on Saturday of pulmonary and respiratory complications. He was 81.)
Since I’ve noticed that a lotta Germans are using my Battlefield 2 Stats WordPress plugin, I’ve decided to implement true translation options for it.
However, since I don’t speak any language but English, I need people to translate it to different languages. So, if you you fluently speak another language (any language will do) and know English pretty well, please contact me!
This photo mosaic of Dick Cheney in full hunting garb is comprised of screenshots of several hundred news websites covering the story of his February 11, 2006 shooting of hunting companion Harry Whittington.
It’s pretty cool and you can find it here: http://www.urlyart.com/gallery/cheney-hunting
Found this online:
So I built a funky alarm clock out of an old Nintendo console. Why? Because I was at Value Village with my girlfriend and my sister, and while they were browsing through miles of clothing the only thing of interest I could find were two broken Nintendo units without paddles, and I had to do something with them.
Check it out here: http://www.mavrinac.com/projects/nesclock/
I’ve released a major update for my Battlefield 2 Stats WordPress plugin. Some of the new features in this version are…
If you are using an older version, it’s really suggested that you update. Oh, and thanks a bunch to DocSparky for testing a couple of beta versions of this plugin for me. It’s very much appreciated! 🙂
