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14+ Awesome WordPress-powered sites

7/16/2007 – 10:54 am

WeLoveWP.com highlights great looking WordPress sites, and it’s powered by WordPress, too!

From time to time, someone will hear that I’m involved with WordPress, and ask me a few questions about it. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Design, Development, Web Design, WordPress | Also tagged Business, CSS, Microsoft, Sites, WordPress | Comments (83)

Customer Service, Bad and Good

3/7/2007 – 1:21 pm

This is a little story about customer service. It’s about bad customer service, and it’s about good customer service. It’s about how a customer service rep should make sure that he really knows the answer to a question before spouting off, and if he isn’t sure, he should ask someone else.

The dramatis personae in this little skit are Comcast and Tivo. Comcast will be playing the role of bad customer service, and Tivo is cast in the role of the hero. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Personal | Also tagged Comcast, DVR, Programming, Service, Television, Tivo | Comments (7)

Alabama Tornadoes

3/2/2007 – 5:51 pm

Many of you are probably currently familiar with hearing about the tornado that hit Enterprise, Alabama yesterday. What you might not realize is that my wife and I both graduated from the high school that was leveled in that storm system. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Family, Personal, The South | Also tagged Alabama, Feeds, Google, RSS, Tornado, Tornadoes, Weather, Wiregrass | Comments (9)

AOL and OpenID

2/15/2007 – 1:31 pm

Here’s an addendum for my previous post about OpenID: AOL supports OpenID authentication for all(?) screennames. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in OpenID | Also tagged AIM, AOL, Identity, Microsoft, SingleSignOn, SSO, Technorati | Comments (3)

Follow you, follow me

2/15/2007 – 12:42 pm

Two years ago today, we released WordPress version 1.5. This was a pretty major release that introduced several new features that are still major staples of the current 2.1 branch: the Dashboard, Themes, and Pages. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogging, Microformats, Plugins, Search, Spam, WordPress | Also tagged Akismet, commentspam, Google, Metadata, nofollow, PageRank, plugin, Spam, WordPress | Comments (69)

OpenID News

2/13/2007 – 2:01 pm

Since my WordPress upgrade and theme change, the OpenID sign-on functionality here has been a little iffy. I think I’ve got all the kinks worked out now, and it should be working correctly again. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Microformats, OpenID, Services, Standards, Tech, Themes, WordPress | Also tagged FOAF, hCard, Identity, Microsoft, PHP, plugin, Sandbox, SingleSignOn, SSO, Web, WordPress | Comments (4)

Contact

2/7/2007 – 5:04 pm

How do I get in touch with you?

Pick your poison:

Email: dougal@gunters.org
Jabber: dougal@gunters.org
MSN Messenger: dougal_passport@gunters.org
AIM: EMCampbell3
ICQ: UIN: 1223172
Yahoo! IM: EMCampbell3
SourceForge: emc3@users.sf.net

Or, you can use this handy-dandy web form:

And don’t forget — I accept donations…

By Dougal | Posted in Whatever | Comments Off

How to revamp Yahoo! Groups?

3/28/2006 – 12:23 pm

Jeremy Zawodny has some thoughts about the possible evolution of Yahoo! Groups.

There are bits of JotSpot (notable Tracker), WordPress, and Flickr that I think could be sprinkled into Yahoo Groups, not to mention Google Maps and/or Wayfaring, Yahoo! Local, Google Calendar, and a few other things.

Jeremy is a sharp guy who keeps his finger close to the pulse of current happenings on the net. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Community, Services | Also tagged Business, Google, Web, WordPress | Comments (0)

Six Rules for Driving

1/12/2006 – 12:24 pm

If you are going to share the road with me, here are some rules that I expect you to know:

Don’t tailgate me.

If you tailgate me, I’ll slow down. Unless you try to pass me, in which case, I might speed up. And if we’re in a no-passing zone, I’ll slow down more. [...]