Yesterday, Susan and I (and Susan’s parents, as well) saw Spider-Man 2. Awesome movie. I can’t remember the last time I went back to watch a movie in the theater for a second time, but we’re thinking about seeing this one again. Of course I have extra incentive to see it again, because I missed the opening sequence. We were running a few minutes late getting to the theater, but we got seated just as … Continue reading
Early this morning, a spammer flooded this site with around 20+ comment spams. Thanks to MooKitty‘s Spam Words Plugin, I was able to delete them all quickly, and ensure that the spammer will not be able to attempt spamming me again with any of the porn links he used in this morning’s attack. The spammer’s attack was interesting. There were two separate batches, but obviously the same person, because they all came from the same … Continue reading
Okay, where was I? Oh yes, I was going to poke my head out of the window for a minute to let you know what’s been going on in my life. I have relocated from Enterprise, Alabama to Woodstock, Georgia. I always felt like my old hometown was a friendly place, but I still can’t get over how nice everyone here in Woodstock is. I think that everyone we’ve met, without exception, has welcomed us … Continue reading
An old proverb says, “Every time God closes a door, He opens a window.” This is the last post I’ll make as a resident of Alabama. I’m about to leave my passkey on my manager’s desk, and take my last box of personal belongings out to my car. Then, I’m going to go meet my wife for lunch. By this evening, We’ll be full-time residents of Georgia. I’ll be back here for the occassional visit, … Continue reading
Mark Pilgrim was in the #wordpress IRC channel earlier, asking if there was some way to add <link> and <meta> tags to the <head> section of a page for specific posts. It seems he wants to control how various search engines and other bots index individual posts. I replied that he could do this using the custom fields feature. A short while later, I had written my first plugin for WordPress: HeadMeta: .ZIP, .tar.gz, .phps, … Continue reading
It’s been over two weeks since my last update. I’m sure that it’s been terribly distressing to the three people who actually read this site. My only excuse is that I’ve been insanely busy, because a lot of things have been going on. Here’s a quick brain dump, which may or may not be in chronological order: My wife and kids have already relocated to Georgia, but I’m still in Alabama, finishing out my employment … Continue reading
I’ve upgraded this site to WordPress 1.2. The process was quick and painless. It took me about 20 minutes, 15 of which was spent making a backup up my databases and my web directory. You won’t see any obvious changes on the site right now. But maybe sometime soon I’ll find time to start taking advantange of some of the new features, and adding some plugins.
Yesterday, Matt released WordPress 1.2 (nicknamed “Mingus”). The whole team put a lot of effort into this release. And I’m also proud that WP 1.2 includes a lot ideas and fixes contributed from the general community. I haven’t had a chance to upgrade this site yet, but I’m looking forward to doing so.
We finally found time to do some more work on Ping-O-Matic, and have implemented an XML-RPC interface. You can now send a standard weblogs.com compatible ping to http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ and we will ping a subset of our services. Currently, this is a fixed subset of seven services: Weblogs.com Blo.gs Technorati MyYahoo! BlogRolling BlogChatter PubSub In the future, we will have ways for you to customize which services you would like us to ping on your behalf. … Continue reading
In additon to the mention on Slashdot, there was another big event for WordPress yesterday: Mark Pilgrim switched. Mark cited the open nature of WordPress (as opposed to the restrictive licensing terms for Movable Type) as one of the primary motivators.