Now Reading
Planned books:
- The Dark River (Fourth Realm Trilogy, Book 2) by John Twelve Hawks
- A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston
- Feed (Newsflesh, Book 1) by Mira Grant
Current books:
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In His Majesty’s Service by Naomi Novik
Recent books:
- Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
- Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert
- The Copywriter’s Handbook, Third Edition: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells by Robert W. Bly
- The Traveler (Fourth Realm Trilogy, Book 1) by John Twelve Hawks
- Jonathan Strange by Susanna Clarke
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Category Archives: Site News
Sorry About the Downtime
Sorry if you tried to access the site from last night to this morning. Last night the host had a server problem so it was down for a [..]
Back Online
As you can see, I am back online. I think the total downtime was less than 30 minutes, mostly to wait for my FTP client to delete all [..]
Site Down This Weekend for a Couple of Hours
The site should be down for a couple hours some time this weekend for maintenance.
Comment Spam
While upgrading the site, I had to turn of Akismet for a few minutes, in that time 2 comment spams slipped through. In the short time it has [..]
WordPress 2.0.5 302 Not Found Error
I recently upgraded to WordPress 2.0.5 but kept getting the following error: 302 Found The document has moved here. Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered [..]
Theme Change
It might not look too differant, but the theme changed. I stopped using Canvas, a great plugin for WordPress and started using the Tarski theme directly. The newer [..]
Test Your Reflexes Removed and Get IE 7
I had a link so you could test your reflexes in a JavaScript game. However, the game was causing Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7), which I just downloaded, [..]
Site Updated
I updated some things on the back end here, but that update caused a few things to break. Namely the Amazon Wishlist and Asides are broken. I have [..]
Title Case
I am trying to move to a constant Title Case here. Basically, all titles should have their first and last word capitalized, and capitalize all other words except [..]
More on Tags
You will notice the tag cloud, just below the Flickr pictures in the sidebar. These replace the old categories that I used before. You will also notice that [..]
Tag Editing
I am adding the parent category to each sub-category. For example, Lost is under TV Shows, but most of the Lost posts are tagged Lost only, not TV [..]
Tags Coming
Selected posts from this point forward may include more tags (see below the post where it says tags). I am not 100% sure on that yet though as [..]
New Theme, New Plugin, More Kick A**!
I am trying out a new plugin for WordPress called Canvas. This may change things more drastically than the introduction of widgets for the sidebar. I can’t even [..]
More Editing Now Reading Code
With the theme I am using, the sidebar got stuck below the content. Now the sidebar is aligned along the top with the content. I also had to [..]
Now Reading List Updated
I have updated my Now Reading list (to the right), with more books, and reviews. Most notably is the addition of the Dark Tower series.
This Site Is Worth…
LeapFish values this site at a base value of $255.00 with an actual value of $10,838.00. While Business Opportunities values it at $564.54, based largely on Technorati results. [..]
The Bear Witch Project
More of a test of a the Extreme Video Plug-in for WordPress than anything else. Anyhow, this is a parody of The Blair Witch Project staring The Muppets. [..]
Family History Page Back
The family history page is back. I am not accepting user accounts at this time, and if you had one before, sorry but it was lost when I [..]
Text Improvement
I modified the CSS for the site, so the text should be easier to read. It seemed a bit small before, especially inline code. The inline code was [..]
Truly Odd Bug
I am not sure if it is a WordPress thing, a Firefox/IE bug, something with my computer, or what. For some reason none of my links to GeSHi [..]