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
I Modified GeSHi’s C# File
As noted before, to post code in WordPress, I use the ig:Syntax Hiliter plugin. It uses the GeSHi engine. I recently decided to modify the way it colors [..]
Lost Posts Lost
It seems the posts that are missing are indeed Lost. No idea what happened to them. I can’t find it at Technorati, the Wayback Machine, and while I [..]
Book Reviews Done
The Now Reading books have now been reviewed. Clicking the book will take you to that book’s page, which has it’s review and rating.
Now Reading
I just added another cool plugin/widget. It allows me to add books to a Now Reading list. It doesn’t handle short term items like DVDs and music. It [..]
Theme Change
I have changed the theme I use here. It is a design originally by Andreas Viklund and ported by Ainslie Johnson, it is called WP-Andreas09 and makes use [..]
My Google Page Rank
The site’s main page has a Google rank of 4, while the Battlestar Galactica category page has a rank of 7. I would guess specific articles around the [..]
Date Format Fixed
I fixed the problem with the date not showing the way I wanted to. It seems the theme I am using overrode the setting in WordPress itself. I [..]
Comment Spam Getting Out of Control
The comment spam is getting out of control! I had over 70 comment spams yesterday alone. So I have installed the Akismet plugin, which in theory should make [..]
Date Format Change
I have been using the dd mm yyyy format, but now I am going to have things change to a dd Month yyyy format… hopefully. The change did [..]
Code Highlighting
I have finally found a code highlighter that works well in WordPress 2.x. iG:Syntax Hiliter makes use of the
Family Tree May Go Back Up
The family tree, which was taken down to security issues with the program used to display it, may go back up soon as they recently released a new [..]
We Sell Books via Amazon
It looks like Sara and I are not the only ones buying stuff from Amazon via this site. A huge big thank you to everyone who, when buying [..]
Date Format
This site uses the little endian (DD-MM-YYYY) date format, just in case the dates on the posts look odd. I may switch to ISO 8601 format (big endian, YYYY-MM-DD). I explain it all more in the post. Read more
Excerpts Added to First of the Year
I am trying to add excerpts to some of the old posts, and new ones from now on. I am not sure, but I think what you read in the RSS feed isn't the full post, but what it says, just an excerpt. We'll see I guess.
Yes... If you are reading this in an RSS reader, you are not getting the full post. However, if you click the post title, it should take you to the full post. At least it does in FeedDemon. Read more
Umm… Where Did That Post Go?
Changes to the back end may have made the URLs of some of the posts move recently. Read more
More on the Hacker Attack
A worm called SunTzu attacked my phpGedView installation and allowed a hacker into WordPress. More details in the full post and comments. Read more
Flickr
The Flickr rss feed was taken offline for a while. It was put back online the next day. Read more
Genealogy Pages Gone
Due to a hacker attack, the phpGedView page was taken down. Read more