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
Section 508, finally
I finally fixed a PHP bug that was stopping this site from validating as Section 508 compliant. Now I just need to chase down the XHTML Strict validation [..]
I am number one
This site is now the number one search result for “Brian A. Thomas” in Google. How long that lasts is anyones guess.
Spell checker
A spell checker has been added, so hopefully most of the spelling errors will be caught from now on.
Comment Spam
The spammers already found the comment section of my site. As I need to aprove the comments before they get posted, you won’t have to put up with [..]
Site facts
As of today, 96.8% of the people who visit this site visit us directly from the favorites/bookmark, or type it in directly. 1.3% get here via a serach [..]
PHPitfalls: Five Beginner Mistakes to Avoid
Mistakes. Everybody makes them. Daryl L. L. Houston points out several common beginner blunders and how to get past them.…excerpt from: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/phpitfalls/ Just testing out blogging from FeedDemon [..]
Blogroll links.
To the side, you will now see a bunch of stuff called Blogroll – something. These are the sights that I subscribe to using FeedDemon, or visit otherwise [..]
Wishlist fix.
The wishlist search to the side was searching just the first two pages of the wishlist, seems I missed setting an option in the code. It’s fixed now, [..]
Comments
You will notice the comments section is back. A few things to note about it. Comments need approved before they will appear online. I still haven’t found a [..]
Some old posts imported.
Some of the old posts were imported in. The others will have to wait until I can manually move them in.
Site’s look.
Oh, before I go to bed, a note about the way the site looks. As I noted, this is the default look of almost everything. I did change [..]
Old posts & off to bed.
It may be a few days before I can import the old posts. Anyhow… I am off to bed now.
Family History page back up
The Family History page is back up.
Genealogy update
A long time ago, I used PhpGedView to help display family history information, but when I was upgrading to the newest version, it crashed and I uninstalled it. [..]
Goodnight…
I know, I said goodnight earlier, but I had a bug to fix… still here…. grrr I hate Radio Userland…
Radio Userland Woes
Have I said how much I hate Radio Userland lately? This is the program I use to post to this blog…. I can’t wait to start using WordPress.
CNN.com ranks us number one and two in search for Schwarzenegger “Speach”
Wow, we are the number one and number two site on CNN.com for people looking for Schwarzenegger’s Speech at the GOP Convention, depending on the exact wording of [..]
Moving to WordPress…. someday…
I have decided to start making a move to WordPress as my blogging system. For one, it is better then Radio Userland, which I currently use, and most [..]
The accessible Brian A. Thomas .com update
Okay, what about the accessible, validated, table free version of this site? I haven’t had the time to really work on the test page in a while. Apologies. [..]
Website update
The new web design is undergoing testing at the moment. This is the CSS, table free layout, that will be fully W3C XHTML certified. I made some changes [..]