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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Tag Archives: Site News
Odd Firefox 3 Bug on This Site
If you are using Firefox 3, such as we are, some parts of this site are may not rendering properly. None of the videos are showing up. They [..]
Individual Posts Not Showing Up
Not sure what the problem is yet, but if you click on an individual post title, or the More link, it doesn’t work. Even on ones I knew [..]
Now 33rd in Google for Nelson, New Zealand Blog Searches
EDIT: As I jumped from 33rd to 1st, this isn’t a Nelson, New Zealand Blog… at least yet. So if you are searching Google or whatever, ignore this [..]
Tag Cloud On Sidebar Gone
I got rid of the Tag Cloud on the sidebar to the right. It is still available on the Tag Cloud page and I may bring it back. [..]
Context Links
If you see something with a double underline, that is a context link, and not a link I manually generated. Context links are generated by Amazon to help [..]
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 [..]
STICKY: I Am Not a Spammer
STICKY POST: New posts appear below this one. If you have gotten Spam from brianathomas.com, please read below the break. The short of it is, it isn’t us [..]
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 [..]
Stay up to Date with this Site
Stay up to date with this site. Don’t have the time visit Brian A. Thomas .com on a daily basis to look for updates? Well, as I have [..]