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
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 [..]
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