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    Jacked!

    Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

    OK, so one sign of not writing enough on your blog is having it highjacked and you don’t even notice. Bleh. Somewhere between May 27 and today (Jun 4), some nefarious party registered itself and inserted nasty code into one or more of my pages… possibly through comments. When I tried to [...]

    More Meta: Fancy Pull Quotes and Javascript Pull Quotes

    Monday, April 23rd, 2007

    In my never-ending quest to overload my WordPress installation with a billion gadgets, today I’m adding Fancy Pull Quote. Fancy pull quotes make any dumb monkey look like a Pulitzer Prize winner! But I’ve decided to run it head-to-head with JSPullQuotes, a javascript implementation, to see which I like more (= is more easily [...]

    Testing subscriptions 2

    Saturday, April 14th, 2007

    More testing, this time with the correct category.

    Testing subscriptions

    Saturday, April 14th, 2007

    You can just ignore this post — I’m trying a new feature.
    Where should I put the subscribe message?

    New Look, New Feature, Lots of New Newness

    Saturday, March 31st, 2007

    So… I’ve wanted a three-column theme for a while and for whatever reason, tonight’s the night I decided to get one. Mostly I want something that uses the real estate of my monitor more efficiently. I went with Anaconda and it seems pretty good. I’m still figuring out how to make it [...]

    Testing stats

    Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

    Today I found a plugin called Lightstats that compiles some WordPress statistics.

    Makeover for 2007

    Sunday, December 31st, 2006

    Yesterday I spent more time than really justified in playing around with the look-and-feel of The Mongrel Dogs Who Teach. It began innocently enough: I finally reached my breaking point on the comment spam, receiving two blocks of 48 spams within an hour. (And yes, they came in discrete quanta of 48. [...]