Category Archives: meta

Echos of Sins Past

Posted on 2008 July 27 by mongreldogs

Regular readers of this blog, were there any, would know that in early June, The Mongrel Dogs That Teach was high-jacked by people of malicious intent who inserted “invisible” code into my text to direct people to infected sites and … Continue reading →

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Jacked!

Posted on 2008 June 4 by mongreldogs

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 … Continue reading →

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More Meta: Fancy Pull Quotes and Javascript Pull Quotes

Posted on 2007 April 23 by mongreldogs

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 … Continue reading →

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Testing subscriptions 2

Posted on 2007 April 14 by mongreldogs

More testing, this time with the correct category.

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Testing subscriptions

Posted on 2007 April 14 by mongreldogs

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

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New Look, New Feature, Lots of New Newness

Posted on 2007 March 31 by mongreldogs

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 … Continue reading →

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Testing stats

Posted on 2007 January 31 by mongreldogs

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

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Makeover for 2007

Posted on 2006 December 31 by mongreldogs

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 … Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on 2006 June 12 by mongreldogs

Welcome to The Mongrel Dogs Who Teach, my little experiment in blogging. This will be updated approximately every “whenever I feel like it” and will likely be about as erratic as I am. If you’re interested, the experiment is, “Can … Continue reading →

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