Category: Blogging

  • Pardon Our Dust: Rebuilding for 2026

    Thank you so much for visiting! I really appreciate you stopping by. Just a quick heads-up: the site is currently under construction and will be finished after the holidays. I’m in the middle of rebuilding everything and migrating back to WordPress as my content management system after spending about a year running the site on…

  • Day One: Firefox as My Default Browser (Dammit!)

    When love and hate collide.

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  • A Simple Bookmarking Service for Link Sharing

    Surely there must be a bookmarking service that allows simple, fast link saving, and, through a properly built RSS feed, sharing.

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  • WhiteList Spam Attacks Threaten Blogs and Email

    Spammers are employing a new tactic to attack blogs, and it’s a tactic that could bring down anti-spam measures protecting not only the Blogosphere, but e-mail too. Blog spammers are attacking blogs with their typical messages, but they have a new, ingenious, and potentially catastrophic trick. They’re incorporating links to legitimate, respectable domains into those…

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  • WordPress 1.5 Installed

    Well, it’s installed. The site runs, though a few things are different. Some of the plugins used with WP 1.2, for instance, have not been updated to function with WP 1.5. Even some of those that have, have not been updated well. PageNavi is one such plugin–at the bottom of every page used to be…

  • Upgrading to WordPress 1.5

    At this very moment I’m upgrading to WordPress 1.5. While it’s an upgrade I’ve been contemplating for a while, it was one I had intended to put off for another month or two–at least until after I had finished writing my books and launched two new websites I have in the works. Regrettably, I don’t…

  • Blog Design: Watch Your Width

    For a moment, I am going to dip into web design to illustrate why Deep Green Crystals is an example of extraordinarily bad blog design. More accurately, I am not dipping into web design; I am illuminating basic facts about readability, for the web or anywhere. In doing some research about tags and services like…

  • Back In Blog

    Back in blog I hate to say it It’s been too long I’m high on the hog Yes I’m let loose From Interland‘s noose That’s kept me hangin’ on hold I’ve keep lookin’ at the stats ‘Cause they’re gettin’ way high Forget InterNIC ’cause it’ll never die I’ve got six sites blog sites Usin’ every…

  • iamPariah.com Will Return in January

    After the first of the year I Am Pariah.com, The Memes List, and the Saturday Slant will all be back up and running at breakneck pace. They will be running off a brand new WordPress installation, on a fast, reliable server. They will run on the same servers that currently power QuarkVSInDesign.com. I hope you’ll…

  • Blog… Crumbling… MT… Dying…

    This blog and the Saturday Slant will be down for a couple of weeks because Movable Type is falling apart. The software on which blog runs, Movable Type running off a SQL database, is crumbling. It’s dying, a piece at a time. Comments died some weeks ago, preventing anyone–including me–from posting comments. Now, it’s a…