Archive for February, 2005

Upgrade to WordPress 1.5

  • February 27th, 2005
  • Posted in geek
  • By Drew

For quite some time I had been running this blog under a build of WordPress that was someplace between their now previous release 1.3 and the current 1.5. The team made 1.5 official back on the 14th, I only noticed Friday, which lead to a late night of copying, installing, tweaking, etc. One Related posts:

  1. WP 2.8.3 & Elegant Box theme
  2. Web site changes
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What a strange day

…more like a strange week. Sitting here tired before noon. Of all days this I do not expect. Tuesday, after coming home late from gaming I could understand, Wednesday after going out to see a movie (happy birthday Matt) would make sense. Thursday would be odd though, after crashing out at Related posts:

  1. Serenity
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Spam wars

  • February 22nd, 2005
  • Posted in geek
  • By Drew

After my last change to this blog the Spammers just kept coming. So a more substantial solution was needed. The captcha and referrer checking were not enough… Enter Spam Karma. As of today it has eaten 21 comment-spam attempts. A successful addition I would have to say. Of course the Related posts:

  1. Our first comment spam
  2. Spam spam eggs and spam…
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Pour Some Sugar on Me

  • February 19th, 2005
  • Posted in Music
  • By Meg

Okay… For ages Drew has wanted me to write an ‘Album of the week’ review on here. Music has had a HUGE impact on my life and certain songs can evoke memories like nothing else for me. My very first review will be of “Hysteria” by Def Leppard. First of all… Related posts:

  1. Hot August night
  2. Blog this…
  3. Update on the family
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Wheels of change, the grind of time

I recently read that Ben has left the Navy. Ben was one of my better friends from when I was in the service. We lost touch after I left the Navy – my coming back to the world – some six odd years ago. I hope civilian life is what he Related posts:

  1. A few more peeves
  2. Ten things…
  3. No pun intended
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