Random thoughts and observations
I received an email from The Blogger Team saying one of my sites had been marked as an evil spam blog. The email urged me to request a review if I disputed the classification and went on to say: “Your blog will be deleted in 20 days if it isn’t reviewed, and your readers will [...]
I installed the Better Blogroll plugin for WordPress tonight. You can see it working in the sidebar. The plugin enables users to display a configurable number of random links. I’ve never used the WordPress links feature much, but plan to change that now. I was concerned about creating long blogrolls that nobody would ever read, [...]
I’m experimenting with a self-hosted Twitter-style multi-user blog at www.shortsay.com. It uses a modified version of the P2 theme. Anyone can login using their webmail or Facebook account to post or comment. The experiment is because I like the short post format, but feel Twitter has some limitations. I opened my Twitter account on March [...]
It was a quiet weekend, not much happening. I’ll be a taxi driver again soon enough once the hockey and soccer seasons get under way. In no particular order, these are some random musings and personal news items: I’m reading Stewart Cockburn’s biography of Sir Thomas Playford. The subtitle is “Benevolent despot” which gives you [...]
Thanks to Delmer, who got it from Nancy, this “Google Game” is a blog prompt. Go to Google and type in quotation marks your name and then “likes to” (eg “Steve likes to”). Type in the first 10 things that come up and repost in your own note.
