Apparently I am being chastised over in the comments of Avoiding Responsibility. There are claims that my blog is dead. Would you agree?
Sure I haven’t posted much lately, but it’s Quality over Quantity right?
Oh… wait… I guess that only works if you have Quality also.
Dang… I think I will write Haiku’s instead. 
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Well it’s official, I am now in the WordPress Hosting business. My company, SliverNet, that I am a partner in, is now offering blog hosting using WordPress for only $4.95 a month. Not a bad deal if you ask me. So if you are reading this and you don’t have a blog yet (you know who you are), get off the stick and go and sign up now.
Thanks to Jill, I now have 4 banners for the ‘Earth’ theme I’ve been working on. I slapped a little code in there to randomly choose 1 of the 4 to be displayed. See if you can figure out the hidden meaning of the banners and I’ll give you a free Gmail account… or I’ll just give you one if you ask, I have 50 for crying out loud.
So I’ve began making a new theme. I call it ‘Earth’. Don’t know why, I guess because it has some “earthy” tones to it. You can watch my progress if you would like by using the theme-switcher. Not all of my links and pages are are integrated into it yet so look out for “under construction” behavior.
Thanks to the WordPress Plugin Repository I now have a “Theme Switcher”. Currently there are only the two defaults and my “Whoppers” theme. But I think I’m going to start making a few of these. Maybe if they’re good enough, someone out there will even want to use it.
Update: I added a bunch of themes that I found. They need a little tweaking to get my site name in them. But I’ll get to that when I can.
I just upgrade WordPress to 1.5. Overall, wasn’t very hard to do. I did have to turn off a couple functions that seem to have changed (ie recent comments and recent entries). But I’m sure there are some logical replacements for those, I just need to figure them out.
One of the biggest differences is the fact that there are templates now. So rather than editing the live index file, I can create a seperate template to mess with and not screw up what already works. So maybe it is time for a change. I’ll have to do some thinking now.
Update: I fixed the two functions that I mentioned didn’t work. So now I think everyting is working.
Well.. I am trying another trick to cut down on the amount of comment spam I’ve been getting. You are now required to type in a security code from a graphic when you post the comment. We’ll see how well that works out. I don’t know how smart these spammers are, maybe they can read those graphics. But I’ll try whatever I can to stop them.
In an ongoing effort to thwart the rising influx of comment spam, I have installed Spam Karma. Hopefully this plugin makes my need to moderate less. The built-in comment spam tools in WordPress are lacking. I had to basically delete it myself. But this Spam Karma looks to be more promising.
I’ll let you know.