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Introducing ME SMASH!

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A friend of mine, and regular commenter here on A Random Act of Blogging, decided to finally bite the bullet and thrust his ideas onto the rest of Internet society. ME SMASH! is the result of his ramblings. Take a look and help him increase his traffic. Let him know what you like and don’t like (if you don’t like, I didn’t send you there). Here is a little clip of what you may find:

In the beginning…there was the internet and it was good. Then we hot aired humans decided to fill it up with all sorts of nonsensical drib drab. Since I’m one of the most winded individuals I know I figure it’s time I showed the internet world just how bad my chronic case of diarrhea of the lips really is. Me SMASH! is my means of torturing my friends and family. It’s also an evil experiment designed to prove humans are in fact not logical.

Dead Blog?

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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. :)

Random Banners

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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.

Earth Theme

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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.

Theme Switcher

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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.

WordPress Upgrade

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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.

Comment Spam

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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.