Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Category: Blog Software

  • Gravatars

    Probably I missed or didn’t understand the announcement. For the past month or so, I’ve noticed all these comments with the poster’s picture next to it on various blogs. I knew them to be WordPress blogs. I noticed my own WP had some default icon in the admin user interface. Today I finally put it…

  • WordPress Error: This file cannot be used on its own.

    In posting a comment to a friend’s WordPress blog, it came up with the error: Error: This file cannot be used on its own. I was responding to a comment, so I doubted that he broke his blog between making a comment and my response. So I went looking though my own install. Essentially, at…

  • Fixed Blogroll

    Apparently this WordPress template is ancient? It was using a really old call to display the blogroll. Modified the template to use wp_list_bookmarks and suddenly you can see the categories again.

  • Turn the Tables

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    CrossRoads Newsletter and Career Development Center: With corporate recruiters and executive search firms now using blogs as a prescreening tool for candidates, Whitcomb advises people to create online journals to demonstrate their skills, share their expertise, and lend potential employers insight into their personality. “You can write about projects you are working on, industry events,…

  • Another Day, Another Blog

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    Even though I have blogs at LJ, Xanga, MySpace, and Friendster, I had to try to ressucitate my old main blog for Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric.

  • Testing BlogJet

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    I have installed an interesting application – BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” — Pablo Picasso

  • Too Warm to Be Winter

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    I dunno. This thing is pretty kewl, but I am so used to Pitas. The having to switch views to write HTML can get really annoying really quick. It is faster though. Has lots of features. This is February… one would think that it is supposed to be, I don’t know… COLD maybe? Right… I feels…

  • Personal Site’s Logs

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    Took a look at my personal site‘s logs. Looks like I have 0.01% of 1 month’s data quota in serving stuff off of it in the 6 months I have had it. How lame? Of course, it does not exactly get a whole lot of traffic.

  • First Xanga

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    I love web logs. Especially ones that are convenient. Don’t you? My web page http://sneezypb.tripod.com/ is now updated…