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WP Upgrade

I’m about to do the upgrade to WP 1.2.1 – hopefully nothing gets munged. (Thanks to Michael adding that new word to my vocab today!). If you see anything wonky – it’s because it got munged and I need to unmunge it. Munge. Munge. Munge.

Power Lined

Forget about being Instalaunched – – that is SO yesterday! Last night, I was Power Lined – – and the hits keep rollin’ in – on last glance, I averaged about 5,500 hits since about 10pm last night . I’ve been ‘Instalaunched’ a few times over at Right Voices, and I have to say that Glenn Reynolds has some competition with those boys over at Power Line. Who knew a little ol’ t-shirt could cause …

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WordPress Weather Plugin

Too many people to count have emailed me asking where I got the weather plugin that I’ve displayed over there in my side menu. I’ve responded to each and every single one of them – but, I figure because of the popularity of this script – – I’d make a post and provide the link. So here it is I did, however, edit the weather.php script to change how it’s displayed on my site, because …

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Tunes!

Chelle turned me onto a great music plugin for WordPress. I used to use blogamp, a lifetime ago – but took it off shortly after because it was wonky and I didn’t like the way it displayed. This plugin uses Audioscrobble and you can use it with most any music player : WinAmp, Windows Media Player, iTunes, Foobar, etc. It displays the last 10 tunes you’ve played (by default). You can view mine on the …

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More on the Spam Monster

Well, yesterday, I got over 3000+ pieces of spam from that little monster. He has program that is automated to just keep hitting your wp-comments-post.php every 2-3 seconds, dropping the email in. WordPress has great comment spam protection – – however, it moderates the spam, which is great when it’s someone dropping one or two spam comments. But, when you have someone who is using a program like Python to automate the spam, bypass the …

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