Colo.. Coloph… What Makes this Blog Tick

I don’t regularly use high falutin’ words like “colophon”, so here are this here blog’s kibbles and bits that make it hum (sometimes there is some indigestion).

Blogistory

  • April 13, 2003 - Blog first appears running in MovableType 2.661, running on an Apple XServe at Maricopa, — this site now archived at http://cogdogblog.com/alan
  • April 26, 2005 - Blog migrated to WordPress 1.5, some 800+ entries carried with it as http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cdb/, see Internet Archive
  • July 20, 2005 - Thanks to a suggestion from Steve Dembo, I registered the domain cogdogblog.com as a shorthhand URL.
  • January 5, 2006 - The blog, posts, stock and barrel, were moved from a server at Maricopa to some free hosting offered by Audree (wonder if she knew the traffic she was getting into?) This was a fortunate move, as at the time I did not know I’d be leaving Maricopa in April
  • December 18, 2006 - Do to malicious traffic, Audree was forced to boot me from her server (she was very nice about it, and I understood), so I signed up for hosting at DreamHost, who are just awesome.

WordPress Nuggets

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Plugins used include:

  • Dunstan’s Time Since Displays in human language how much time has passed since a post was published, “This entry was posted 6 days, 8 hours ago”
  • Jerome’s Keywords Allows keywords to be associated with each post. Not very optimal, Bunny’s Technorati tag stopped working for me; need to look into Ultimate Tag Warrior.
  • Optimal Title Allows <title>…</title> content to put the title first and blog name last, not as “good” if you are after search engine points, but of more use to web site taggers.
  • podPress The ultimate podcast feed creator, I might use it more if I had anything interesting to say audibly.
  • Preserve Code Formatting — allows source code to be displayed as HTML in <pre>…</pre> tags without needing to convert codes, not interpreted as HTML
  • Recent Comments — alows display if recent comments to front page sidebar.
  • Related Posts Displays a list of the related entries based on keyword matches.
  • Spam Karma 2 Ultimate Spam Killer; please bow reverently toward Dr Dave. I would not blog without this protection. Ask my spammers.
  • Site Statistics displays the stats shown above.
  • Subscribe To Comments Lets readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry
  • Taragana’s Del.icio.us mp3 Player Plugin Makes any mp3 link (in post or page or any other location) playable directly on your webpage via s small flash player.
  • Tiger Style Administration Converts the admin area to something more modern in terms of layout and style.
  • WordPress Database Backup back up, and backup often.

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and may be patrolled by a friendly small dog (with a wagging tail)
This means you are free to use any original content published here (begs the question why)
as long as you provide linktribution.

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