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Over the years, angry blog posts about spam is my most frequent blog post activity (well, until Twitter came out). I’ve been long resigned to scripted onslaughts of attempts to insert unwanted content into the comment space as a SFOL (Sad Fact of Life).
For the most part, I’ve had excellent luck with Spam [...]

I’ve tried for months to get the WordPress PodPress plugin to behave- on multiple sites it just plum refuses to embed the player in the page. Every option is set to display the player, I can see it in the source, and it fails. And it seems like it gets upgraded once a week, [...]

I just got self distracted, not in twittter, but twiddling here with the blog. For quite some time, I have rigged together a ‘Page’ in WordPress that uses a RSS feed with info on all the presentations I’ve done going back to 2003. This was generated by sending the feed to the Feed2JS site to [...]

I sat down to the computer tonight to take care of some quick tasks. What a cool surprise in that one of by blog run projects, the NMC Virtual Worlds site got included in a list of “Truly Unique and Outstanding Blogs” (Ouch, sounds a bit like a 5% Point thang).
Taking a peek at [...]

While I was not blogging here last week did not mean I was not spitting posts elsewhere For my planned trip next October to Australia, I took Nancy’s Chocolate laced advice to blog the trip by setting up on WordPress.com yet another blog outlet, CogDogRoo.
My plan is to not only blog the trip, [...]

Here is a cheap but useful trick for you WordPress bloggers- don’t sap your readers with 10 mile long URLs.
If you use the Permalink option to publish your posts based on the date, time, generally it turns a long title blog post like above into something horrible like:
http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/14/pimp-up-your-wordpress-guru
-status-trimming-those-long-title-posts-with-slugs
That is butt ugly and pretty much says [...]

It was time to make the run to upping this WordPress site to the current version, 2.1, nicknamed “Ella”. Hey, it is jazzy! There are promises of better code under the hood and some new features I’ve yet to really look much into.
I’m pretty religious about following the upgrade instructions, backing up the static [...]

The CogDogBlog has been un-snapped.
Back in December I experimented with adding the capability offered by Snap.com that with some additional calls to a remote JavaScript library in your blog templates, it adds a small web site preview when you mouse-over a link external from your site.
I found it interesting, sometimes in the way when [...]

Hang on to your full content news feeds, this post might be a long one. I hope to try and document the under the hood as well as some of the exterior chrome work on a new site NMC just unveiled this week. This is as much for my records as anything.
But first, start with [...]

After reading, Quentins nicely shared post of the WordPress plugins used on his site (and more shared in the comments), I thought, “Great idea! Let’s go into borrow mode!”.
And it made sense to build one of those, um, colo– colofuns, coloph…. oh what the heck, Blog Bits, that describes some info about what’s under the [...]