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speaking of stripped

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

If you want to really check out stripped down, check out my tumblog: divconspiracy.tumblr.com It's sort of the 'best of' my twitters (minus the @replies), my google reader shared items, and links to my blog posts. Sometimes I'll even post directly there if it's something short. Brian Bailey had at one point ...

stretching out

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

Aaahhh, that's better. I'm stretching out a bit here, changing things up with the theme. I was going to try to totally strip it like Ben Arment has been calling for, but I ended up with another theme that kinda looks like my old one, but a little bit simpler. ...

wordpress 2.3 is coming

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Oh boy, I think I feel an upgrade coming on. Wordpress 2.3 is being released on Septmber 24th, a mere 3 days from now. If i'm not too tired Monday night I might do the upgrade and see what it's like. You probably won't notice much different, but I will. ...

not quite perfect

Friday, September 7th, 2007

I really like the tools that Alex King has created for WordPress. Twitter Tools lets you show your Twitter posts in the sidebar and to post to Twitter from your blog. Share This puts a nice little popup beneath each post to allow your users to share the link on ...

why blogfriends?

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

this is why: Do I know David Marriott? No. But I went to his blog because it looked interesting to me. Based on my interests and friends of friends' blogs, this came up. If you want people to discover and read your blog, this is one great way to do it, ...

why my videos will be on vimeo

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

So almost as quick as I started a YouTube account, I'm abandoning it. Well, not exactly, but I'm not going to be posting a lot of recent videos there. You see, I'm concerned about privacy, and about my children. Now, it may seem that personal blogging and privacy are pretty ...

one year later

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Well, yesterday marked the one year point of my blog, and if you asked me to reflect on what I've learned in the past year, it would mostly be that writing takes time, and thoughtful writing takes time, reflection, and lots of editing. I've learned that setting up a blog ...