The One With Aldacron

The first post on this blog is dated January 15, 2006. At the end of the first year, I posted a retrospective, fully intending to make it an annual event. But the second and third anniversaries passed by without any comment. I had so much going on on both occasions that it completely slipped my [...]

I’m having fun playing around with the new theme. It’s got a plethora of settings to toy with, plus options for updating PHP/HTML/CSS without modifying the source files directly. This makes it possible to retain settings after updating to a newer version of the theme. It also comes with several custom widgets. I’ve had a [...]

I’ve been insulted and called a lot of different names in comments on a few posts here, mostly those involving piracy. The post titled Regcure Key, which attracts hordes of software pirates looking to steal a copy of RegCure, is the most commented post on the blog (unfortunately, I lost several entertaining comments from that [...]

I’ve finally managed to get a successful upgrade to a very recent version of WordPress. After the last failed attempt, I decided to go about it differently. I’ll tell you what I did in case you run into trouble in the future. First, I went into the admin panel to the manage menu and exported [...]

It’s been two months since I attempted, and failed, to successfully upgrade the blog. That attempt was, IIRC, with WordPress 2.5. Last night I gave it a go with the latest in the 2.6 series. I wound up with the same error I ran into last time. There was no problem viewing the blog, but [...]

One of the downsides of installing widely-used blog software is the phenomenal amount of spam it attracts. I’m using a good spam package on all of my blogs, but now and again a batch of comments get flagged for moderation because they don’t score enough points for automatic removal to the spam bin. They’re generally [...]

I attempted to upgrade to the most recent version of WordPress a few days back, but something was borked. The site worked fine for visitors, but I was unable to log in to the admin panel. I let it go for a few days while I tried to find a fix. Several Google searches and [...]

If you’re looking to increase the number of your atheist blog subscriptions, a good place to start is this list from Challenge Religion. It’s a daily list of top atheist blogs. Two of the blogs I subscribe to are in the top 25. Many of the rest I’ve never heard of. One is conspicuously absent, [...]

In celebration of his site’s anniversary, Darren Rowse is giving away $54,000 in cash and prizes as part of the ProBlogger Birthday Bash. The list of prizes is rather enticing. The prizes are given away through several different ‘competitions’ over the course of this week. Head on over and check it out. If a prize [...]

I enjoy blogging. It’s great fun to be able to write about whatever I feel like, when I feel like, in any manner I want. I have no editors asking me to rewrite certain passages, no one questioning how offensive something may be before it is published. I don’t have to worry about being thrown [...]