Category Archives: General

Its one of those days

Its one of those days. I woke up feel­ing lousy, not look­ing for­ward to the stress echocar­dio­gram I have to take this after­noon. The test is to make sure my chest pains are not heart related but rather esophageal issues known I guess as Achalasia. The chest pain has been rather sever the past week

What’s Going On?

Not post­ing much here. I want to but have just not had any­thing to say lately. I have been con­tribut­ing to our church’s Web site http://www.flatlandchurch.com/teaching/ but that is about it. I did move this Web site to my new server at RackSpaceCloud. I will prob­a­bly post more on that later.  I have a bunch

Update

Yes, I haven’t been post­ing much lately. I have been busy at one level and lazy at a dif­fer­ent level. I have been shut-in most of the time due to all the snow and no vehi­cle that I can drive in it. The Mustang peeks out the garage and just refuses to move. As such,

I Need the Power

You will have noticed that the site was down for over a day. The Quad Cities got hit by a bad storm, knocked out the power and knocked out the power sup­ply on my server. Computer Team got it up and run­ning as soon as pos­si­ble and I appre­ci­ate it.[ed: snipped outdated info]

Site Update Tomorrow

Just a quick note to say that I will be upgrad­ing WordPress from 2.5.1 to 2.6 tomor­row. The site will be down tem­porar­ily while I do this but it should be back up fairly quickly, pro­vided no prob­lems occur.  At the time of the upgrade, I will be remov­ing Disqus com­ment capa­bil­i­ties from the blog.

Rights and Responsibilities of Bloggers and Commenters

I have been read­ing with great inter­est in the debate brought up by sev­eral peo­ple such as Hank Williams and now being dis­cussed on both the Disqus and Intense Debate web­sites regard­ing  “A Commenter’s Rights” and who owns the com­ments. I believe that there is a prob­lem with the dis­cus­sions. This is my perspective.

SnapShots Addition for an Interesting Experience

I just installed a nice lit­tle tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual pre­views of the des­ti­na­tion site, inter­ac­tive excerpts of Wikipedia arti­cles, Amazon prod­ucts, dis­play inline videos, RSS,  pho­tos, stock charts and more. Sometimes Snap Shots brings you the infor­ma­tion you need with­out leav­ing the site, while other times

Added Disqus for Better Comments

After lis­ten­ing to the lat­est Net@Night pod­cast #53 by Amber MacArther and Leo Laporte I decided to inves­ti­gate and then imple­ment the com­ment­ing sys­tem from Disqus (pro­nouced like dis­cuss). This will do a cou­ple things which I believe will ben­e­fit this site and those on it who wish to make com­ments. I am look­ing for