Category: VAULT Information

Showing someone how to make a post in WordPress.  Please ignore.

I typed this post on an iPhone. I am going to have to get me one of these.

I was amazed to find that when my blog went offline; people actually e-mailed me to ask when it would be back. I discovered more readers in the last few weeks than I was aware of in the last few years. Thanks everybody! I appreciate the kind words and comments.

The reason that I went down was due to the need to switch hosts to someone a little more…. well… sane. If anyone is in need of a good hosting service; I cannot speak well enough of Hostmonster.com! Oh, and if you have the options; stay away from iPowerWeb.

While I was fixing the website I updated the wine list with three new wines. Two reds and a wonderful white Riesling.

This is just a post. Currently I am writing it from with-in the Google Docs & Spreadsheets application. The reason I am trying it out is that it looks like a useful way to add blog posts, that I can publish outside my blog, with a built-in spell checker. So here we go:

Testing… testing… one.. two.. three..

Just in case I ever need to write one, here is a simple how-to on writing a letter of resignation.

Because of problems with comment spam and a busted blacklist filter (it is actually so full that I cannot get it to run) I have to disable comments on my blog for a while. We are actively working on switching to another CMS. One that has better blacklist support and is open source. I hope it will be soon enough that I will not need to try and fix the blacklist filter for this old busted-ass version of MT.

Congratulations to Arch and Meerie on the birth of their first child, Maximilian.  I tell you, everyone seems to be having babies.

Sorry for the lack of updates this last couple of weeks. Work has been oppressively busy lately and this week my wife left town on a school trip. I have taken the week off to spend with my daughter. Emily has done a superb job of keeping me exceedingly busy; in fact this is only the second time I have been on the computer this week. Something approaching a sacrilege for me.

For anyone who has tried to post a comment; I got spammed by about 250 junk comments (œcome try our blackjack/Viagra/porn/black exploitation movies at etc.. etc.. etc..) over the course of the last 3 days. I changed my settings to require non-anonymous logins to stop the flood until I found a better solution. Although some people may not consider login required comments to be a serious inconvenience; I myself do (as can be verified by seeing that I don’t actually login to make my own comments on my own blog) and have, as such, worked to find a suitable solution. That solution has been found. And so by the time I finish this post anonymous comments should be enabled again.