Lockjaw’s Lair
Contest for Google Wave Invite
I’ve had a few days to work with Google Wave, and it really is a fantastic new tool. Currently, it is in preview mode, so access is invite-only. Those who received their invites directly from Google have been granted invites that they can pass out to others. I’ve decided to offer one of mine up [...]
Blog Converted to WordPress
So, I was up late last night converting my blog from Movable Type to WordPress. Movable Type wasn’t a bad product. In fact, it was quite good. I found myself wanting some features that were available as plugins to WordPress, but not MT. In addition, MT’s problematic support of Opera in its editor required me [...]
Slow Posting? I Hadn’t Noticed.
As if I hadn’t slowed down in my posting to this blog enough, for the last couple weeks, I haven’t written at all. For at least the near future, I can’t say how much I’ll be posting. Time is becoming more of a commodity in my life, requiring a few changes in my priorities. I’ll [...]
Recent Blog Downtime and Problems
Some of you may have noticed, over the past week, that there has been some downtime with this blog. Now that things are finally ironing out on this front, I thought I’d pass along what happened. I attempted to load, one morning at work, a special weather page that I have on this site (private [...]
Test Entry
This entry is just s test. The Lair has moved to a new hosting company. Story to come later. This post is just to verify that things are working properly. {title:”Test Entry”,url:”http://www.lockjawslair.com/2006/03/11/test-entry/”} Please Share and Enjoy:
300th Post – What I Believe
This post marks the 300th post on this iteration of my blog. There have, undoubtedly, been over 1000 posts in the course of my blogging career, but many have been lost in upgrades. Each time I changed my blog software or location, I selected a number of posts to bring into the new system, and [...]
Slower posting of late
I know, my posting on the blog has slowed down a lot in recent weeks. This is likely to continue for a while. I’ve got idea after idea running through my head for the posting, but I’ve been busy on other things. Working all week, and busy all weekend has been the usual routine. Some [...]
How Spam Affects Blogging
I haven’t been the most active lately, on the blog. I know. I’ve been doing a lot of stuff, but that stuff just hasn’t been here on the blog. One reason is spam. Every day, I’ve been logging in to the blog and deleting spam comments by the dozens. Overnight, over 80 spam comments have [...]
Minor De-Uglification of the Lair
Slightly different color change (One color changed) and a slightly less ugly logo are now in place. How do you like it. Is it less ugly enough? I never have been one to try to make my websites look too fancy. Functional is best. When I design for others, I try to make them look [...]
Comment Spams and MT Upgrade
I’ve been fighting the good fight against comment spam on the site for some time. Moveable Type has some nice tools available to help in this. One of these is MT-Blacklist, which I’ve used for some time. Unfortunately, after upgrading to the new MT 3.2 Beta 1 platform, MT-Blacklist quit working. I installed the patch, [...]