Iowa – I can’t even think of a great tagline

This particular post was not inspired by some random urge to write about the state that for the longest time I knew as my home. In fact, I’m only writing about Iowa because someone else did all of the hard work for me.

The Iowa State Fair is probably going full swing right [...]

YAWASP is amazing

One little plug-in was all that it took – one plug-in to rule them all, one plug-in to find them, one plug-in to bring them all and in the darkness bind them!

YAWASP, a plug-in for fully hosted versions of WordPress like mine has effectively stopped the torrents of comment spam that I was [...]

Fighting the spam

We all fight spam in one form or another be it snail mail, email, or comment spam. I’ve done a fairly good job at blocking out the email spam but and I can readily ignore the snail mail by throwing it in the trash. I haven’t had good luck blocking out the comment spam.

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That girl of mine

I have never been one to share – some things I share freely – others I hoard. For example, I will only loan a DVD to someone else if I know where they live because I’ve seen some of mine run away in the past. I’ll share food freely if you happen to drop [...]

XKCD

XKCD started as random scribbles by the author that were scanned and saved for posterity. Somebody found them and they became a phenom. This comic, in particular, should serve as a guide on how to comment on the schlock that you will find posted on this website. Click the image for a link [...]

WordPress 2.5

I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, my blogging software. If you find anything that doesn’t work as it should please leave me a comment and I’ll try to figure out what is wrong.

Thanks!