Upgraded, finally, to WordPress 1.5. It comes with Kubrick as a default which is a very nice layout, I think. Not too different from what I had.

The managing more than just the blog is great. I’ll have to see if it’ll basically do a CMS. I don’t see why not. pMachine did that well, though it wasn’t as — what’s the word — smooth as WordPress. I added the “About” page thorugh the WordPress “write page” option.

I had just put in a lovely spam blocker plugin but maybe they have made the default plugins better. We’ll see. The spammers had moved from comment spam to trackback spam. But neither was showing on the web pages. Haha. Suckers.

And, how the heck is it smaller than the old WordPress? With more features! Gotta love smooth coding.

Started to look around and found a few more plugins than I already had for spammers. One of them Spam Karma looks very promising. We’ll see.

A great depository of WP plugins is WP-Plugins and I still visit WordPress Codex. Though it used to be the WordPress Wiki but is a wiki but just not called such.

At least that’s what I keep telling myself. I turned comments into approval only. Then added the spammers’ urls/keywords whatever to WordPress’s Anti-Spammer tool. Works fine. But I wish there were a way to just automatically flip off the spammer.

Cause there’s a lot of it.

I wonder if it’d stop if I turned off comments for all posts. Like if these bots would see a “broken url” and then take me off their list. If so, I wonder how long I’d have to have the comments off to be taken off a list and will they ever revisit?

Yep. The site is still in the process of being rebuilt and such. So if there are odd entries or whatnot, I apologize. I’ll get there. I’ve got most everything sketched out on a piece of paper but just need to finish making the pages. Who wants to see a page that says “coming soon”? Right. I don’t, either.

I have the project due in design class this weekend and final project/portfolio due in computer graphics. I also want to hit the local thrift shops for stuff for my office. You know… stuff that will inspire me much like the skillet guy on those Golden Corral commercials. Thunk.

Also next week is Thanksiving in my neck of the woods. There will be much traveling and much schmoozing. Hopefully not much waistband expanders.

It will be hard to be away from the comfort of a keyboard. Though, I guess, I could take one with me… a keyboard that is. Snuggle it. Cuddle it. Call it George.

Yes. You can love your computer, just don’t love your computer.

Speaking of random… I wonder if I would get odd looks if I brought my camera to the thrift store.