Akismet Spam Filter

Posted on June 8th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Personal, Blogs, Omnia Vanitas, Random.

I will never understand why people (and its often the same people, over & over again) try to comment spam my site.  I activated the filter before I even put up my first post, and all comments require approval.  The futility of of it makes me wonder at their perseverance — do they get paid per attempt, en masse, or only for those links that go live?  It makes the little demon in me want to go to other sites, and repost the junk just to see if it goes up — ’cause doesn’t everyone with their own domain have some kind of system in place? Well, obviously not, since you see garbage comments all the time, which just makes me wonder at other people’s lack of diligence — I almost blame them more than the spammers, since they obviously encourage this sort of behavior . . . ;)

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Fun Forever

Posted on May 5th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Personal, Blogs, Omnia Vanitas, Technology, Random.

I love to StumbleUpon great sites! Whenever I’m bored or in need of some inspiration, I just click on the “Stumble” button installed in my web browser, and I’m off to look at hugely interesting artifacts that users with interests similar to mine have submitted.

Earlier, I wrote about the book art page I found through StumbleUpon, and I went back to look at the whole site, Fun Forever. It’s spare but gorgeous (check out how the background moves as you scroll, how awesome!), and offers a unique collection of cool and usual products that are just flat out neat. I love this post on what blankets say, which includes sheets that have Romeo & Juliet printed on them to sheets that will leave messages pressed into the people sleeping on them. Definitely have a peek at this site, it’s worth it!

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Pyroteachnic

Posted on May 5th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Education, Personal, Blogs, Omnia Vanitas, Technology.

I have come to the sad conclusion that I need to change the template for my online teaching portfolio, Pyroteachnic.  While I love the flame motif and the script, I think it might be hard to read for some people and it is definitely not Section 503c compliant.  I’d planned to do two almost complete code sets to address this, but I’m never going to get around to it.  Heck, I haven’t even been able to update it since the winter, which is just hugely disappointing to me personally.  It will have to go on the AF/BSS (after finals but before summer school) list of to-dos.  So, if anyone knows of an appropriate WordPress theme that uses accessibility standards, please let me know!

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Bugs

Posted on January 17th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Blogs, Technology.

Still working out some bugs, so ignore this.

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New Theme

Posted on January 17th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Personal, Blogs, Technology.

Hi folks. I switched back to Wordpress because I found this lovely little theme. Try clicking the tiles under the main header. Nifty, eh? Let me know how beautiful it is . . . :)

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