Set Priorities in Direction of Goals
After much thought, I’ve decided to reinvent my mission statement. The CAN page has changed and you’ll find the following(below) if you go there.
From the revised CAN page:
It has been said: “If you aim at nothing, you will surely hit it.”
That’s why I rate my own blogs monthly.
It’s also been said that if you do [...]Manage Your Comments: Recaptcha In, Akismet Out
Akismet, the native WordPress comment spam protection service, spams a lot of good comments on my blog. I don’t always have the time to check it for false-negatives. As a result, I probably have missed at least some comments from many great writers, friends, and visitors. I’ve suffered with it long enough. Today I deactivated it and now I’m using Recaptcha. In the future I may use them both in concert with one another.
“Be Nice!” I Said to Myself
Boy that is sometimes easier said than done. Have you ever got so uppity at someone only to find out later you were wrong? It’s a bad feeling let me tell you. Kind of like when your baby has a really bad diaper and for the life of you you can’t remember [...]
Blog Safari 4-16-2008
I couldn’t get this out Sunday for 2 reasons: #1) I was busy getting my theme and layout all sorted and #2) I hadn’t done that much time in the jeep! What you have here is a collection of the stuff that made me oooh and aaah last week. Fasten your seatbelts and [...]PowerPoint is a great tool! Want a Stumble?
I’ve officially become a “regular” contributor over at Edublogs magazine which is edited by Lorelle VanFossen. This is an enormous sense of arrival for me in my writing career since education is my life and coming up fast behind is blogging.
Lorelle has been a hero of mine in blogging for quite a while now. [...]1 Step Gravatars on your WordPress Blog
Get Gravatars on your WordPress Blog in 1 step
No plugin required! Just one copy/paste in your comments.php file will make gravatars miraculously show up ( for commenters that have gravatar accounts) 1 step:
Directly before: <?php comment_text() ?>
paste:<?php
if ( !empty( $comment->comment_author_email ) ) {
$md5 = md5( $comment->comment_author_email );
$default = urlencode( [...]
