Grrr. I don’t know what the deal is the past few days on my blog, but I’ve been getting hammered by spam, particularly spam trackbacks. Akismet has done an amazing job up to this point catching all of it; why it’s getting through now, I have no idea. I just had to go through and [...]
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Blogger seems to be mimicking WordPress.com
I was just reading some stuff in my feed reader* when I came across this from the Official Google Blog:
We’ve added a bunch of new features, which you can check out in the new version:
You can add stuff to your blog (cute cat photos, lists, feeds) without needing to know HTML.
You can also make a [...]
What would I do with 10GB of space on WordPress.com?
The WordPress guys have started offering another upgrade: lots and lots of upload space. You can upgrade to 1GB, 5GB or 10GB of space. They posed the question, what would you do with 10GB of space on WordPress.com? And no, you can’t upload your entire MP3 collection!
I don’t post many images on my blog, so [...]
CSS on WordPress.com has disappeared
Just a note to anyone visiting my site directly: I haven’t gone insane and reverted the look to plain text on white. A bunch of WordPress.com blogs are having the same issue. We bought the CSS upgrade; the custom CSS is still in the Presentation area; but our blogs aren’t actually showing it.
So, worry not. [...]
System13.org and some WordPress.com love
Today, WordPress.com released yet another feature: domain registration and mapping. This basically lets WordPress.com users use their own domain name for their blog. If you don’t already have a domain name bought, you can buy one through your blog dashboard. Once the domain name propagates (it took mine about 2 minutes), you can make your [...]
