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I set up WordPress a couple of years ago, moving my blog over from blogger.com. After a while, I started getting tremendous amounts of blog spam. For the longest time, I’d come home after work and delete 100’s of blog spam.
Finally, I decided to find a solution. Akismet.
Akismet is a WordPress plugin that pretty much [...]

If you have ever wanted to back up your wordpress blog database from within wordpress, well look no further.
Here is a blog post on the plugin you need, and instructions.
Pretty simple. Download the plugin, unzip, upload the php file to your blog, active plugin, goto Manage->Backup and you are good to go. I feel more [...]

When it makes sense. Everyone has ideas. Everyone has the way they think it should be, but there are many factors
that can contribute to how an idea come become more than an idea.
Does it make sense?
Feasible? (financially and resource wise)
Does it fit our goals?
Is there more to it that we aren’t seeing?
Is there an easier [...]

Found this from a blog yesterday, you can get a T-Mobile Dash smartphone for $49.99 from here
“Select “Save on the latest devices from T-Mobile” in the next page select “Click Here for Discounts” then “View Products” and last “Handhelds and PDAs”
The $49.99 is only for new activations, does not include activation fee, and only requires [...]

So last night I decided to try Amazon Unbox Movie downloads. I read about it over at Fransen’s blog, where is using the Tivo feature. I tried “A Scanner Darkly“.
What is cool is, I use my Xbox 360 as a Media Center Extender (I’m running Vista Ultimate). The Unbox video (even though DRM’d) played through the [...]

I really like Windows Media Player for the music library features, organizing, rating, etc. In Vista, the Photo Gallery takes care of pictures well, and videos too (tagging) - gotta love it, the photo gallery handles the videos. But the Video organization in Windows Media Player is, lacking.
When you are in music, you can organize [...]

St. Patty’s day, I’m not Irish, but I can drink like one :)
Not sure what I am doing tonight, but hopefully I will have some green beer. I just watched the Boondock Saints
“Everyone is Irish on St. Patty’s Day”
So, everyone go out tonight and celebrate the holiday that is all about green and drinking.

Well, fiddled around with a new theme here at G-Allens on wifi with Dahlin today.
Here was my old theme:

Things I DON’T like about the new theme:

The sidebar isn’t wide enough
I can’t seem to get the site description working in the top header, I can display it, but its jacked with the css and such
The widths [...]

Well, looks like I am getting publicly flogged for not having a “cool” theme, so it looks like I will have pull up the sleeves and show everyone my graphical talent and prowess. Be on the lookout for a new theme soon, hopefully this weekend. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Got an email from ThinkGeek for a cool faucet attachment. It will make your water out of the spout blue or red depending on the temperature of the water. How cool is that?
I think I might get one, thing is, when the lights are off, I would want the water running all the time just [...]