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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 [...]

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?

I have read alot about MyBlogLog, so I signed up this morning. Pretty cool, I am liking it so far. Lets you see who visits, who clicks where, etc. Kind of like a suped up stat counter. Thing is, I signed up, logged out, and I can’t log in again, something must be wacked at [...]

Last night, a friend and I headed out around Central MN, we ended up going to the Pioneer Place, which both of us have heard of, but never ventured into. It is a theatre, that has a little bar in it. Almost feels like a “nice” house party. There was some guys playing acoustic guitar [...]

If you want to become a better twitter’er (to many t’s, e’s and r’s)  take a look here.
I’ve found that if you follow some of the people who post every 5 minutes, its way to much coming at you. I turn off following them and maybe check on the site once or twice a day, [...]

Been using Twitter this week, and now I have some friends on there, and it is really cool and addicting. I can see how this can keep you up to date with your friends and just is kind of fun. Its a good way do share snippets of info with your friends, semi-blog type app.

I signed up for Twitter this weekend. Its pretty cool so far. Just IM an address (gmail/aol, etc), send a txt, or update from the web. You can update people on what you are doing. Also, you can get alerts when people update what they are doing. I also put a badge on my blog [...]

I setup my feedburner feed. I changed the main RSS links on my blog to goto that.