21 May 2008
Float Trip
It's time for the annual float trip, which means more silence here.
I hope everyone has a great Memorial Day Weekend (as we get ours started a little early).
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/21/08 13:55 | Announcements | Technorati | Comments (2)
23 August 2007
80s Friday
We'll be having a blog meetup of sorts Friday night at the Continental Club.
Details here.
We may retire to the West Alabama Ice House afterwards.
Feel free to come knock down a brew with us and enjoy some fun 80s music.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/23/07 14:28 | Announcements | Technorati | Comments (0)
02 August 2007
Comment Spammers
Comment spammers seem to have figured out how to bypass the Captcha challenge, which was effective at keeping the b@stards out for quite a little while.
I've taken some additional measures that seem to be working for now, but we'll see how long they are effective.
It's entirely possible that the changes may cause problems for legitimate commenters. Please let me know if you try to leave a comment and there's a problem.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/02/07 19:44 | Announcements | Technorati | Comments (10)
03 November 2006
Skipping outta town
I'm skipping outta town for a few days, to Chicago.
I should be around the internet some, so do email if you really need to for some reason.
Try not to miss me too much *laugh* (especially you obsessive cyberstalker types). And have a good weekend!
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 11/03/06 10:57 | Announcements | Technorati | Comments (1)
29 July 2006
Plumbing updated
This wouldn't really be worth a post, except I know some Nucleus users wind up here from time to time because I've posted in the past about fixes, plugins, and the like...
It may be useful for some readers to know I've changed over the plugin responsible for generating headlines from RSS feeds on the sidebar. The older NP_Newsfeed plugin was increasingly erratic, and seemed prone to certain PHP errors. The Nucleus community seems to prefer NP_RSSAtom these days, and it's been very reliable since I switched to it a week or so ago at blogHOUSTON. Now it's being used here, and seemingly working just fine.
So, keep on enjoying those links on the sidebar. Or whatever. They ought to be showing up with more reliability now.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 07/29/06 15:54 | Announcements | Technorati | Comments (4)
24 May 2006
Camping Time
I'm sneaking away to a campground to get an early start on the Memorial Day weekend.
It's not exactly primitive, but there won't be any internet, so I obviously won't be posting to the blogs or probably even checking email for a few days.
I'm going to turn on moderation here, so the spammers won't just trash the place while I'm gone.
I hope everyone has an enjoyable Memorial Day weekend when it finally rolls around. I'm looking forward to the first bottle of wine tonight. :)
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/24/06 06:49 | Announcements | Technorati | Comments (1)
27 March 2006
A Little Break
I'll be involved in some business travel over the next week, and posting is likely to be slow or even nonexistent here.
I'll see ya'll on the other side.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 03/27/06 08:34 | Announcements | Technorati | Comments (2)
15 January 2006
Disclaimer
I updated the disclaimer page recently.
There are some substantive updates, particularly to the comments policy.
I would add that regular commenters might want to consider setting up a commenting account. It's easy to do, and allows commenters to edit their comments after the fact, skip the captcha challenge, and (I believe) skip the comment control moderation on older posts.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/15/06 13:42 | Announcements | Technorati | Comments (2)
22 December 2005
Slow Posting
As with blogHOUSTON, posting here is likely to be slow until next week.
Here's wishing everyone a very merry Christmas / Hannukah / Kwanzaa / Holiday / Secular Gift Exchange day -- or whatever else you may celebrate.
Ho ho ho!
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 12/22/05 23:24 | Announcements | Technorati | Comments (6)
30 October 2005
Time For A New Look
As some of you know, I've been tinkering with a new look for the blog literally for months now.
It hasn't been a very high priority, and so it's just taken forever.
I decided it was finally time to roll the thing out, even though parts of the thing aren't quite finished and I haven't done the usual amount of debugging.
The main goal was to change things up visually and go with something a little more crisp after a couple of years of grays. It's basically a version of the blogHOUSTON skin. Three columns were chosen so I could have one column of ads (and basically pay for hosting), and one column of more substantive stuff. The first sidebar column main page includes a syndicated-feed version of my furl archive (daily reading that I find interesting for whatever reason), a syndicated feed from Brother Judd (where I contribute a little, and a site that ought to be daily reading for folks interested in politics), and a syndicated feed from blogHOUSTON.
Some of you didn't like the green last time I asked, but it was the best I could do given the predominance of the "Drive Friendly" logo. And those signs at various entry points of the state have always been very amusing to me. Amusing myself is key to all this, you know. :)
There are still a number of things I need to do, including: 1) a PDA friendly page, 2) updating the skins on the static, non-blog pages of the site, 3) other stuff that I don't have on a to-do list yet. (Update: Blogroll is one of those other items; I'm using a plugin to manage the blogroll now, but it's a work in progress, as usual).
If anybody finds anything badly wrong with the new design or it won't render in whatever browser you're using, please shoot me an email or leave a comment and I'll do what I can
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/30/05 18:09 | Announcements | Technorati | Comments (6)
21 October 2005
Well, It's Been A Hard Week....
Week and a half, actually, but Randy's song doesn't start that way.
Posting is going to be limited here this weekend, perhaps nonexistent, as I'll be enjoying a little down time.
Hope ya'll have a good weekend!
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/21/05 12:20 | Announcements | Technorati |
09 October 2005
New Feature
I've enabled a Nucleus feature that I should have enabled some time ago.
Commenters now have the ability to create an account in Nucleus for commenting purposes. This allows a logged-in user to edit comments, and to bypass the captcha challenge graphic.
I planned on enabling the feature in the coming redesign, but there's no real reason to make anybody who might want to use it wait. The links to create an account and to log in are also in the comment section of individual posts.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/09/05 14:04 | Announcements | Technorati | Comments (6)
02 October 2005
Redesign
I'm sick to death of all the gray here, and am in the process of changing things up a bit.
Here's a preview of where it's headed. Obviously, I've borrowed some from the blogHOUSTON skin structure. Otherwise, it's pretty low on graphics and designed to load quickly. The final version will have RSS feeds (their location won't change) and the ability to create accounts in order to edit comments.
Any thoughts?
Does it look horrid in your browser? Do you hate the colors? What else?
Obviously, it's a work in progress, but I'm ready for a change.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/02/05 18:15 | Announcements | Technorati | Comments (13)
02 September 2005
A Little Bit Of Down Time
I have some commitments that are probably going to keep me from blogging here for about a week, and I'll be turning on comment moderation and disabling trackback (spam) shortly.
It's almost certain that I'll miss posting my first Big 12 Wrap of the season, but I do plan on doing the wraps again this season. They keep me tuned in to the teams in the conference I don't follow closely, and a few readers seem to like 'em.
I'll probably do some posting over at blogHOUSTON over the next week, but even that will be limited.
I'll be checking emails, so drop me a line if you need to be in touch. Activity here will resume in about a week. :)
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/02/05 13:21 | Announcements | Technorati | Comments (2)
15 July 2005
New Logo
Rob Booth found this fun little application.
I couldn't resist using it to create a new logo for the site. You may need to refresh your browser or clear the cache to see it.
That will work until I get around to the redesign I've been tinkering with, which also involves a Texas-themed logo.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 07/15/05 23:02 | Announcements | Technorati | Comments (0)
04 July 2005
Updated Plumbing
I've upgraded the software on the site and moved some directories around so that I could enable fancy urls and make ready for the redesign that's on its way soon,
Everything seems to be working, but I may well have broken something. If something seems messed up, please let me know.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 07/04/05 12:49 | Announcements | Technorati | Comments (0)
19 June 2005
Software Upgrade
I've upgraded the weblog software and some of the plugins to take advantage of some new features.
The only thing visitors should notice (unless I've broken something) is a new plugin that requires the entry of a Captcha alphanumeric sequence before a comment can be posted. This is intended as yet another spam prevention measure.
I have a redesign in the works, but it's not quite ready yet.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/19/05 19:43 | Announcements | Technorati | Comments (2)
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