Tag Archives: tbbs

Cloud Funnies

I have my WordPress TagCloud widget set to display the most popular tags in a random order. By so doing, I realized that there was a possibility that certain tags could be placed side-by-side in ironic, cute, or possibly even ribald combinations.
While checking out the tbbs front page a while ago, I noticed these [...]

Autumnal Header Graphic

tbbs is graced by the photographic expertise of WSK_2005, aka Shawn Kinkade who got this beautiful shot of autumnal foliage at the Kansas City Zoo.
More importantly, Shawn made the work available under a Creative Commons license with the “free to remix” clause active.
I trust that my limited Gimp skills didn’t detract too much from the [...]

Writing on the Wall

On a whim, about a month or so ago, I installed the WP Wall plugin and widget. The widget sits in the right sidebar over there. From the plugin author’s site, WP Wall provides this:
Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the [...]

Slickness is Slick

As documented here, I activated the heretofore unnoticed Automatically discard spam comments on posts older than a month checkbox in the Akismet WordPress plugin.
A month or so in, and my spam trap went from ginormous1 to next to none. And I can much more easily find any false positives that make it into [...]

Sometimes, Things Work out Right

tbbs-land was sans internet and land-line phones last week, starting on Wednesday, as our usually reliable Verizon FiOS service went dark. Our cellphones and Sprint Wireless Broadband card got a workout, so it wasn’t like we were totally off the grid.
Preferring to consult a proctologist named Dr. Hook than talk on the phone to Verizon [...]

Not Even a Classroom Day….

Will deter tbbs-land from upgrading to the latest WordPress. We now are proudly powered by WP 2.6.2 after the upgrade.
A day in class is tiring; the course material voluminous and thorough, the instructor knowledgeable and enthusiastic, the class nearly full of people from various backgrounds and interests, the eats plentiful and good.
Today covered a [...]

Akismet Slickness

I don’t know how long this option has been in Akismet, but there’s now a checkbox labeled Automatically discard spam comments on posts older than a month
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Following the recent WordPress 2.6.1 upgrade, I noticed the option when reactivating plugins post-upgrade. I checked it, and my incoming spam trap has been squeaky clean. This is [...]

Latest, Greatest

I may get under 10 million hits a month here at this old blog; that doesn’t hinder me in upgrading to 2.6.1 WordPress. I just got finished; another flawless upgrade.
Thanks, WordPress!
-k-

2.6

It’s great having a day off after the Search For America Tour, if for no other reason than to upgrade one’s blog installation. tbbs is now powered by WordPress 2.6.
Thanks, WordPress!
-k-

Retooling

Ever since WordPress introduced native support for tags, I’ve struggled with getting a decent tagging system in place here at tbbs.
The struggle has been compounded by a well-intentioned, though not well-executed effort to convert my existing categories to tags. Some categories, most significantly my punchlines and RIP categories, translated nicely to tags. Others; e.g., the [...]