Widgets

Added the Twitter widget to a WordPress blog ... and it slowed loading to a crawl. Killing that for now ...

Practice, Practice

As I wait for the final bits to be coded on the new Xserve, I've been practicing my WordPress installation skills on my new personal blog. (Yeah, shameless plug.)

There are a number of ways to go about a WordPress install. The software is free to download and has tons of user support available, one of the reasons we ended up going this route. If you're doing your own and don't have a hosting company already, there are lots of places that specialize in WP installs, some with one-click processes. 

That isn't the case for us with the new site, and it isn't the case on the new personal blog, either. So I've been wading into Plesk to set permissions, reconfiguring Akismet spam filters and other such things for the last few hours, trying to get everything just right. Lots of notes on the second screen, things to do, things not to do ...

Behind the Front, Part III

Added FriendFeed to the every growing list of things we may someday find a use for.

Behind the Front, Part 2

Added Flickr and MySpace, as well.

Behind the Front

Part of the decision process in naming the new site involved making sure we could get every social media or technology outlet available. Aside from the domain, I also snapped up the following associated IDs:

• Gmail
  
• AIM
  
• Twitter
  
• Facebook
  
• Pownce
  
• Plurk
  
• YouTube
  
• Blip.tv
  
• Vimeo
  

Did I miss any?

Grady Journal

It's coming ... gradyjournal.com

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