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A Message to Bloggers: Stop Linking the Fucking White Space

A Message to Bloggers: Stop Linking the Fucking White Space By far one of my biggest internet pet peeves is when I click on blank space beside an image and discover it’s a god damn hyper link. For users that switch focus between a number of applications, this can become incredibly annoying. Fortunately this problem [...]

IP 173.234.*.* is now banned

Due to an overwhelming amount of bullshit/spam that I don’t feel like sorting through, all connections from 173.234.*.* will now be appropriately redirected to Meatspin.com. I am aware they’re probably bots and don’t care, but hey, you never know. Have a nice day!

Thanks for the Comment Spam

Maybe I’m just a touch egotistic, but I’m really enjoying all the positive comments spammers have been leaving on my blog. So much so that in the future I’ll be publishing all your happy comments, just don’t expect to get any support from them. In short, make a positive comment about this blog and them [...]

Adjusted SmothGallery

Ever since I first configured SmoothGallery i’ve been annoyed by the stack size of the text overlay. Often it would be 80px or more higher than I needed it to be. After a little searching I managed to find the following code patch: As you can see it looks much nicer. Previously the background went [...]

Couple of Changes

Applied a few new updates today: – Installed an configured WP-to-Twitter to automatically post new articles to my twitter feed. Devblog articles are excluded for obvious reasons so I won’t get to test it until I add new content. – Installed Easy Twitter button and configured the offical twitter button to now appear at the [...]

A Note About This Dev Log

By no means am I skilled with php, css, html, DOM or anything else web related. I’m just a regular guy who knows enough to be dangerous. In essence that means this dev log will be more a catalog of site changes and implementations than anything meaningful or insightful. You have been warned.