Server Migration Complete

Published on October 25th, 2009 - 8:40 pm - by Josh

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joshandmeg.net is now officially migrated from my shared hosting account on Site5 to my own server, affectionately dubbed ‘Cortana’ (technically cortana.keppynet, where keppynet is my network name at home, and cortana is… ).
Since you’re still reading, I’m assuming you want all the nitty-gritty details.  All in all, it went remarkably well, much better than I [...]

joshandmeg.net 3.0

Published on October 17th, 2009 - 2:13 pm - by Josh

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Development has begun on the third version of joshandmeg.net!  The current iteration of the site has been active for nearly two and a half years now, and it’s beginning to feel a bit dated.
The new design is going to be a pretty drastic change from the way the site has looked and felt for the [...]

20,000 and Counting

Published on September 3rd, 2009 - 8:05 pm - by Josh

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joshandmeg.net just broke 20,000 SPAM comments. Quite an achievement I think. Seriously, 20K! We had less than 100 a couple years ago. 30,000, here we come.

FTC takes down a spam provider « Akismet

Published on June 10th, 2009 - 6:01 pm - by Josh

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FTC takes down a spam provider « Akismet.
Man, I totally called this a while back.  I hope those people get the death sentence.

SPAM Slowing Down

Published on May 11th, 2009 - 8:20 pm - by Josh

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So here’s something interesting I’ve noticed over the past few weeks: SPAM seems to be slowing down a bit. Not just email SPAM either, but SPAM comments on this very blog have seen a very steep slow down over the past several weeks.  The chart below shows the number of SPAM comments posted to [...]

Success!

Published on August 18th, 2008 - 9:01 pm - by Josh

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Whoa!  I finally got the blogs updated to WP 2.6.  A few of weeks ago I attempted it and had major headaches, and it has been driving me crazy ever since then.  So I gave it another shot tonight and finally got it up and running.
Anyway, not really too many changes you guys will notice [...]

Blogs Unavailable for the Moment – Updated

Published on July 29th, 2008 - 8:09 pm - by Josh

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Update: Well, after a day of searching through forums I still haven’t resolved the issue.  The blogs have been rolled back to 2.5.1 until I get a fix.  On the bright side, you can log in again!
I’m sure you’ve noticed by now, but the blog log-ins are not letting you in right now.  I just [...]

Technobabbles is Live!

Published on July 11th, 2008 - 7:18 am - by Josh

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Woot!  After a couple months worth of off-and-on coding, the WordPress theme for Technobabbles is finished, and I launched the site late last night.  I was debating whether or not to actually launch the site with a bunch of pre-written content, or just to launch it empty and let it fill up as it goes.  [...]

Photoblog

Published on June 30th, 2008 - 10:05 pm - by Josh

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Check out the new joshandmeg.net photoblog!  I know a lot of you visit the site primarily to check out pictures of our little ones, and unfortunately it generally takes me forever to get all the pictures we take all organized and uploaded to an album.  In the meantime, a lot of great pictures that are [...]

2 New Plugins for the Blogs

Published on June 11th, 2008 - 9:53 pm - by Josh

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I’ve just uploaded a couple of plugins for the blogs on joshandmeg.net.

Admin Drop Down Menu
Fluency Admin

Both of these plugins change the way the admin area of WordPress looks.  They can be activated independently of each other, providing a couple different changes.  If you just activate Admin Drop Down Menu, you’ll have the standard admin tabs [...]

Woopra Beta – First Impressions

Published on June 7th, 2008 - 1:11 pm - by Josh

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This post has been moved to Technobabbles.  You can now find it here: http://technobabbles.com/2008/07/woopra-beta-first-impressions/

Gallery Changes

Published on June 3rd, 2008 - 8:45 pm - by Josh

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Just a quick blurb about the Gallery.  I recently found a slick new theme for it that fits into the joshandmeg.net site design a lot better than the standard white one.  All previous functionality is still present, there is just a small button in the top left portion of the page to show the side [...]

Woopra Approval!

Published on June 2nd, 2008 - 7:58 pm - by Josh

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Woot!  joshandmeg.net was finally approved for the Woopra beta.  Woopra is a very new cutting-edge website statistics application, viewable through the members area of the website and through a desktop client for Linux, Mac, and Windows.  Here is a screenshot of the dashboard area, I’m gonna go play with it for awhile now.  I’ll post [...]

Blogs Upgraded to WP 2.5

Published on May 13th, 2008 - 9:29 pm - by Josh

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As you will notice as soon as you login to your blogs, they’ve all been upgraded to WordPress 2.5!  It looks quite a bit different, and you can now upload multiple photos and insert them in to galleries.  So, look around, get familiar with it, and let me know if you run into any problems.  [...]

Site Maintenance

Published on May 2nd, 2008 - 12:31 am - by Josh

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Goodbye 1and1, hello Site5. If you tried to visit the site yesterday evening, you may have noticed joshandmeg.net was nowhere to be found. Not to worry. I was migrating the site over to a new hosting company. Its quite a task and I’m only partially finished, so the photo albums are [...]