Turning Tips Off

I’m not writing this to post a tip of some kind, Instead I’d like to find a way to turn off the annoying little “WordPress Tip” that appears on the dashboard every time I go there.

It’s been nagging me for a log time now to do this or that and today I did a couple of them just to get the thing to shut up about them and when I next visit the dashboard it’s still nagging me about the thing I just did. That means it’s not “aware” of my needing or not needing to do something, it’s just serving up random tips every time I load the dashboard and frankly, I’m already not happy with the auto upgrade whether I like it or not to WP 2.5, this is just making it that much more “fun” (not)

Working on Mixminion

After a long time away from it, I’m returning once again to my Mixminion Message Sender program. The first thing I’m going to be doing is creating a new distribution package that will include a default install of mixminion so that the whole thing will be a lot more ready to use right ‘out of the box’.

The next part of the project is a bit more ambitious. I’m going to *try* to get Mixminion-0.0.8alpha3 built for win32 so that Windows users can once again be on track with the developers.

So far, after a few trial runs today I can see that it’s going to be a challenge. Especially since the original was apparently built with Visual Studio 6’s C compiler. I’m going to be trying to get this accomplished within the cygwin mingw environment instead because I personally would prefer it to be built with free tools if at all possible.

All Revved Up With Nothing To Write

At least that’s how it feels sometime. I looked at this blog today and realized how long it’s been since I posted anything and that just can’t be allowed to stand.

So, I’ll post about a couple of other blogs that I managed to get posts written on today that normally go a long time between posts.

Starting out with my blogger blog, where I posted about a series of articles I’ve written about being anonymous online called “A Collection of anonymity tutorials“. My eventual goal is to have a guide that will allow anyone to blog anonymously without fear of their identity being discovered or given up by the place where the blog is hosted. They won’t be able to give anything up because they won’t have anything TO give up.

Then there’s my MySpace page, which is another one that sometimes goes a month or more without posts, There I talked about some posts that my wife has written that are very much worth reading. Especially if credit cards and / or home equity loans are or might be factors in your life now or anytime soon. And lets not forget about Gas prices

Hunting For Good Blogs and more

In the never ending quest to find *good* blogs, I’ve found one that is appropriately called “Blog Hunting” that’s not only a good one in and of itself but it’s also good for finding good blogs because it features little mini-reviews of blogs and more than that, some focus on a particular entry or two on the featured blog.

It’s fairly new but it looks promising as an up and coming resource for finding good blogs and interesting articles.

On another note, I’ve spent some time looking around at other *.wordpress.com hosted blogs and I’m starting to wonder about something… are there any of them that have pagerank?

I’m asking because in the last week or so I’ve probably loaded a couple of hundred of them and Firefox’s searchstatus plugin is reporting either PR 0 or “unranked” for every single one of ‘em.

I know the basic way to get pagerank is by getting inbound links… have known and been doing that for a long time on other blogs and websites for years but *this* blog simply sits there with a zero. It’s not super important because it’s not like I’ll ever use this one for any kind of paid posting or anything. It’s just one measure of how noticed a page is becoming. Of course, one most obvious way would be to post here more often and have something to say that people want to read… yeah.. that’s the ticket!

It’s a Doofus thing

It really is, honest.

One of my newest blog projects is called “BlogDoofus“, which I consider to be kinda appropriate since I’m using it to experiment with and learn how to get the best out of adsense. The most recent post on there is called Election confusion and it’s some thoughts of mine concerning super tuesday and the results thereof.

I sure hope the repbulicans get the right person, because the democats have nothing but wrong choices this time out.

Plugins

Specifically, I’m looking to find out if it’s possible to install plugins on these WordPress.com hosted blogs. For example, I’d appreciate being able to deal with trackback / pingback spam by using Simple TrackBack Validation. I’d like to allow “do follow” for the links of those leaving comments and I’d appreciate being able to use Lucia’s LinkyLove to manage that.

Others like peters-custom-anti-spam-image and of course, sociable and the Comment Email Responder

.. you get the idea. Anyway. is there any way this can happen or is plugins something I can have on the wordpress blogs that I host myself and not on wordpress.com blogs?

That figures

more nothing

ok. I’m posting nothing again….that’s fine with me

Link Building

While I’m not totally ignorant on the subject, I thought I’d run this up the flagpole to see if anybody salutes…

What are the top methods of building one way inbound links quickly? Ideally, this would include specifying the keyword / phrase for the anchor text and each URL being linked to would only appear a maximum of two or three times on a single domain. It would also be best to have them be on as many different IP addresses as possible.

I’ll bet readers can come up with things I haven’t heard of or tried

WOW! He actually did someting!

That’s right!, I actually took a minute to do something with this blog.

Don’t expect too much just yet, but now that I’ve finally decided on a theme I do expect to post here a little more often. even though this blog will still largely be a testbed to try things out on that I might actually use on another blog.  In the meantime, I think that given the Christmas season you might consider stopping by Topshelf, A Christian blog that is sure to remind us of the reason for the season.

nothing much

ok, it’s a test… including a trackback to a post on one of my other blogs