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Dream Merger: A Silicon Valley Engagement

Thu Tu Koelling — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:32:06 +0000

During our trip to his hometown during the July 4th weekend, my boyfriend, Troy, proposed to me. I was so shocked and speechless that I only managed to come up with a one word reply: yes! You can read more about the proposal from his blog post, Dream Merger. I know commitment can seem to be a [...]

Awesome WordPress Theme: Atahualpa

Thu Tu Koelling — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:14:56 +0000

I just changed the theme of my blog to Atahualpa. I liked it when I first saw it because of the ability to have a rotating roster of random heading images. It’s really cool because it is so configurable that I don’t have to edit the theme files themselves.

The theme comes with some nice [...]

Installed Google Friend Connect WordPress Plugin

Thu Tu Koelling — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:16:40 +0000

Google just made the Google Friend Connect API available to developers. What made this interesting was that it would make it easier for site admins/developers to integrate Friend Connect into existing login systems. As a WordPress user, I was excited to see that there was a plugin for my blogging platform of choice. An added bonus [...]

Webmaster Tool: Find Sources of 404 Errors

Thu Tu Koelling — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:57:31 +0000

Thanks to Matt Cutts for the heads up on how to use Google Webmaster Tools to get more information on our websites’ 404 File Not Found errors. As the Google Webmaster Central Blog announced: Webmaster Tools shows Crawl error sources.

For those who have not used the diagnostic tools of Webmaster Central, one of the informative [...]

Why I Left Lunarpages Web Hosting

Thu Tu Koelling — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:11:54 +0000

I really don’t want to be negative toward Lunarpages, but I felt that people need to know what’s going on with Lunarpages to save them from future agony at the hands of a company with poor customer service and that has little respect toward its customers.

I have been a customer since 2003. I left [...]

Moving to DreamHost

Thu Tu Koelling — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:57:31 +0000

I am moving my takethu.com domain to my new web host, DreamHost. Please pardon the dust during and after the move.

Thank you for your patience.

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Five Reasons I Blog

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:43:09 +0000

I’ve been blog-tagged by Adam (tag) and Sebastian (tag) to write about why I blog.

First, let me clarify that there have been three incarnations of my blog. When I started in 2004, I used a phpbb forum to post “blog” entries. I did it for three months but then lost interest. In early 2006, [...]

WordPress Wii Theme Plugin

Thu Tu Koelling — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:05:51 +0000

I’ve installed a WordPress plugin that will switch the theme to a Wii Friendly theme when the user-agent is Wii. Thanks to Winksite for the WordPress Wii Edition plugin.

One year anniversary of this blog

Thu Tu Koelling — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:29:50 +0000

I just realized that it’s been one year since I have set up this incarnation of my blog. And not just that, but I am still posting a year later, unlike the last time I started a blog in 2004. It’s a testament to WordPress’s awesomeness. I continue to post because it’s so much easier [...]

Most realistic spam comment I’ve seen

Thu Tu Koelling — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:19:09 +0000

In addition to using Akismet to do the bulk of the filtering of comment spam, I moderate comments from new users. The past few days, several comments have made it through Akismet’s filters and I was notified to moderate them. Today, I saw one that seemed genuine:

I always have terrible trouble with comment-related plugins [...]

No more spam, please

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:06:47 +0000

It’s really disheartening the amount of work that we webmasters have to put in to protect our websites from comment spammers, and now hackers. Since I have a site with various ways for users to provide input, I have had to spend a lot of time and effort on protecting and modifying those scripts.

The [...]