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Moving to DreamHost

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.

Five Reasons I Blog

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

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

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

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 [...]