Hidden Peanuts

I’ve got Wordpress 1.5 up and running. When I use my old theme comments no longer seem to work…

sigh. So I’ll stick with this default until I can either fix the old one or re-customize a new one.

edit: fixed! I stuck in the new default theme’s comments.php into my old custom theme and that did the job. Not sure what I’d changed in there, but oh well.

I’d just like to give major thanks to this upgrade guide, which helped me avoid many pitfalls my (somewhat ill-guided) customizations could have caused.

Almost forgot…

I’m taking the plunge and upgrading to Wordpress 1.5 at some point in the next few days. Wish me luck, and if the site acts screwy soon you’ll know why.

Wordpress 1.5 is officially out as of recently. I’m currently running Wordpress 1.2 here. I’d like to upgrade, but am terrified of the hassle it might require to get all my customizations up and running again.

Has anybody else made the upgrade successfully? How much of a hassle was it?

I’ve officially entered The Traveling Picture Show, where I post under the name Thunderclap8. I chronicle the journeys of SWAT. We’ll see if my creativity can hold up.

I swear, my free-time projects get more eclectic by the day…

Video game top 10 list has been delayed due to too many titles in consideration. I’ll get to it eventually.

Just when I get comment spam licked (thanks to the neato ‘copy this code’ plugin), trackback spam starts up… 5 of them just today. And all from the same annoying site.

I’m not even sure how the spam is getting added, since it doesn’t specify a site that the trackback is coming from. Maybe I’ll remove the trackback php page entirely or something.

Back to the drawing board.

edit: I researched the problem briefly and it appears there are solutions. However, I’m too lazy to take the time to implement them, so I disabled trackback on all new posts. Then thanks to a handy dandy SQL query, I disabled it on the old ones. Yay for database class coming in handy!

I’m currently the #9 result on MSN when you search for the word ‘peanuts’. That puts me one ahead of even one version of the official Peanuts cartoon strip site (another version is of course #1).

Exactly how this has come about baffles me.

I also get an amazing amount of search hits for “Benny Hill Theme Song”. Posting this phrase again will undoubtedly lead to yet more hits from it, so if that applies to you then here’s my original post on the topic that you’re probably looking for.

I’m currently in talks to run a blog for a startup media company.

It’s not as huge a deal as it sounds, but I always wanted to phrase something that way

For now just know that if you like ninjas, robots, pirates, and/or zombies (and who doesn’t?) you’ll want to be a reader.

Yesterday I started getting hammered by comment spam here. To combat it, I’ve instituted a random text generator. When you comment from now on, you simply copy the chracters you see in the image into the box next to it. Automated spambots can’t do this, and thus can’t post comments.

Note that if you mis-type the code, your comment will be lost.

A bit of a pain, yes. I hope you’ll bear with me.

Feeling much better today, thanks. Must be one of those 24-48 hour stomach flu things. Not pleasant by any means, but could have been worse. Unfortunately ended up missing both classes yesterday and work today, but nothing I really could have done about that.

Nick pointed me to abandonia.com, a warehouse of free old DOS games. They have Chip’s Challenge! I used to play that all the time. Ah, memories…

Off to make up for everything I didn’t get done yesterday. More real content coming soon, I promise.

I’m feeling very under the weather, so don’t expect lots of updates soon. Be back as soon as I can though.