I feel like I have many little things to report, but none long enough to warrant their own post. So bear with me if this seems like many random thoughts. :-) The good news is that Paul’s car is running again! The bad news is that the mechanic couldn’t find anything wrong with it. This means the car is unreliable, and Paul always needs an emergency contact person in case his car dies on his way to work (which is…
So I have been debating about getting a new look for my blog, as I had bored of the coffee cup theme. Last night, Paul and I went through a bunch of WordPress themes we found on the internet until we picked the one we liked the most. I downloaded it and changed my blog over, and wha-la! You now see a whole new different layout. I like it a lot, but I haven’t gotten a chance to mess around…
The answer, my friends, is my new system for anti-spam comments! *applause* The way it works is that the first time someone comments, it goes to a little queue where I decide whether to let the comment hit my site or not. If I have approved you for a comment in the past, then it will automatically be accepted. Hopefully that makes sense. So far this system of blocking spam has been working. I installed Akismet (a spam blocker) about…
My mom comes back from Switzerland in two days!!! (Well technically tomorrow, but I’ll give her a day to get over jet lag.) I’m sooo excited!! I miss her so much. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to pick up the phone and call her. So much has happened in the last two weeks… And I can’t wait to hear how Switzerland was! That’s my dream European destintion after Greece. :-) So my face has suddenly gotten…
Well the spammers have found my blog. I checked my email this morning to discover 140 spam comments on various posts of my blog. After tediously going through and deleting all of them, I decided that I need to do something. Anyone with wordpress have trouble with comment spam? (Matt) What’s an effective way to delete it? Temporarily, I have set it up so that I have to approve each comment before it hits the site (so if you leave…