"There is nothing more difficult to plan, more uncertain of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things." —Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
I’ve only been using WordPress for a couple of weeks, but it’s crazy that there isn’t a way to kill the built-in commenting system without editing the PHP directly within your theme. I found where I can kill the ability for people to comment, but the blog still insisted on displaying the “Comments are closed” [...]
(Salvaged from the old blog…) It always bugs me when people try to be cutesy in an old-town way by putting up signs saying things like “Ye Olde Coffee House” or “Ye Olde Cinema” or something equally silly. For whatever reason, something always seemed wrong about it to me, and now I know why. It’s because… [...]
(Salvaged from the old blog…) Holy cow! This has been bugging me for a long time, and for whatever reason, I never bothered to look it up. Why are some words spelled with a “gh” in them, but you rarely pronounce them like they’re spelled? The “gh” is almost always either silent or pronounced like “f”. [...]
For whatever reason, I decided it was time to come back. Previously, just for fun, in an earlier life, I had a little self-hosted blog going. I didn’t spend a lot of time on it, I didn’t spend a lot of time writing on it, and it certainly wasn’t that interesting, except maybe to me. [...]
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