Blogger.com Help - Lesson 9 - Publishing Settings

The Publishing Settings tab allows you to define how your blog is accessed. Is it currently accessed by a URL that looks like myblog.blogspot.com? If so, then you are considered a sub-domain of www.blogspot.com. While I'm not terribly sure of the impact, I do know that it isn't the optimal set up. If you want to use your own domain name, this is where you would make those changes. [More]
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'Notify Me When New Comments Are Added' is Broken

Alex at ScarletVirago.BlogSpot.com has brought a bug to my attention that impacts each user of this site. When you comment, do you check the 'Notify me when new comments are added' checkbox? If so, have you been getting emails from my blog when new comments are added? [More]
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Improving the Speed of your Homepage

I recently installed the Technorati reaction count to WayneJohn.com and realize now that it simply slowed my homepage. [More]
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There's like this disturbance in the force man...

Do you feel it? I do, and it's kinda itchy. [More]
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Finding and Creating Images for your Blog or Web Site

Now and then you might want to create an image or two for your blog. Perhaps you want a regular, no frills image, other times you might want to create a custom image. Here are some of the services I have found and some that I use to generate an image. [More]
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New Gadgets Added to Blogger.com

If you haven't heard the news yet, Blogger has completed and released the ability to add gadgets to your blog. The gadgets are super easy to add to your blog, and you don't need anyone like me to tell you how to do it. I'm including the help video from Blogger.com themselves to do that. [More]
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Kitty Kitty

This is Kitty. Actually her name is Lil' f**ker and it's even on her paperwork, but we just call her kitty kitty, because sometimes there are kids around. [More]
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Never Patch Your Virtual Server

Here's how a well intentioned email goes wrong. Horribly wrong. I'm not naming names and pointing fingers, however the biggest finger needs to be pointed at myself. I misread a page that I was reading. The email gave me the link, I clicked it, and put into motion a series of events that left me, well, mildly calm. [More]
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Pfft

Yes, pfft! Ok, so if you happen to have tried to access my site or send me an email, my server is now back up and running.  I never meant to take the server out, but it never came back from the reboot.  I have just now completed a transition to a new install of a virtual server and got the... [More]
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Sending out some love on a Sunday

Top commenter Rose DesRoches has been the number one top commenter since the inception of my top commenter widget. How did she do it? Well, she communicated with me through my comments. I try to comment back to every single person that leaves a comment with me here. I always try to have the last word, well, why not, it's my blog after all. Is that so bad? You can have the last word on yours, right? [More]
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