The Blog

Yesterday was hectic day for the management of this blog. Between noon and about 2 PM PT the hosting server was overloaded with requests. Memory and I/O maxed out preventing viewing or management of the blog. So, new tools have been added and more IP addresses have been blocked. Unfortunately Go Daddy’s metrics tools do not … Read more

WordPress Annoyance

If you have found the new WordPress panel for editing URL/Links annoying join the crowd. Add your voice to the thread at: New WordPress URL Popup Causes More Work. This change is a serious annoyance. Lots of people do not want the links leading off site to replace their page with the destination page. I’m … Read more

Google Forms and WordPress

From time to time I’ve wanted to collect information from readers. I have adopted and discarded various polling plugins. But, they keep changing and being a pain. So, seeing this come through my mail I thought I better take a look. How to Add Google Forms to Your WordPress Website Elegant Themes has a tutorial … Read more

Site Changes

Let me know if you start having problems with this site. I have been upgrading the security. About 2 or 3 PM each day I see the site slammed by remote sites sucking gigabytes of content out of my site. I’m not sure why they would want it. Nor do I mind that they take … Read more