James Chamberlin

One of my last entries before disappearing without a trace for a while was about SPAM and when I decided to return to my lolely little blog, I was greeted with some four hundred SPAM alerts.
Once hesitant about Akismet, I have nothing but good things to say about it. It’s turned out to be [...]

I’m afraid there isn’t much to report right now. I’m just busy working.
Regarding the title of this new entry, I had an old post about blog spam which is suddenly attracting you guessed it: blog spam. It’s getting 5-10 spams a day right now. It’s hardly a big problem thanks to Akismet, [...]

Just when I get my blog updated, WordPress has to come out with another security release. You’d think they would learn to be a bit more thorough before putting out a release which fixes security holes.

There isn’t a whole lot of news to offer up this week. The tomatoes aren’t looking good this year. It looks like they’re suffering from some sort of blight. The plants really look sad. I don’t believe there’s any hope for them to last through the summer, sadly enough.
After dragging my [...]

I don’t track WordPress development very closely, but it’s annoying to have installations out of date. WordPress puts an annoying banner at the top of the Dashboard which alerts you of this fact. I find most of my installations are now three or four versions out of date thanks to the small fixes [...]

I’ve been trying to get this done for a while now, but I finally managed to export all of the TV-related content from this blog and have built another site for it.
TV-Reviewed was recently launched and contains most of my TV content. Some of it was deleted because I didn’t think it should [...]

One of the tools Google has developed for webmasters to obtain information on their visitors [where they're coming from, browser type, etc] is their Analytics program. I was impressed by its demo a long time ago and signed up for it immediately. It seemed to work well for a while, but I’ve been [...]

A few days ago, I was working with another WordPress installation which is for another project. When I downloaded the config file to update it, I noticed the formatting was screwed up. So I fixed it up so that it looked like it should, uploaded it to the server, and WordPress had a [...]

When I initially activated the WordPress plugin Akismet, I was a little apprehensive. I didn’t know if it would slow down the site or even catch the spam my little blog seems to attract. But after a few months of running, Akismet has caught over seven hundred spam comments and trackbacks… 711 to [...]

I’ve had nothing but trouble with the image uploader ever since 2.5 was released. For some reason, the developers felt it was necessary to use Flash to upload the images. I kept getting HTTP errors for some reason and judging by many of the other WordPress users, I’m not alone. I found [...]