Thirstan's Aardwolf

WordPress For Dummies – Available Monday 10/29

thirstan — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:59:27 +0000

Lisa Sabin-Wilson is one of the true WordPress wizards in this world. She has written what I think will turn out to be one of the premier guides to WordPress. I can hardly wait for my copy to arrive. Please see the blurb below but then follow the link to her site to read all of the details.

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging tools available, with over a million registered bloggers, and climbing! This all-new Dummies guide delivers just what would-be bloggers need to get up and running with WordPress and start communicating with the world. WordPress For Dummies covers blogging basics, choosing a hosting solution or setting up a host, developing blog content, syndicating blog posts with RSS, launching a specialized blog (including podcasting, photoblogging, mobile blogging, and videoblogging), and even earning revenue. Read it all…

Automattic Acquires Gravatar

thirstan — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:49:47 +0000

Wow.. Matt is keeping busy!

* We transferred the Rails application and most of the avatar serving to our WordPress.com infrastructure and servers.
* Avatar serving is now more than three times as fast, and works every time.
* We’re going to make all of the Premium features free

WidgetBucks now offering better reporting!

thirstan — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:11:36 +0000

Starting Wednesday, Oct. 10, WidgetBucks begins reporting real-time revenue-per-click (RPC) and revenue, along with existing impression and click-through data. This improves original reporting which left daily RPC and revenue fields blank until vendor auditing requirements were completed (48-72 hours).

Click here for the story.

I made the switch to Scribefire

thirstan — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:36:47 +0000

Since I never found any good information or reviews on AirPress, I decided to go with ScribeFire since that seems to be the current favorite wordpress blogging tool.

Technorati Tags: wordpress, scribefire

Anyone using Airpress?

thirstan — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:18:42 +0000

I read Matthew Mullenweg’s mention of Airpress and am wondering if anyone has used it and what they think of it? Please.. leave a comment if you have.

Me and My foot

thirstan — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:09:03 +0000

In game, people have been asking about my recent hospital stay. I am posting this in response.

A little over 2 weeks ago I was making my first visit to my new Doctor, I was changing because I was interested in being treated as a person instead of as an annoyance which is how the old doctor office made me feel. My provider was great but that was where it stopped. It took me almost 9 months of waiting for the new doctor had an opening for new patients.

flash back 3 days from this first visit

I woke up with my foot hurting like you wouldn’t believe. I pulled the sheet off and found a sort just behind the big toe on my left foot. It was open, draining puss and blood both and stunk. It was not there the night before.

We tried treating it with peroxide but in three days it grow from the size of a dime to 3 x 2 centimeters and 1.1 centimeters deep. Never in my life have I experienced pain like this. We covered it with some Kerlix sponges and then wrapped it in an entire roll of kerlix and off I went to the 11am doctor appointment.

They took me back and I told them about the sore and the medical assistant unwrapped it and the wrapping was already soaked with drainage and blood. She did the history and typical workup and said the doctor would be right in. Much to my pleasant surprise, he was.

He introduce himself, we shook hands and he looked down at my foot and tells me that I need to be checked into the hospital and have immediate surgery. I am pretty sure my mouth hit the floor at this point.

Over the next 20 minutes he had his partner come in and verify what I needed. The MA came in to re-wrap my foot and ask some questions. The clinical coordinator was on the phone to register me for a bed. The doctor was calling the surgeon and his partner was calling the resident on duty in charge of admissions. WOW…

They let me go home to tell the family and within an hour I was checking in at Bronson Hospital. I will write part 2 later today or in the morning.

What site do you use to host your WordPress blog and why?

thirstan — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:11:32 +0000

I am seeking opinions and comments on what site is working best for you with your WordPress blog? I think I will need more than what wordpress.com can supply and I am to technically challenged to do a lot of coding stuff. I am hoping to find a site that offers more than an installer. The one I use now has that but the installer doesn’t make the software work without going in and making manual changes. Plus every time there is an upgrade, one must go in and do this manually. I have heard of some sites supposedly that have scripts or whatever to even automate this part.

Basically, any and all comments would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

The Purpose of this category

thirstan — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:05:59 +0000

I am hoping to slowly add tips and hints that will be of some help to the average player on Aardwolf. Advanced users may not find a lot of new information.

Attention you lurkers!!

thirstan — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:49:46 +0000

If you have a link you think I should be showing, let me know. Post a comment and I will check it out and add it if I think it is appropriate. Especially if you have a personal blog or whatever that covers aardwolf.

Glory Be! I made the hour of double!

thirstan — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:46:49 +0000

Sweet, I seem to never make the hour of double and at 9k per level it makes killing more fun. Managed to finish the evening at level 80. Not to shabby. Mostly we stayed in Scarred Lands, Talsa – Moricand and also killed a few cargo workers in the first part of Talsa.

I think tomorrow at some point I will be switching alignments as we begin the ft/ft2 killing spree. Chiketa got the millionth kill in this time. To bad we no longer get a prize for it.

I was thinking earlier, I wonder how many hours of fun Lasher has generated on this mud. I mean, all these thousands of players spending thousands of hours each playing.. HUGE achievement if you ask me. Thanks Lasher.