Monkinetic Weblog

Someone asked for a proper diff of my changes to upload.php in |WordPress|, so here it is:

I want I want I want I need.

To read: Max Design's Web Standards Checklist. Max Design also has a great presentation section on their site with interviews, articles, and tips on using valid markup and stylesheets in your websites.

RandomURL: Tips for Travelling in the South. How not to get your ass kicked in the south. I grew up in Southeastern Virginia, which most Southerners will still begrudgingly accept as Southern, and this list of tips is both accurate and hysterical.

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I've updated our adoption How To Help page with a link to a language CD Jodi and I are interested in:

Ukrainian plus Russian Phrases for children. :-)

(This post is copied from this one on the support forums, I want to make sure my |WordPress| code has a home on this site.)

ukrainian-phrases

I've updated our adoption How To Help page with a link to a language CD Jodi and I are interested in:

Ukrainian plus Russian Phrases for children. :-)

I've updated our adoption How To Help page with a link to a language CD Jodi and I are interested in:

I've been reading Terry Pratchett's Thief Of Time, a light fantasy-sci-fi in the vein of Douglas Adams' H2G2 series or Terry Brooks' Magic Kingdom series, and really enjoying it. If that's your bag, do check out Pratchett's Discworld books. (3.5 out of 5 whatevers).

Dave writes about what I've always thought was a good idea but have a serious reason to care about now: we want to be able to subscribe to audio content feeds via something like RSS and get it downloaded directly to our iPods. I'd love to be able to have |NetNewsWire| automatically add any .mp3 enclosures to a special playlist in iTunes.

|Jodi| and I are celebrating 6 years of marriage today! On August 15, 1998, Jodi and I walked down the aisle in Episcopal Church of the Messiah and into that primary place in each others lives. We've had some hard times, but these 6 years have been wonderful.

Jodi: I get to speak these long coveted words:

So, Jodi and I got our first couple of packets of paperwork last night, and started filling out forms and such. This is a process that is going to involve wading through magnificent stacks of paperwork, but the reward will be worth it!

Some our our good friends and family have asked how they can help out in our adoption adventure. As a service to them I've created a How To Help page and linked to it from the adorable adoption graphic in the right sidebar of this page. Ok, now everyone go look at the cute graphic...

|Bill Brown|: Die Spammers! >If you are a comment spammer (or his bot representative), I wish only the most unspeakable evil on you. You are a blight on the Internet and whatever function you serve is disgusting, ignoble, and repugnant.

There's a Better Image Rotator over at A List Apart. Better, that is, than this one I posted about earlier.

This coming Sunday, Jodi and I will celebrate our 6th anniversary. It's been 6 awesome years with a woman I loved and appreciated, and have grown to respect and cherish. For most of those 6 years, Jodi and I have been trying to conceive, or TTC as it's called in the circles we find ourselves in.

I've been getting a lot of "referers" lately from an unnamed website, so I went in search of ways to block, or at least annoy, them. I found this article from Ed Costello on Blocking Referer Spam. I've implemented a variation on one of his techniques, targetted at this particular spammer. Now to see if it helps.

Just found a nifty image rotator in this A List Apart article: Random Image Rotation.