The Flight Deck

I’ve just  deleted about 168 “contributors” who have the lowest level of access to the back end here. I didn’t recognize any of the names, many of them were obvious spam, and too many of  them came with “.ru” extensions on their email addresses. Loth as I am to discriminate based on country, there are [...]

So, when you allow open registration on a blog, all kinds of bugs can creep in through the cracks. They don’t get posting privileges – ergo, access to my database – until I’ve upgraded their status from “contributor” to “editor.” Because you don’t want just anyone putting stuff up on your little slice of the [...]

The latest WordPress update – “Coltrane” – has been added to the back end. Feel free to play around with it (it grows on you), or check out the introductory video at the link. Lex, out. Bookmark to: Hide Sites

The back end may look a little different to frequent habitués, for your host has upgraded you to the newest standard, like. Let me know if there’s something else you’d like to see. That won’t get me in trouble. Bookmark to: Hide Sites

Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian friends! Bookmark to: Hide Sites

When there are already a gozillion blogs out there, what does a sane, rational man do? Why, set up his own, of course. For those of you who didn’t already see it (and a number of you have ), it’s at http://jeopardyinmd.blogspot.com/. FWIW, there’s a picture of the baby on yesterday’s post.  Always a crowd-pleaser. [...]

Spent the morning cleaning up around here so that you wouldn’t have to. Kind of guy I am. What’s left? Bookmark to: Hide Sites

We’ve just upgraded the back end to WordPress 2.2.1, in case you can’t tell. I don’t know that you’ll see many significant changes to your user interface, but do drop me a note is something isn’t just the way it ought to be. Should be a bit snappier on the front end load, and if [...]

Say Lex, I’m *really* getting to like the subject matter in the header these days – is it an epiphany or just the noise Nose, Skippy, et al are making? – SJS Bookmark to: Hide Sites

Well, I’ve decided that as long as I’m going to keep doing this blogging thing, I may as well go all the way. Ergo, I’ve been working on a new site (many thanks to Curt for his help and encouragement along the way) and would like to get the comments of the esteemed assemblage at [...]