It has come to my attention that people attend conferences about blogging. The whole thing reminds me of journalism conventions and conferences, which are mostly about getting away from the wife for the purpose of doing things you don’t want you wife to know about. In addition to the fees necessary to attend... »
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It’s that time again: Pledge Day. Any donations made go toward costs incurred, such as annual domain renewal, two site hosting accounts, professional support and high speed Internet. You can use the PayPal donate button on this page. You can use any major credit card OR... »
‘How to create a WordPress blog post’
This is a brief YouTube video that some really new users might find helpful. If you are considering participating inj the Blog Peoria Project, but worry about switching from a familiar format — like Blogger.com — to an unfamiliar platform, this should alleviate your... »
New blog registrations simplified
I have turned off the “captchas” feature that was supposed to stop all the spam blog creation. It wasn’t really working anyway. So I decided to instead just limit blog registrations to the following email domains: sbcglobal.net comcast.net gmail.com yahoo.com bradley.edu hotmail.com peoriapundit.com blogpeoria.com msn.com att.net aol.com »
No more Buddy Press, alas …
I deactivated the Buddy Press plugin and all the site issues went away. So, I won’t be re-activating Buddy Press. And it’s just as well, since it wasn’t used much. »
All plugins are temporarily disabled
This is a step I took to help be figure out what is causing the problem with members blogs switching themes, settings with other member blogs. I notice that it seems to have alleviated the problem. But I’ve been fooled before. I’ll leave them... »
Advice for picking a new theme
I’ve recently replaced every available user theme at the Blog Peoria Project, which cut the number of available themes almost in half. Some of you had to pick new themes, or you were shunted over to the default Blog Peoria theme. And some of BBP... »
Welcome PH Pundit
PH Pundit blogs out of Peoria Heights. Now, all we need are Chillicothe Pundit, Dunlap Pundit, Bartonville Pundit, Hanna City Pundit, East Peoria Pundit, you get the picture. And my offer to help anyone migrate from Blogger to Blog Peoria stands. »
Celebrate Blogger’s birthday by moving to the Blog Peoria Project
Sunday is the 10th anniversary of Blogger, the little company started by Pyra Labs that opened the floodgates for blogging and citizen journalism. This free service let people go to a Web site, write someone in an empty form field, his a “publish” button,... »
Blog Peoria Project adopts new, better form of spam protection
Akismet doesn’t work. Too many spam comments find their way through. Too many legitimate comments find themselves sent to the spam filter. I long ago dumped Akismet on Peoria Pundit and my other blogs. I switched to a plugin called Wp Spam Filter. And... »
How to embed photos and other media on your blog
I’ve gotten a few questions about how to do this. The following video is from WordPress.TV a great site go get videos full of helpful hints. »
Site restore complete (almost) UPDATE: Finally completed
As I promised, I tried to upgrade to the latest version of the WordPress Mu software that powers Blog Peoria. It failed. I caused date from one blog to be stored on others. Posts were lost and themes were switched. We had to revert back... »
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Starhawk's Winter Calendar
Starhawk's Winter Calendar--Online Course, talks, workshops, Earth Activist Training I was pleasantly surprised to find that Starhawk is a member of the Pagan Permaculture list that I joined this week. On her website, Starhawk describes herself as the "author of many works celebrating the GoddeIn All Things #4 Part 2 (Gabrielle)
The library had a book sale and I went and spent five bucks and got lots of books. So today I'm also thankful for book sales and the libraries that put them on.
Today I am thankful for leftover oatmeal. Not just because it makes breakfast the next day so much simpler, but because it gives me a reason to feel creative and thrifty. So today I opened up two containers of oatmeal that were the leftovers from two different days. I put them in a pot and added
I am SO not into the 2012, End of the Mayan Calendar, boo-hoo-hoo, but this came across on the email group that I just joined. Som parts of this are just common sense and the rest comes from somebody who's been staring at the sun for too long: THE 2012 MANIFESTO HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE COMING
Last night I was super tired. Wednesday Night Dinner can be a lot of work and often when it's over I'll be dead-tired and really wound up. Sometimes, like last night, my legs will be aching and my body will just be worn out, but I'll be too wound up to go to sleep. It could make for a hard time goin
The Azeroth Chronicals - Book II, The Return of the Kingdoms
To start things off, this is a work of fiction based on the characters and content of the World of Warcraft. There is no intention by the author to to steal copyrighted material or abuse it in anyway whatsoever. This is only to tell a story of a direction that I would take the game if I had the
Today I made a superhero for medical terminology class. We're supposed to make up twelve medical terms, using real medical term parts, and draw a cartoon character who has all of those conditions. So I drew up Epiguy who has exacidoptysis (spitting out acid) and anamyomegaly (excessive enlargement o
Today I am thankful for bananas. Those crazy yellow fruits are so versatile and yummy. You can cut them up into cereal for a breakfast treat; you can smother them in peanut butter for a snack; you can mush them up to feed to the baby and, of course, you can throw them at each other hoping they willSweet Agatha initial impressions
I don't have a lot of time, so this will be somewhat impressionistic. Yay! Sweet Agatha came in the mail! Ooh...pretty envelope. Open...carefully. Hmm. Yeah, okay. But it's so pretty! I don't want to cut that up. But, what new images will appear when I do? Wow. That's emotionally h- Looking for the herd!
I have been on this interesting and very bewildering hunt for some time now. It has been so elusive in fact that at times I feel like the old time African explorer or Indiana Jones possibly. What I do not understand is how the focus of my search can be so incredibly elusive as it has been. To
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RE: Keeping anyone from crossing the Mexico/US border in Nevada. That must be one hell of a tunnel. (More)
Oh Julia, I don't remember the dentists name, but we went to him to. What a quack. Don't think he knew what a cleaning or filling was. He just loved to pull teeth. Or maybe our parents just couldn't dental prevention, so it was an extraction or nothing. Yes that's where they located. Didn't re (More)
Hey Raquel! You're writing is so entertaining. I'm really enjoying perusing the blog. Hope you are having a very blessed week! (More)
Glad you're enjoying it. Go ahead, cut it to ribbons, it's what she would want. (More)
Amen and Amen! (More)
When I was a student, there were a few times that we got to draw also. I have fond memories of these projects. For me, it always felt cathartic to take a break from my typical homework and complete something in crayon. If I was writing a compilation of blog posts on giving thanks, I'd definitel (More)