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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Neglecting this blog
It's come to my attention recently that I've been neglecting this blog. I probably should do something about that. It's not like I've stopped writing or anything. So, I'll try to remember that I actually like writing here and go forward from there.In All Things #15 (Gabrielle)
Today I am thankful for the Church. Yessiree, that there Body of Christ is one wacky bunch. I have been in the church my entire life and I still don't get how it works. Somehow this collection of losers, sinners, arrogant fools, freaks and weirdos all get lumped together and made into something beau
Today I am thankful for clean laundry. It happens so infrequently around here that most of the laundry in the house is cleanish or at least not scattered on anyone's floor that I get really excited when I think it might happen. It never actually happens, of course, because all of the people in this
Today I am thankful for Flyleaf's new album Memento Mori. Their first album was excellent, but they have topped themselves with their second. It's kind of music that makes me want to dance and sing and cry. They understand life and sing about it in song-sized chunks. Pain, fear, glory, Heaven. The lWarriors 3 to be part of new Thor movie
Via Cinematical: The ranks of Asgard are just about full! Marvel Studios reports that the Warriors Three will be joining Thor in all of his frosty battles, and as usual, Kenneth Branagh has done a bang up job with the casting. Stuart Townsend, Tadanobu Asano, and Ray Stevenson have joined the cas
Good lists from io9: 15 Dumbest Superhero Retcons and 7 Superhero Stories Too Big For Movies. Good reading.326
Peoria Landmark #326
Today I am thankful for late night talks with Seth and Crystal. It seems like some of our best conversations have happened at mumble-thirty or later. Most of the time I'm stupid tired the next day, but I'm usually emotionally settled and back on track to do what I'm here for. Thank you, Seth and
This weekend didn't go quite the way I was expecting. We had a busy couple of days scheduled with Night of the Burning Plum and family coming in from out of town. Crystal and I were gearing up for stashing six more people someplace in this house and then feeding them repeatedly. The Lansberrys were
The Azeroth Chronicles, B2, Ch.1, pt.3
It is early morning, and the smoldering embers from the fires of the night before still warm those that sleep. Korrock is preparing his horse for the long ride out of this cursed land. You can smell the aromas of fall in the crisp chilly air. It's a good morning for a warrio
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well yeah.. but then we'd pretend where we'd spend our share of the 'loot'. (More)
Hey guys, was it something I said? No one is writing. I need my blog fix at least once a day. Oh, Joe, where are you? I need you to make me laugh. I hope everyone is OK, I'm kinda lost without you guys. SOMEBODY WRITE!! Love you all, Julia (More)
Soledad O’Brien is such a phony. In April 2008, Reverend Jeremiah Wright gave a speech in Detroit to the NAACP. One of the things that he said in this speech was that black and white children learn with different parts of their brain, and then gave an "unflattering imitation of the way white (More)
Dingeldine Hall at Bradley. Had to "google street map" this to be sure. (More)
That pipeline was built to transport petroleum products from barges to the Amoco and Mobile Oil tank farms built in that area in 1947-1948. (More)
This is why I think that in the new heavens and the new earth we will all be naked. There's no way dirty laundry can exist in a perfect world. (More)
he is my nephew and to all of you that dont know the whole truthful story that he covered up for someone else need to shut the fuck up. you dont know the cruel and horribly abusive parents he had if anything they should be responsible and punished for this. i love you martize and we will get you hom (More)