Minor housekeeping and such this evening. Pay no mind if you’re looking for actual, you know, words and stuff.

Dropped the 2.3.1 wordpress upgrade and a couple wp-plugs in/out/upgraded. I dropped the Technorati tag generator in favor of a newer iconic one. Saves an extra line on the posts and makes it nice and easy to cloud into the local site or techno. Still looking for good cloud and link widgets. I can’t believe someone else hasn’t hit on something similar to what I want yet. Oh well, maybe I’ll finish writing mine.

I was moving through the Akismet catches from last week and there was actually a comment-spam from a technorati category. Not sure if that’s supposed to be funny or sad, but I chuckled…

edit: Some days I just don’t understand…

Tags: blogging, spam, technorati, wordpress

So I was browsing the referrer/stats/miscellany this afternoon and one of the links I followed led me to the best non-porn use on the interwebs - free shit. Take My Tech is a blog listing various pieces of used “tech stuff” and invites users to post comments for any item they’re interested in. When the comments ding 100, a random commenter gets the goods.

The  site is powered by AdSense which funds the transfer of the goods and, I’m assuming, a little profit. Take a look, drop a post, you might get lucky!

Tags: adsense, blogging, take my tech

Pushing Daisies, however, most definitely is.

This is the best new show I’ve seen in a crop of pretty damn good shows.

I love the cast.
I love the cinematography.
I love the premise.

Watch this show.

edit: because some of you won’t get it…

Tags: pushing daisies, television

As is fast becoming infamous, I watch a lot of TV. So it’s no surprise when I break down the new hotness every fall.

All good.

• Chuck (NBC, Monday)
• Journeyman (NBC, Monday)
• Reaper (CW, Tuesday)
• Dirty Sexy Money (ABC, Wednesday)
• Lucy The Daughter of the Devil (Toon, Sunday)
• Bionic Woman (NBC, Wednesday)

All bad.

• Big Bang Theory (CBS, Monday)

On the bubble.

• Big Shots (ABC, Thursday)
• Moonlight (CBS, Friday)

Did you actually want commentary? Yeash. Pushy bastards…

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Tags: abc, big bang theory, big shots, bionic woman, cartoon network, cbs, chuck, dirty sexy money, journeyman, lucy the daughter of the devil, moonlight, nbc, reaper, television, the cw

In my previous lamentations regarding the recent Wordpress 2.3 upgrade I bemoaned the lack of good options for splicing the new tagging into Technorati, which I had already grown accustomed to using. Will Garcia over at Gormful.com apparently shared my angst and, as coders do, solved the problem.

Enter WP23-Technorati-Tags. A few code changes to the theme and voila. The already-handled tagging supplies both local-cloud links and Technorati links. It’s a little redundant, ’tis true, but I’m sure I (or most likely someone else) will find a more elegant way to present that information. On first blush I’m thinking that use a “cloud” display for the local tags and leave the techno ones in the clean list format.

hmm, that is a good idea. Mayhaps I’ll look into that!

Now if I could only get WP to automatically put ALL of my posts into the same, single, ALREADY DEFAULT category we’d be golden.

I love upgrades.

Tags: plugins, technorati, wordpress