If you're running Wordpress for you blog no doubt you're getting blog comment spam on a daily basis. I never really thought to much about it Wordpress ships with Akismet.

While Akismet does a great job in catching most of the comment spam it still requires you to wade through all of the spam, and delete it.

A little more than a month ago, after answering my wife's questions of is this spam or not on her blog Cloez's Corner I started looking for a better solution, or a solution that would allow both of us to spend our time being more productive.

After all I'm sure you'd agree that you have better things to do then spend time looking through all the Wordpress Comment Spam that comes in each day, right! Most of us, myself included probably really don't grasp the problem as far as what a time waster it is. Read more

This past Saturday, I finally decided to get to work with the Wordpress Thesis theme. I wanted to create a static front page and also have a blog section. The challenge arose with you guessed it duplicate titles and duplicate description fields.

Although I should be fair I do believe it had more to do with using the All-In-One-SEO wordpress plugin then anything to do with either Thesis or Wordpress. It took me almost 6 hours to get it setup, seems like no matter what I tried it just would not work.

Essentially the theme does not really need any SEO plugins to be effective anymore. Yet, I'm kind of hesitant to give up the SEO control to a template. I really did like the All-In-One-SEO plugin, yet all I really used it for was the auto-description function, call most of us lazy!

After hours of research, trying just about everything I finally logged into the database and completely removed Headspace2 and any reference to All-In-One-SEO. After this was done things finally began to progress. Read more

Moving two of my blogs to the Thesis Wordpress theme now completed; I wanted to use my favorite blog software Marsedit.

The feature I really like is the preview function, being able to see what the post will look like.

This is where I ran into an issue with Thesis, I had pretty much left the settings to the defaults as far as font size etc... I did however change the font to use Arial. When viewing the preview in Marsedit with the Thesis theme, it would not display correctly.

The theme's body was only about 80 percent of the width of the header graphic. I spent a few hours chasing CSS etc... trying to fix this display issue. I was finally able to solve it within Marsedit by changing the font size. Read more

When I received the email from Google about their new interest based advertising that is due to roll out in April it caused me to question just what are they thinking.

I think it will be interesting to see how this actually works. It does seem like it will take relevancy away, yet they indicate it should make it as relevant as possible. This change from based on the current content to what your overall interest is based on surfing history could cause issues for some.

One thought came to mind, that is parental control. This could now allow parents to really discover what interest their children. Simply by going to a website that displays google ads and seeing what actually shows up.

It also means now that each family member will have to have a individual account on the family computer. Otherwise my guess is it would become so confused it would not know exactly what to display. Or the most dominant computer user in the home would set the preference for the ads everyone else views. Read more