Well, actually, no. He’s at work. Work has ramped up a bunch here lately. That means OT and that posts will (continue to) be a little sporadic for a bit.
I know you folks won’t know what to do with all the time in your schedule that frees up. Don’t worry, you’ll think of something.

I’m bored with the look of the site, as I’ve said before. The place is just too busy, too much info battling for your attention. Someday I’ll actually get that redesign done, but for now just a new banner image.
That’s the Beautiful Mazda Ryuga concept car from the 2007 North American International Auto Show in Detroit this past January.

For most of my regular readers, this won’t be of interest to you, but I’ve wanted to post this letter for some time.
Inspired by a similar letter from Jesse Gardner over at Movable Tweak, I present this open letter to Six Apart (6A), the company that makes Moveable Type (MT), the blogging software that powers salguod.net. Jesse’s letter was from the perspective of a professional using Movable Type and developing sites with it and dealt with where 6A should go with MT. Mine is from the perspective of a personal user and freeloader. In other words, an individual blogger using the free version of MT with no support from 6A. One might think that as a freeloader, I have no right to complain, that’s part of the deal, no complaints. In a sense, you’re right, but I think that 6A does itself a disservice by not taking care of the freeloaders, at least on some level with good documentation and easy access to online support info (which would benefit the paid users as well). After all, we have jobs at companies that might want to get into blogging and we know people that work at companies that might want to get into blogging – . I’ve been asked by people who only know me by my personal blog for advice on what blogging software I’d recommend for them or their company.

Continue reading “MovableType From a Freeloader’s Perspective”

On e of my favorite bloggers, Patrick Mead, has seen the light and moved from Blogger to his own domain and spiffy WordPress blogs.
His main blog is now at patrickmead.net and Tent Pegs is now at patrickmead.net/tentpegs.
I’ve updated my links, update yours.

This is a test post with BlogEx plugin for Maxthon.  Did the category stick?

Remember the salguod.net gallery? Well, I don’t blame you since there isn’t a link on the site anywhere. Some day I’ll fix that.
Anyway, I’ve been quietly adding to the gallery since I created it this summer after the Good Guys show in July. Since then I’ve put up galleries for Thunderbirds I’ve seen (mostly at other events), the Good Guys events I’ve been to in 2003, 2005 & 2006, the cruise in I went to at Hooters of all places, shots from the 2004, 2005 & 2006 North American International Auto Show in Detroit and a gallery of pictures of my Thunderbird.
Go have a look.

Another test of the Maxthon BlogEX plugin, now with better MT support, inlcuding categories.

You may have noticed, some rather, uh, specific, spam comments have been getting through the last few days. I’ve been using the Weblog Defense Grid, a combination of anti-spam plugins combined with a comprehensive set of filters for MT’s Spamlookup that has been quite effective until now.
However, some rather determined spammers have found a way around those filters and plugins, so a little tweaking was required. Hopefully that will keep them at bay for a while.
Sorry to anyone who was exposed to some of the more, uh, specific spam. Yuck.

Testing posting through my Maxthon browser using the BlogEX plugin.

It’s got a WYSIWYG editor & works with Blogger, WordPress, MS Spaces, Live Journal and Typepad too.

If you are reading this, it worked.

Thought you ought to know, in case you were wondering. Not much to say though.
Went to a great retreat with my Dad and his church last weekend. Lots of good teaching and good talks. Not so good music. Mostly fluffy ‘praise’ music that leaves me, I don’t know, wishing there had been other music? Repetative and hollow, but some was OK. Really needed to break out a hymnal. Did learn some good stuff, maybe I’ll post on it later.
But mostly, I’m just reading other blogs and living life. Kinda have blogger’s block. Be back later.