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My Favorite Spammers

By Justin Tadlock on October 3, 2007

As any good blogger knows, spam is evil. They also know that if you break into Technorati’s top 1,000,000 list, then Akismet’s Spam Blocker is a necessity.
Today, however, I’m going to honor my favorite spammers by giving them a front page post. They spend a lot of time around here constantly trying [...]

Tagged akismet, blog, drugs, email, ip address, porn, spam, spam blocker, spammer, WordPress | 17 Responses

Cleaning Up Your WordPress Blog & Other Extreme Sports

By Justin Tadlock on September 30, 2007

With the summer ending and the autumn chill in the air, which is actually quite nice, I felt that it was time to do some major housecleaning. No, not by breaking out the mop and broom—but my brain, fingers, keyboard, and sheer force of will (I should probably break out the mop and broom [...]

Tagged ags, blog, Bookmarks, cleaning files, Custom Fields, features, links, pages, plugins, Tips, WordPress | 15 Responses

I’ll Return To The Blogosphere Soon

By Justin Tadlock on April 12, 2007

Yes, that’s right. I’ll be back to blogging very, very soon. Life’s just been non-stop this week. I’ve probably had, at most, an hour of downtime today. I’ve been going since 5:30 this morning. A good part of tomorrow will be the same, but I should have a few minutes to [...]

Tagged blog, Blogging, blogosphere, busy | 2 Responses

Attack Of The Email Forward!

By Justin Tadlock on April 8, 2007

This past week I found this picture waiting in my inbox from my Uncle David. So, I decided to use it for this week’s Mundane Monday: Attack of the Email Forward!
You can join in the game at Mundane Monday, a new meme for bloggers to participate in.

Tagged blog, bloggers, community, game, meme, mundane monday | 3 Responses

5 Things I Love/Hate About Monday

5 Things I Love/Hate About Monday

By Justin Tadlock on April 1, 2007

I’ll be doing “5 Things I Hate About Monday” because it’s just easier. You can join in the game at Mundane Monday, a new meme for bloggers to participate in.

Waking up early. This week more so because I’ve been lazy for a week during my Spring Break.
Realizing that I should’ve washed clothes [...]

Tagged blog, bloggers, community, game, meme, mundane monday | 10 Responses

Celebrating My 300th Post!

By Justin Tadlock on February 5, 2007

Today is a very special day in this site’s history. It is my 300th blog post.
One might be led to ask, “Why is 300 so special?”
Okay, it’s nothing great, really. I’ve just been counting the posts until I reached this point. A couple of months ago, I realized I had quite a [...]

Tagged blog, Blogging | 2 Responses

Passed 200 Posts

By Justin Tadlock on August 23, 2006

Just a quick note. I’ve now went beyond that magic number of 200 on posts in my blog. Of course, I still have a few more months worth of posts to add to my Old Blogs.

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