Well if you are using the WordPress.com Stats Plugin, there is a slight bug or an annoyance. If you don’t put the full title you want prior to the first time it auto saves, it will be the partial title, or the all lovely: ?p=123. I just started noticing this a few days ago, my last post, I didn’t know what to exactly say for a title, so now in WP.com Stats’ database, it shows up as “Kid Vote” or something along those lines.

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Yesterday I upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1, as well as upgraded the Askimet plugin. So, just do a quick look before you hit delete all.

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I was just given a beta invite to Socialspark, which I am not sure why/how I got an invite. After a bit of looking around, it turns out that Socialspark is just a spin-off of PayPerPost. In fact, Socialspark is made by PayPerPost’s parent company, IZEA.

It is supposed to provide a social atmosphere that connects advertisers to the people who blog/talk about their brands the most. Mike Arrington did a review over at TechCrunch, he said this is just something that pollutes the blogosphere because instead of bloggers doing open-minded reviews of sites, they are paid to do it. Which I never liked the PayPerPost idea. A person I know, has half their content with PayPerPost sponsored posts.

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While I the layout is nothing special, except for the write a post page, the color scheme is terrible. The first time I saw it, I had to look away do to the colors. I am quite sorry to say, who ever has designed the admin panel, needs to read up on contrasting. Considering the panel came from Happy Cog Studios, which is headed by Jeffrey Zeldman, this just makes me even more sad.

Sidenote About the Write a New Post Page

I have to give this a thumbs down as well. It seems like it is set for somebody who is blogging in the contributer or writer role, not an administrator. On my 17-inch screen, I have to scroll to get to one of WordPress’ key features, the categorizing of the post. Seeing how I am a big keyboard user, all this makes me do is use the mouse more. I will leave out the minimal access you get if you navigate by keyboard in the most important part of the panel.

So, in conclusion, the biggest thing that was widely acclaimed about, is nothing but disappointment for me. The one thing that is particularly nice is the built-in feeling of the WordPress Stats plugin. I cannot wait until the Popularity Contest plugin gets updated.

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I don’t buy that fully. The welcome page, talks about how in restaurants you drop your business card in a box or something to win yourself a free lunch. The way Entrecard works is an user puts a small piece of [javascript] code somewhere on their blog, and other Entrecard users click the gold bar at the bottom to “drop their card.”

You gain 1 credit per card you drop, and another credit per card dropped by others on your blog. What then do is use your credits to buy space on other blogs. So you may see something other than an image saying my blog title near the bottom of the side bar, that means somebody paid to advertise on my site.

In the help section, they post a final note on dropping your card. They encourage you to read at least one post and comment before dropping your card. I know I try to read a few lines of the post before dropping my card.

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I was just reloading my Gmail, and as you can see, something went wrong and didn’t load properly. I just had to laugh. It shows you how much manipulating it takes to have Gmail display the way it does.

At first I was like uh what in the world, then I did some playing around. Firefox has this built-in feature that allows you to wipe out all that fancy styling that is used, and let’s you see what the bare bones HTML looks like. Take a look at Gmail, it gets pretty nasty to look at. No wonder it fails at validation.

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Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.

I checked with a friend and they could log in fine, how weird is that? Is anybody else having an issue with it? I joined Facebook not too long after it launched, this is the first time I can recall not being able log in due to maintenance. Can you log in?

One thing people tend to not know very widely is that if your browser’s default search engine is Google, you can just type G in your address bar, and boom you are ported to GMail. Pretty snazzy trick, huh? (I actually removed GMail bookmark from my toolbar because of this.) It’s pretty nice if you have a notifier so you don’t have to monitor a tab.

Well, for some reason starting yesterday at work, this trick doesn’t work anymore. When you go to “G”, you are directed towards a search result of g. Yesterday when I started this post, I found nothing in my feed list about this. I am quite shocked. I am also a bit bummed that something occurred which made this nice Easter egg vanish.

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However, I will probably let it convert some of my music to mp3 once I dig through my library and find the non-mp3s. For a while I was using iTunes for that.

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Say I am a well-known programmer in some language, let’s just say Eric Meyer, I may have a book or two under my belt, but I found a new trick to do. Where would I probably put my finding? My blog. Pushing out a new book for one or two things may not be worth it. But then again we have textbooks with new editions for subjects that always doesn’t have new material, rather new editions that have a few errors corrected, maybe a few new problems corrected.

This could be extrapolated to a larger audience. If you think about it everything that is ever communicated, initiated as an idea. Yes, most things have been based on something from the past.

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