Jim Lynch: Off the Top of My Head…

I’ve had a change of heart about putting columns on this blog. When I first left ET I was going to use this as a place for news blogging and also for opinion columns. But I’ve decided it makes more sense to put the opinion columns on Jim Lynch: Tech Analyst and Community Manager rather [...]

I put up a ratings system. So click the stars to rate the posts you like/hate/whatever.

After putting this on hiatus for a few years, I decided to bring it back as I miss commenting on technology news from time to time. So here it is, I’ll be adding a different Word Press theme soon but for now we’ll go with this.

If you came earlier in the week and couldn’t access the blog, sorry about that. My hosting company had been pointing to an older version of my account and it messed everything up for a while. It’s fixed now though so all is well.

You can thank World of Warcraft for this blog not being updated much lately. It has been sucking up vast quantities of my free time, at the moment though I’m taking a break to recharge my batteries. I got my mage all the way up to level 38 in a very short period of time [...]

Just a heads up, I’ve installed the Spam Karma plugin. This should filter out all the nasty comment spam. It does have a validation thing in it but I think you have to do something to trip it to get it to appear. So far it seems to be picking up all the nasty crap. [...]

I’ve switched themes from the default 1.5 theme to one called Clean Breeze. I’ll be tweaking the top graphic and the background in a bit. I think this is better than the default one, even as is though. Thanks to Chris for creating the theme. Nice job. I particularly like how the quotes from articles [...]

You might have noticed that I’m running ads on this blog. Each time you click on an ad that interests you, I get paid a certain amount of money from the Google AdSense program. The ads help cover bandwidth costs. Please also note: Just because an advertisement for a product appears here that does not [...]

I’ve been preoccupied with Linux World and the Beehive review. Hopefully I should be back to regular blogging tomorrow or the day after. Whew! Long day! :shock:

Sorry, no blogging for the last two days. I have a sore throat and don’t feel well. Ugh. Probably be back Monday or so.

The gigantic list of categories and the relatively long list of monthly archives are gone. I’ve added two drop down menus. Thank goodness, the category list was getting WAY out of control. :shock: BTW, the plugin I used for the drop down can be gotten here. Thanks, Ria!

I had a slight accident with the index and css files I was using before. I’m waiting for my hosting company to email the backups to me. I…um…well…I replaced them with another design to see what it looked like, thinking that I had them backed up on my local drive but I didn’t. Oops! My [...]

In honor of the holidays, I’ll be taking some time off. I’ll probably be back sometime in January, most likely at the beginning of the new year but maybe not. I may put the blog to sleep for a while. We’ll see, I think I’m in need of a blog snooze for a bit. If [...]

Just a heads up, I’ve changed the format of the ads. The huge top banner is gone, I’ve replaced it with a strip on the left and the ads at the bottom of the comments page are at the top of the page (minus the borders). I think this will help make it easier to [...]

Pardon the way the left nav strip looks right now. I’m trying to tweak the CSS and I’m having some problems. I moved some stuff over to the left that was way at the bottom. But the CSS is giving me a headache. I want it to look the way the text does in the [...]

Very sorry to have to do it but the spammers have forced me to set up a validation system. When you go to post a comment you will have to enter the validation code displayed in the comment post area. Hopefully this will eliminate the flood of spam that has come onto my blogs recently. [...]

If you post a comment, be aware that it will go into a moderation area before appearing in the entry that you posted it to. I’ve gotten way too much comment spam and what looks like test comments by the spammers. So I’ve set everything up so that all comments are moderated before being released. [...]

I’ve made a tweak that turns on popup comments for the front page of this blog. Please let me know how you like it. I think it might be easier than going to the individual entry page to make a comment. I don’t care for the dark brown background color of the popup comments page [...]

Sorry, I’ve been totally preoccupied with the election returns. No blog entries for today (except this one). :mrgreen:

You might notice that the blog has changed a bit. I’ve had it redesigned. What you see up here still may change a bit in the days ahead but this is as far as we’ve gotten so far. Thanks to Root for his excellent work. Be sure to reload, otherwise it might look a bit [...]