Latest Free XHTML Template: Business 3

March 21st, 2010

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Business 3 is a very clean and simple 2-column fixed-width design that is perfect for small business websites. It’s very easy to customize and has been tested in the latest versions of Firefox, IE, and Opera. It is released to the Public Domain so there are no restrictions on it’s use. Enjoy!

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Celebrate St. Paddy’s Day With Blasts from the Past

March 17th, 2010

Have I really been blogging for almost 4 years? Time has really flown by and I must say I’ve really enjoyed writing, sharing, creating using the magic of WordPress as my outlet.

Anyway, I was looking back to 2007 and in April of 2007 I released one of my most popular free XHTML templates called Ithilien. I still have people downloading it and writing comments about it and for that I’m really grateful.

On St. Patrick’s Day 3 years ago I also posted this little gem:

Here’s wishing you the top o’ life without a single tumble.
Here’s wishing you the smiles o’ life and not a single grumble.
Here’s wishing you the best o’ life and not a claw about it.
Here’s wishing you the joy in life and not a day without it.

And here’s another great blast from the past on video that kind of matches today’s festive feel:
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Thoughts About Change

March 12th, 2010

I love change…other people I know don’t seem to as much. They are much more comfortable with the familiar.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Alan Cohen

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Charles Dubois

Another Great Plugin:Conditional CAPTCHA for WordPress

March 6th, 2010

Although Akismet does a fine job of combatting comment spam, I was still getting a fair bit until a day or so ago.

What’s different?

I discovered, quite by accident, a great little plugin called Conditional CAPTCHA for WordPress. What this plugin does is compliment Akismet so that when Akismet identifies a comment as spam, the commenter is asked to complete a simple CAPTCHA. If the commenter fails to complete the CAPTCHA, then the comment is trashed and doesn’t clutter up the spam queue. Now if the commenter passes the CAPTCHA, the comment will appear in the spam queue so that false-positives can then be identified much easier.

I must say, this plugin is gold! So of course I want to thank the author, Ray of Solaris, for creating this very useful plugin. Because of you I’m now going to open up comments to the public on another blog I own since this is a time-saving plugin that will make comment moderation that much simpler. Thanks Ray!

Miracles

March 1st, 2010

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

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