Update on thenewneo.com
Just want to let you all know that I have succeeded in finding a web developer who will help me make the transfer. I’ll skip the lengthy saga of how hard it was to find such a person, and just … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Blogging and bloggers
The ups and downs of the fight against blog spam
I’m always interested in the spam cycles on the blog—which I assume merely reflect the spam cycles on WordPress and its anti-spam plugins. By “spam-cycles” I don’t mean anything to do with email, I’m taking about the bots (or whatever … Continue reading →
Post-hoarding, hazard of the blog trade
About two years ago I wrote a post about how many blog post drafts I was hoarding. Post-hoarding is a strange phenomenon I seem prone to, and this was my description back then: I didn’t see this coming – it … Continue reading →
I just noticed…
…that I’ve already written close to 1/3 the number of posts about Trump than I’ve written about Obama, although Trump’s only been president approximately 15% as long as Obama was. I think that’s right; I had to do the math … Continue reading →
Update on the new blog
Get on with it already!!, you may be thinking. But after the Big Crash of this site a few days ago—which remains undiagnosed, but which everyone is virtually 100% sure had nothing to do with my efforts at creating a … Continue reading →
The blog is still working, and…
…I’ve reactivated the comment edit function, which had somehow gotten lost in the crash. Let me know whether anything else here isn’t working properly for you (or anything at the new site, for that matter). One person said that the … Continue reading →
While it’s still working, let me just say…
…that at the moment I can post. At the moment. I haven’t heard yet this morning from the people at my host who’ve been hard at work on fixing the problem, so I don’t know whether this is a temporary … Continue reading →
Please donate to neo-neocon
[BUMPED UP: Please scroll down for today’s new posts. I’ll bump this up through the weekend, and then retire it.] Of course, you can donate any time, but twice a year I make a special plea, and I hope you’ll … Continue reading →
Update on the new blog format
So, where’s that new blog format I promised? I realize most of you have not been sitting on a hot stove waiting, but you might be wondering. It may come as no surprise that I hit a little snag when … Continue reading →
Childhood is the kingdom: Millay reading Millay
I find that lately I’ve been pulling back ever-so-slightly from day-to-day politics. It’s not that I’m not writing about that sort of thing; I definitely still am. I just find that, for the most part, the stories du jour are … Continue reading →
I think all of you will be happy to hear…
…that through sheer driven bulldog pursuit, I managed to come up with some code (and where to put it) that changed the font in the compose comments box of the new blog. That awful hideous Courier is no more! Now … Continue reading →
More questions for you all about changes on the new blog format
Quite a few people requested a sans serif font. The theme doesn’t give me access to all fonts, but of the ones from which I had to choose, I selected what I think is the best sans serif font and … Continue reading →