censoring yourself for Google AdSense…
So the other day I got an email from Google AdSense that was frustrating, to say the least… …frustrating because admittedly until earlier this week, I haven’t even posted anything to Just Laugh for a...
View Articlenew website – Scott’s Thoughts!
You know what they say – any day that you launch a new website is a good day… 😉 This is one that I actually started kicking ideas around for earlier this year, but didn’t really have the...
View ArticleAnother Big Project Completed…
This one being in the form of an entire website that I’ve actually been working on since about May – something that I put together for the D&D group that I play with every Wednesday… It’s kind of...
View ArticleI DO Love Me Some Pumpkin!
Hey, look – I got another project completed… Admittedly this one was a bit humorous the whole time I was working on it – the idea that this goofy, little blog about pumpkins that I threw together a...
View ArticleAn Evolution of Web Design
Sometimes it’s interesting to look back at the various websites that I’ve built over the years, to compare notes, to see how I’ve improved, and even sometimes just for a little bit of that embarrassing...
View ArticleIs it finally time for me to migrate from LiveJournal to WordPress???
As I’m getting ready to do a redesign of my main personal site, one of the questions that I keep coming back to is whether or not it’s finally time to just wave goodbye to LiveJournal and migrate...
View ArticleWhy are the best domain names always owned by cybersquatters???
Sometimes I think that there should be a rule about registering domain names if you’re not actually going to use them. I don’t know how it would be enforced or what the criteria would even be, but it’s...
View ArticleWordPress Bug Talk
I know that this one is going to get a little more technical than most, but after battling with WordPress over something that in retrospect just seems incredibly inane, I feel the need to pronounce my...
View ArticleConquering Regular Expressions
So in between battling puppy pee, I’ve also been fighting with regular expressions for the better part of the evening. To summarize, I hate regular expressions. I just don’t get the logic, never have,...
View Articledesigning and designing and designing…
If I would’ve had any idea that the project I’m working on would be this intensive … I still would’ve started it anyways, but boy, am I sure going to be happy when it’s finally done! I know I’ve been …...
View Articlenew D&D photo galleries @ tampadnd.org
So today’s big project was something that ended up taking a whole lot longer than I had expected, but at least I can say that I’m definitely happy with the results. Up until the latest one, I’ve been...
View Articlemigrating from LiveJournal – a technical love story
So if there’s one thing moving my blog from LiveJournal over to WordPress has reminded me, it’s just how much I absolutely, positively love WordPress! This is something that I’ve been planning to do on...
View ArticleThe Perils of an Opt-Out Web Service
Just the other day, another one of these crackpot, opt-out web services aimed at innovating the future came across my radar. Like pretty much all of them, it was brought to my attention by a deluge of...
View ArticleAutomating WordPress Backups to Dropbox
So several people have been bugging me for a while about signing up for Dropbox. I know they’re mostly just doing it for the 250 MB referral credit, but up until now I’ve never really had much desire...
View ArticleToday’s the Big Day – MyTimeWithTheMouse.com Launch!!!
This day has been a long time coming… 🙂 I don’t want to repeat myself too much because I’ve already got a lengthy introduction post over at the site itself, but let me tell you, it feels really good to...
View ArticlePlaces I’ve been, and so on and so forth…
http://www.scottsevener.com/about/places-ive-been/ This is something that I’ve wanted to do for a while, but just never sat down to actually put together. It’s kind of fun to not only speculate about...
View Articleblog. finally. done!
Well, check another one off the list, folks – what you see around you is as good as it’s gonna get! 😉 It’s kinda crazy that it’s been 8 months already since I first undertook the task of migrating my...
View ArticleHey, look – LiveJournal comments!
Frankly, I’m just as surprised as you are… I hadn’t exactly given up on getting my comments imported from LiveJournal after migrating the rest of the blog over last fall, but at the same time, it was...
View ArticleHumor Revisited
Some may have noticed that I’ve been kind of neglecting my humor column as of late. It’s not that I’ve stopped writing it altogether, even though that’s pretty much what a look at the archives might...
View ArticleWordPress Theme Malware
I’ve been working on a new WordPress redesign for one of my sites this weekend because my head just hasn’t been in the place to get much writing done, and for whatever reason I somehow stumbled onto...
View ArticleWordPress vs. DSO & APC
I’ve put off writing this post for a while now, partially because I’m still not sure that I understand it and partially to make sure that my “fixes” that I’ve put into place actually work! 🙄 So about a...
View ArticleA Look at Web Page Performance…
I’ve been experimenting around with performance tuning on my web server the last couple of days to try and work out some bizarre, high usage issues when (unfortunately) in reality none of my sites...
View ArticleDigging deeper into server issues…
I think I’m making progress, albeit in a number of avenues that I wasn’t necessarily expecting! One thing standing out that is seeming to be more of a problem than I would’ve thought is that simply put...
View ArticleMore From Scott’s Early Days of Blogging!
For years and years, my blog here on scottsevener.com was a mirror image of the blogging that I started over at LiveJournal – at least from 2003 – 2011, anyways, until I moved over here and stopped...
View ArticleHow long do you hold onto domain names you’re not using anymore?
I used to be of the mindset that because domain names are relatively cheap, there’s really no reason why a person’s assorted web projects shouldn’t stay online indefinitely. And yet right now, I’ve got...
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