Update: I’ve disabled a few plugins (you’ll probably never miss them); I’m not sure which was slowing things down so much, but since doing so, the site loads 2-4 times faster for me, according to my page load timer. That’s a definite plus, but it isn’t a bandwidth savings and I’d still like to trim [...]
Category Archive — Meta
Refactoring RickBeckman.org
By Rick
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Tagged dial-up Internet, website performance, Yahoo!
2008-01-08 – 20:50 EST
Now With 100% More Gravatars
By Rick
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Tagged home network
The combined effects of being joyful over a successful home network setup (see previous post), medicine, and flu symptoms have led me to install the Gravatars2 plugin.
What this means is that comments made here are now gravatar-enabled!
A gravatar (globally recognized avatar) is much like an avatar on a bulletin board or a buddy image on [...]
2008-01-05 – 03:08 EST
A Mite of Meta
By Rick
First, I updated my blogroll to include a few more faith blogs and another comic that I’ve been enjoying, so do enjoy the new destinations.
Second, Alicia & I have put some time into working on her photography site / blog. Looks good over there!
Third, the Fellowship Hall is running on the latest phpBB software again [...]
2007-11-11 – 10:55 EST
Hosting Plan Change
By Rick
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Tagged car insurance, DreamHost, USD, web host, web hosting
Okay, I admit, this doesn’t affect you, my beloved readers, in any way. However, I wanted to point out that I just saved a bundle on my car insurance web hosting!
In celebration of their ten year anniversary, the greatest web host in the world (hosting such can’t-miss sites as, well, this one!) consolidated all of [...]
2007-10-04 – 23:08 EDT
FAQ & Blogrolls
By Rick
Well, I’ve finally gotten around to adding my daily reads to my blogroll here. Some of them are theology and/or apologetics related; others are completely different. Whatever the case, as usual, I cannot vouch 100% for the content so exercise whatever due diligence you need in browsing to them. Check out the sites, though, and [...]
2007-08-21 – 16:48 EDT
