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Great WordPress plugin

David — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:56:02 +0000

I’ve been working on the blog a bit in the background – some functional and technical things that I wanted to change, and have slowly been resolving.

One of the items on my list has been to figure out a way to get my automated Twitter “life stream” hidden from the blog homepage. I figure, if someone wants to see my Twitter posts, they’ll either look at my Twitter page, or look at the Twitter category in my blog. I think it’s more important to showcase and highlight my actual posts instead. Plus, on my homepage I have the most recent tweets displayed.

I was going to script something to do it, but instead I came across the plugin “Simply Exclude” by CodeHooligans.

I’m quite impressed. After installing the plugin, within 1-minute I had the Twitter category removed from my homepage. No coding or scripting needed!

The only glitch is that if you tag a post in multiple categories, and one of those categories is excluded, it too will come off the homepage. Maybe this is something that will be fixed in the next version.

2009 website in review

David — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:45:08 +0000

I’ve been meaning to post this for a couple of weeks, and I’m just getting around to it.

I did something interesting with my website. I took a look at my stats, and created a neat-looking word cloud, based on the keywords that people enter in search engines to get to my website.

It’s quite interesting to see.

dmpP website word cloud for 2009

Website v7.0 is now live

David — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:05:11 +0000

Have you seen it yet? If not, head over to www.dmpp.net and enjoy!

What do you think of it?

I think this is a keeper… until I get bored of looking at it (again).

New web design is launched

How much spam could a spambot spot if a spambot could spot spam?

David — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:32:46 +0000

The amount of spam that I’ve started to receive is just incredible. I get about 600 a day!

So, in an effort to block the spam, I’ve setup a few spambot’s to bounce-back spam to the sender. If anyone gets a bounce-back, please give me a call and let me know so I can put your address in the white list.

Earth hour

David — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:51:54 +0000

It’s almost here…

60,000km

David — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:30:26 +0000

Well, I can’t believe how fast time goes by!

Today, I hit the 60,000km mark on the car… not too shabby since I’ve only had it about 23 months!

Champagne for everyone!

my kilometer reading

Holidays

David — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:50:50 +0000

Well, this year’s Boxing Day has come and gone… Mostly uneventful… Got some shopping in… Didn’t have any major purchases to do, so I didn’t participate in the annual insane boxing day 2am line-up. Perhaps next year we’ll re-establish the tradition.

Wonderday holiday party 2008

David — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:28:47 +0000

Well, the party was a hoot…. great food… great people… even the police made a showing…

Had a good time…

For photos – check out the Wonderday website

New photo gear

David — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:52:09 +0000

I’ve got my new Canon gear, and I’m lovin’ it!

Here are some of my latest shots with the new setup…

Click one of the thumbnails to view the full version.

New blog launched

David — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:19:10 +0000

Aside from posting new photos, I’ve also completed the new blog design. YAY!

New photography portfolio posted

David — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:59:15 +0000

I’ve finally had time to go through my photos and post new ones in my portfolio.

Check it out, and let me know what you think.

Chapsticks were received

David — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:17:57 +0000

After waiting for so long, and following up with Wyeth, I finally received my free Chapsticks – cudos to them for stepping up to the plate.