This was on the bottom of my SoBe bottle cap today. 50 points to the first person who can, without referencing any source outside their own skull, leave a comment telling us where this quote is from (sadly, I already know so this is just for fun):

NEO-MAXI
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DWEEBIE

As a tip o’ the hat to good ol’ Marketing 101 — that is, if it ain’t sellin’ change the labelin’ — and rather than create any decent/clever/relevant content, other than links, for the blog, I took some time to install/configure/customize a new theme for the site. Nifty, ain’t it? :) Check out the archives link (top of the page) — it’s all generated on-the-fly. Also, supposedly, (registered) users can create (or maybe it’s just add) ‘tags’ to posts, although I have yet to explore this feature to see if/how it works. If anyone wants a tag created, and can’t do so yourself, I’ll more than likely be happy do so. (And, of course, if you can create tags, I’ll happily delete any with offensive names.)

Feel free to leave comments on this post with your opinion(s) of the new look. Comments on new posts are open for seven days.

Speaking of comments, I upgraded SpamKarma (the plugin for helping cut down on/eliminate comment spam) so if you have any trouble posting comments please let me know (jbala at jimbala dot net).

It’s Talk Like A Pirate Day again! Which also means I’ve been running WordPress for a bit more than a year… Oooo aahhhh.

Just finished upgrading WordPress to 1.5.2 from 1.5 and I have to say… I must love pain. I’m sure it’d be a breeze if I didn’t have much, or any, customization. But, as you may be able to tell, I have a Freakin’ Load(tm) of them. No customizations: upgrade in 5 minutes. With all of mine (all plugins; no personally coded hacks): no less than 3-4 hours.

And, as you may also notice, the hover text that says how long ago things were posted (under the Recent Activity sidebar) is a wee-bit broken. Once you get past the first 3 or 4 items it gets sane again. I don’t feel like debugging it. :P As it is, I’m amazed I managed to get as much working as I did.

The article itself is interesting but I love the line I’ve excerpted below. Nothing sexist intended; I just find it humorous that “educated” people continue to view women as any less capable than men in any characteristic, psychopathic or otherwise.

Quiz: Is Your Boss a Psychopath?
…research suggests psychologists have underestimated the psychopathic propensity of women.