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New Blog on my Blogroll

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:08:53 +0000

I’d like to point out a new blog on my blog roll: Pondering Christ. It’s a blog that my good friend Matt runs. He has a very interesting and amazing testimony of God’s grace in coming out of the Jehovah’s Witness organization into evangelical Christianity and eventually arriving at Reformed Baptist convictions. He also is starting a You Tube channel. So, you might want to check that out once he starts posting videos to it!

Finally, Some Spam Relief

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:17:45 +0000

I must ask for your forgiveness, readers, for the excess of spam that has been gathering into the comments on my blog. If you’ve done more than just quickly glance over my blog, you’ve probably noticed many posts with hundreds of comments, and anyone who knows my blogging knows it normally doesn’t provoke hundreds of comments. As compelling as I am, I’m not that compelling.

It’s been getting progressively worse, and finally I’ve enabled some more advanced filters in hopes that it makes a significant improvement. It appears to be working very well so far. I’m looking forward to a more pain-free WordPress existence from now on. Of course, the filters only eliminate spam from now on, but I will be going through my blog archives and eventually will eliminate all previous spam.

More Productive or More Anxious?

admin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:25:03 +0000

Salon.com had a book review with the following subtitle, which I feel is pretty interesting and thought-provoking:

We e-mail, we text, we Facebook, we blog. Are we more productive today or just more anxious?

WordPress vs Blogger

admin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:39:11 +0000

Over at my old blog, I used Blogger for quite some time. Now, for this blog, I’m using WordPress. Here are some initial advantages I see in this switch. I haven’t used WordPress for too long, so this is still exploratory.

The ability to easily host the blog on my own server
The ability to install a plugin that adds statistic tracking right into the blog management interface
A cleaner way of templating, IMHO
A more functional blog post editing interface — especially for adding photos and formatting
Better tracking of incoming links and outgoing, ie. in the management interface
Functionality to easily add pages and links

I don’t know, perhaps as I use WordPress more this list may expand or contract. But I think this is a good starting point, and shows why I’m really enjoying using WordPress.

Once A Blogger, Always A Blogger

admin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:39:06 +0000

OK, so my retirement from blogging didn’t even last 2 months. I retired Codex Markianus with a final post on November 15, 2008. And now in January 10th, 2009 I’m already starting up a new blog!

What can I say? I think I need some sort of outlet. Welcome to the new and shiny All Things Expounded. I hope you enjoy it!