I am a: Quirky sysadmin. Geek. Gamer. Comic fangirl. My little space, my home on the interwebs. I blog about personal stuffs, work, various coding projects, and anything else I feel like.

There is a sweet little old lady who gets her hair done at the salon where I go to get mine done. We had a chance to chat a few weekends ago when I was in there and our conversation gravitated towards football. She leaned over to me and said, “Do you know how I […]

CommentLuv that is. :happy_tb: This handy-dandy plugin allows commenters the option of displaying a link to their latest blog post (and thereby gaining free linkylove!). I had been using this plugin previously, but ran into problems when I updated to the latest version. The author, Andy Bailey, kindly helped me get things running again via […]

Recently I’ve started paying more attention to Google’s Webmaster Tools. As much as I hate to admit it, they’ve been really useful in helping me track down outdated content and bad links, and really clean up search results for my site. One of the many things I had kept putting off for this site was […]

I am by no means an expert on site promotion, but I am asked this question pretty often: “I have a blog. Now what do I do?” The basics of blog promotion aren’t difficult concepts, but the process requires time, attention to detail, and focus. Most of the things I’ll cover here are pretty common […]

I’m in the process of updating my “WP plugins in use” on the Links page, but I wanted to make a note on the ones I’ve recently removed and highlight the new additions. Comments, suggestions, retorts, etc. are most welcome. Feel free to suggest in the comments form below! Commenter’s Link Love I love linky-love-type […]

Note: I had intended to post this Monday night, but work has been crazy-busy this week and Jim’s having a bit of a site snafu, so spare time has been pretty much nonexistent. LOL! We had a wonderful time at WordCamp Birmingham this past weekend. A big thanks to Andre Natta and the B’ham team […]