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Visitors to my actual site (not just Google Reader) will notice a new addition in the upper right hand corner. What once was a "subscribe" button has now been replaced with a "Get this blog on your Amazon Kindle" button. "What's that?" you say. That's right - you can read ...
Sometimes I wonder why I blog, and particularly why I care to focus on current events. Isn't just reading the Wall Street Journal enough? I like to be informed, and I care about being educated enough on the issues that I can discuss them intelligently with others, and ...
The site went down for a few hours this afternoon for some reason.  I don't know what happened - something changed in the WP database that caused an error on the site.  It was showing the WP install page, like I needed to install WP again.  I needed to upgrade ...
Found a site that explains different ways to do custom post ordering in WordPress. aStickyPostOrderER works wonderfully.  It allows you to custom sort all of your posts, make some posts sticky, sort only certain categories - you can order it any way you like.  I *would* say "It works like a ...
Google XML Sitemap generator. This will automatically generate (and update) a sitemap for your blog, which will increase your pagerank with google.  The install is pretty easy (took ~3 mins). Download here
As you may have noticed, the blog looks a little different, and the address that visited to read this is new too. I have wanted to register gregisraelsen.com for a long time, so I decided that this summer was as good a time as any to get going on that project. ...