A Knight in Dragonland

I’m now Blogging Forgottonia. Check it out!

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Apparently my old theme was causin’ problems. Thus the new look.

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… but I really like this theme, so we’ll just go with it.
BTW, playing with my thingy was precipitated by Billy playing with BlogPeoria’s thingies. Blame the Blogfather.

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WidgetBucks go bye-bye now. I’ll have to give up the $2.35 I’ve made over the past 6 months, but I’m will to make that sacrifice to de-clutter my blog.

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After a nearly 4 month hiatus, Edgar Sandoval is back to blogging over at Market 117.  Welcome back!

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Am I actually the one scooping this? WHOI anchor Jen Christensen now has her own blog … News Anchor Mom.
She’s probably really regretting it now.  She has a post about the unfounded and extremely dangerous MYTH that autism is linked to vaccination. I, of course, went on a rant.

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It’s my one year blogiversary, and it’s certainly been an interesting year. A brief recap:
I began my blog anonymously, but came out in the open half way through my first year.
My first controversial stand involved rhetorically taking on Jim Mangan and Mike Noyes in the school district consolidation debate.
My commentary on the local Pekin [...]

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Well, new for me at least. Those familiar with the Peoria area blogosphere will recognize it as Peoria Illinoisan’s old theme.
Apparently PI switched because some readers were having trouble posting their comments. If anyone has a problem posting, please email me at knightindragonland@yahoo.com.
Addendum: I didn’t use widgets with my old theme. Widgets [...]

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I know, I know.  I’ve been a big slacker lately.  Bad blogger!
I guess I’ll blame the beautiful weather we’ve been having lately.  I’ve been outside a lot in the last week.
My backyard would be the perfect hangout if it weren’t for all the infernal insects … mostly gnats and mosquitoes.  I collected 25 mosquito bites [...]

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My Akismet filter has now captured over 10,000 spam posts.  My spam count has doubled since March 29.

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The spam just keeps on rolling in, more than doubling in about 6 weeks time. I’m now up to 5000 spam posts caught in my Akismet filter.

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That didn’t take long – a little over a month to double my spam total.  I’ve now caught 2000 spam posts with Akismet.

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Is blogization a word?  Well, it is now.
The Times weekend edition has a staff editorial about opening up their web edition for comments.  This feature has been in place for a month or two now, but I guess they wanted to draw attention to it in the print edition.  I found the following comment interesting:
Many [...]

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I just surpassed one thousand spam posts caught in my Akismet filter.  I would have met that illustrious mark sooner, but I was manually deleting them for a while before I figured out the plug-in.
Thanks to Akismet for keeping me cootie-free!

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