Author: Mike McBride

  • SpamCop

    I was taking a look at my email using Mailwasher last night, and I noticed that the blacklist from SpamCop marked just about every email out there as spam. Even the mails from mailing lists that I belong to! Nothing like having to go through and unmark every email from the bloggerpro list, among others….

  • Template

    Blogger has completely fudged my template, I’m working on it, excuse the mess in the mean time. Fixed it. Lesson learned, Mozilla appears to work with Blogger, but editing the template in Mozilla causes all sort of problems with the HTML tags and scripts running on the page. Edit the template in IE from now…

  • Baby boom

    After writing about Erik and his wife expecting twins I got to thinking about something. Brad’s wife just had a baby, as did Shelby, Natalie is due any day now, my sister-in-law and another good friend are both due next week, Dane and his wife are expecting next month, and Meryl is also expecting next…

  • Blog roundup

    Some things I noticed this morning in my blog reading: I’m not the only one having trouble with hotels. Jenny is dealing with a hotel that promised her high speed internet access, but doesn’t really have it. How do you get that wrong? You either have it or you don’t. On the good news front,…

  • Comments spam

    I guess the new addition of the TableEditor turned out to be a double-edged sword last night. Yes, someone did leave a comment that was nothing more than “come visit my blog” with a link, and yes I did delete it. Unfortunately, I also left a comment by Anita that referred to said spam comment,…

  • More grrr

    Gee and here I thought today was going to be better, only to have my landlord call and inform me that my rent is late, even though he cashed the check over a week ago! Then to top that off, when I went to my online banking to get the exact date he cashed it,…