Casey's Critical Thinking» Website updates

Casey’s Critical Thinking has moved!

casey — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:33:49 +0000

Well, I’m now at a new domain. It’s been a long time coming. For the longest time I have wanted to register cct.com, cct.net, cct.info or something like that, but those domains are reserved for at least the next decade or so. I thought about caseyscriticalthinking.com, but that’s too long. So then it occurred to me, why not go with a Japanese word? It just so happens that “hoshuha.com” was available. Hoshuha () means “conservative” in Japanese (pronounced “hoe shoo hah”).

Anyway, if you’re one of the 4 people that links here (you know who you are), please update your links accordingly.

My apologies for the problem with comments

casey — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:20:15 +0000

I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress the other day, and apparently the anti-spam plugin I had installed was not compatible. It was preventing people from posting comments, but I didn’t notice it (my blog’s not that popular, so a few days without comments is not abnormal… ). Many thanks to micpro at In the Life of a Child for letting me know. For now I’ve disabled the plugin, so comments are open again.

Site was down for a while

casey — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:42:56 +0000

My site was down for a while yesterday. My apologies if you experienced difficulties connecting. There was apparently some kind of DDOS attack at the datacenter. All appears to be well now.

Gravatars

casey — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:33:24 +0000

I’ve enabled the Gravatars2 plugin for comments. Now if you’re registered on gravatar.com your avatar will show beside your comment.

I’ve joined the “dofollow” movement

casey — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:48:52 +0000

Today I removed the “nofollow” attribute from links in comments using the LinkLove plugin. So now if you are a regular commenter (5 or more comments) on my blog you’ll get a backlink (provided you enter one in the URL field). Note that I still moderate all comments due to all the spam I get , so please keep your comments on topic. Comments like “Nice post” are indistinguishable from spam, so I won’t approve them…unless I know who you are, of course.

If you’ve left 5 or more comments in the past, don’t worry–the link is already being followed. Hopefully this will encourage participation and be some sort of reward for helping me improve my blog.

Registration no longer required for comments

casey — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:50:32 +0000

As per a suggestion received on Blog Catalog, I’m going to try turning off the requirement for registration for a while. If there are a lot of spam comments I’ll have to turn it back on.

Comments now open

casey — Sun, 27 May 2007 09:26:08 +0000

The comment feature is now turned on, so please feel free to register and leave comments. I look forward to hearing from you!

Search now works

casey — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:52:10 +0000

I got the search function up and running. I’m using a service provided by Webside Story. It used to be known as Atomz. Anyway, it’s pretty feature-packed, and it does it a lot better than I could do on my own.

New Design

casey — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:51:09 +0000

How do you like the new look? I had used the same design for nearly 8 years. I finally decided to get the site professionally redesigned, so I enlisted the help of guys at Jenox. Their prices are very reasonable, and they were a pleasure to work with. Unfortunately I had a problem arise with Japanese encoding. I eventually figured it out myself, but they didn’t answer my e-mails for 3 months. I still haven’t been able to get in touch with them since that time. But at least it’s all working now.