Category Archives: Blogging

RSS Feed Fixed

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Les Jones

I noticed on vacation last week that the RSS feed wasn’t updating in Google Reader. It took a while to fix, but it’s working again.

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I’m Not Worthy

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Les Jones

I’ve been nominated for a LuckyGunner Gunnie Award in the Best Gun Blog – Politics category. I haven’t been blogging much about guns or politics lately, what with the economics, precious metals, and photography blogging. Just between me and you … Continue reading →

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Social Slam Knoxville, TN April 13

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Les Jones

I’ll be there. Anyone else going?

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The science is settled: Tennessee happiest state as measured by Tweet content

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Les Jones

Tennessee happiest state, Germany happiest country. Via Maetenloch at Ace of Spades, who notes “Now this may not mean that the people there are that much happier than the average, but rather that public negativity is frowned upon by their … Continue reading →

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Knoxville BBQ-N-Bullets Blog Get Together March 5th

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Les Jones

Linoge has the details.

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Epic Hilarity at SayUncle’s

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Les Jones

where a post critical of the TSA leads to this: As much as I hate the recent developments in airport “security”, I feel sorry for most TSA personel. They didn’t ask for any of this, they probably realize just how … Continue reading →

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How to Make Facebook Use Secure HTTPS Connections for All Pages

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Les Jones

Facebook has been rolling out this feature for the past few weeks. I checked the other day and noticed it was available in my account. 1. Click on Account (upper right corner). 2. Click Change next to Account Security. 3.Put … Continue reading →

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WordPress Smart Quote Insanity

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Les Jones

Since moving the blog I got quotation mark problems. Smart quotes are showing up as unknown characters. Example here: Efforts to fix that problem introduced other problems. Anyone know a bulletproof fix?

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Site, DNS moved

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Les Jones

If you’re reading this you’re seeing the new server. Everything looks OK except for a glitch with smart quotes. Next up I’ll play around with a new theme.

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YouTube’s iframe embedding option causes problems with WordPress

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Les Jones

Just a heads up. YouTube has switched their default embedding option from an object to an iframe. If you snag the embed code from the video’s popup panel you’ll still get the the Object code. It’s only when you’re on … Continue reading →

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Facebook now offers SSL encryption (https) for all pages if you change your security settings

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Les Jones

InfoSec Daily: Facebook announced that it is now offering users the ability to use encryption to protect their accounts from being compromised when they are interacting with the site, something security experts have been seeking for a while. The site … Continue reading →

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Twitterer with a cell phone camera gets results

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Les Jones

Confirmed: cop drives off after hitting parked car, under investigation.

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Movin’ movin’ movin’

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Les Jones

Some time Thursday this blog is moving to a new Web host and WordPress 3. I don’t expect any problems, but if you see anything quirky it’s probably because of the move.

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"FacebookÂ’s New 'Download Your Information' Feature is an Early Christmas Present for Lawyers"

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Les Jones

That’s what Computer Forensics Director Bill Dean is talking about over at Sword & Shield’s blog. What Facebook Information is Downloaded? Profile page with all of the userÂ’s information. The usersÂ’s “Wall” with all status updates. Replies/comments to all user … Continue reading →

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Have you updated servers to standard time?

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Les Jones

I updated the ones at work, but forgot about my blog. I could say that about a lot of things on the blog. I hope to find time to upgrade WordPress over the holidays.

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Word of the Day: Winerlinks

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Les Jones

From Rex Hammock: What are those hashtags at the end of paragraphs? Recently, I added the “WinerLinks plugin” to the WordPress software I use to publish RexBlog. (Plugins are snippets of code that add additional features or utility to WordPress.) … Continue reading →

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Will Facebook help your business?

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Les Jones

Is Facebook For Me is a 10 question quiz that helps you predict whether Facebook will benefit your business. I took the quiz for my company and got a 4.4: “What this means for you: Facebook will not be a … Continue reading →

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First He Took the Blogrolls, Then He Took D.C.

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Les Jones

Cool. Dude from my blogroll got elected to Congress yesterday.

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Wendi Thomas is an idiot,* bless her heart

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Les Jones

I love Web comments, but it’s true that newspaper comments are the low man on the totem pole. So I can sort of see where Memphis Commercial Appeal staffer Wendi Thomas is coming from in the I Hate Comments post … Continue reading →

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“Please put this in your status” is the new “forward this important email to everyone you know”

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Les Jones

“Please put this on your status if you know someone who suffers from stupidity. People need to understand that stupidity is real & should be taken seriously. You could be sitting next to a sufferer right now. There is still … Continue reading →

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