Michel’s automated guestbook: Spammers’ expressions compiled in an automatic (?) “guestbook” page. Hilarious!

Yahoo! Contextual Ads for Blogs and Small Publishers: Is this Yahoo! trying to sneak up on Google? However, if that is Yahoo, they need some serious work on their “contextual” apps.

You CAN use your old WordPress 1.2 index with WordPress 1.5. Not that it is recommended, nor will the wonderful theme features of WordPress 1.5 work, but it can be done with relatively little effort. (PS: if you have not noticed, this blog has been upgraded, but is using the old template) Backup your index.php and your wp-layout.css (and all other files and the database, in my opinion) Perform a normal upgrade of your blog Open your old index.php and add the following line to the top of your file, right after the <?php Add the line: define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, false); Copy your old index.php and layout.css to your blog Caveats: Things might break. Hacks will need to be reapplied and plugins might need reworking, just like any other upgrade Your theme might have deprecated functions, variables in it which will need to be weeded out. You WILL NOT be able to […]

WordPress 1.5 Themes Competition This is always a great idea and I was wondering when Alex and others were going to start it again. There is a Competition Blog. The theme competition will run for four weeks, with all entries being due on March 25th. See the complete list of rules and prizes. I cannot contribute much, but I would like to add $20 to the prize pot, to be distributed in any way to the winners as determined by Alex. I will contact Alex with the payment details. This was a LOT of fun the last time with over 110 styles created for this purpose.

Dilip V has created a theme for WordPress 1.5 called Aesthetic. It is a 3 column bluish (purpleish?) theme that can be previewed at http://www.dilpu.net/ and can be downloaded from http://www.dilpu.net/download/aesthetic.tar.gz

WP 1.5 theme: Red & Blue Make White: Minimalist WordPress 1.5 theme with the Red White and Blue motif.

WP 1.5 themes from Entropy: A list of themes from Gary of Entropy including Very Simple 1.5, Brushed Simple 1.5, Bright 1.5, Pinstripes 1.5 and the latest Grubby Slipcovers 1.5. I personally LOVE the Brushed Simple theme because it looks something like the mac.com series of websites. Nicely done themes.

2005 Business Blogging Awards: A new area of blogging that is becoming ever popular and evermore lucrative. Since I am trying to sell a property right now and am working with a realtor, I could not help but notice the realtor that uses a blog as his marketing tool. Sure worked out well for him! Investment Bankling Blogs are also very interesting to read, if you are into that sort of thing.