Archive for the 'Blogging' Category

Excuses

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Steve
at October 7, 2008 in Blogging, China and news. 6 Comments

I know, it’s been real quiet around here at stevewebel.com, there are a few reasons for this.  Besides being extremely busy, I just haven’t been able to get motivated to post anything here.  This is mostly due to the issue that my last post cryptically refers to… milk in China.  It’s depressing.
Toxic?

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Cabinet vowed a complete overhaul of the scandal-ridden dairy industry Monday, pledging to inspect every link from the farm to the dinner table to try to restore public trust in Chinese-made food products. 

In its strongest action yet, China’s highest level of government called the industry “chaotic” and acknowledged there was a lack of oversight.

Blog Action Day – October 15th

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Steve
at August 16, 2008 in Blogging, Holiday and thoughts. 2 Comments

Have you ever heard of a “Blog Action Day”?  I’ll admit, it’s new to me.

The idea is for a bunch of people who blog to write a blog post on the same topic on the same day, thus raising awareness.  The upcoming topic is “poverty”.  Here’s a video that talks about it;

 
Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.

 

The video says poverty is the issue of “most pressing importance.”  I disagree, but that’s the cool thing about this, I don’t have to agree to participate.  Many voices, many perspectives.

Do you have a blog?  Want to jump in with your two cents?  Go ahead, I’ll be posting too!

 

200th Post

Published by
Steve
at August 2, 2008 in Blogging and Internet. 3 Comments

Since I started this blog here at SteveWebel.com (after Erica took over my original blog!)  I’ve posted 200 posts…

 

Whew!

WordPress Upgrade

Published by
Steve
at July 16, 2008 in Apple and Blogging. 4 Comments

Some of the readers of my blog who are into this sort of thing know that I use the blogging software known as WordPress to publish SteveWebel.com .  Well, I upgraded to version 2.6 today using WordPress Automatic Upgrade which automatically upgrades your wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org by just clicking on a link.  Easy, right?

Everything seemed to go smoothly, but then I couldn’t log back in to my admin page (where I write new posts and manage all the settings of the blog.)  I have to admit, with all the issues Erica is having with her blog as a result of Apple‘s problems migrating from .Mac to “MobileMe”, I became very nervous that we were both gonna be hurtin in the blogging arena.

However, after a few minutes of trouble shooting and trying a few things, I thought about resetting my browser (I’m using Apple’s Safari browser.)  I had read that one of the ‘upgrades’ in v2.6 was a new way of handling “cookies”, by resetting Safari, I would wipe out the old cookies and get a fresh start, so to speak.

Well, it worked!  Whew!  Crisis averted.

 

Okay, if you made it this far in this post, congratulations, you are probably the only one!

WordPress Plugins I Like

Published by
Steve
at April 30, 2008 in Blogging. 3 Comments

One of the things I like about WordPress (the blogging software used to create this blog) is the ability to customize your blog according to your needs and interests using “plugins”. Here is my list of plugins that I currently think are pretty cool.

  • WP-Polls – Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can easily include a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page. WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted.
  • WP-UserOnline – Enables you to display how many users are online on your WordPress blog with detailed statistics of where they are and who there are(Members/Guests/Search Bots).
  • Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.
  • FeedBurner FeedSmith – this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
  • WordPress.com Stats – Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.
  • WordPress Automatic Upgrade - allows you to automatically upgrade your wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.

The central location to find new plugins is found at the WordPress plugin directory.

What are some of your favorite WP plug-ins?

Where’s Webel…

Published by
Steve
at November 27, 2007 in Blogging and funny. 0 Comments

The software I use to publish my blog (WordPress) keeps track of all kinds of stats for me.  Sometimes complete strangers stumble upon my blog and one of the interesting things that my WordPress Stats tell me is what people typed into a search engine (ie. Google)  to find my blog.

Here are some examples from this past week;

rednecks
florida football
why tebow should not win heisman
Tebow divide by zero
tebowisms
huge beards
redneck beer
grizzly adams
survivor china logo
batman film in Hong Kong
heisman vote
tim tebow “sunday school”
heisman vote online
mythbusters spiciest
worlds best beard competition
2008 heisman voting
WIERD BEARDS
steve spurrier faith church
Yueyang Mouse Invasion ’07
grizzly adams
Survivor China logo
webel blog
steven webel

(These are not quite as colorful as some of the ones my cousin Lance Webel comes up with, but then again, he has been blogging much longer than I.)