Woe to comment spammers everywhere -- Dr Dave has released Spam Karma 2 final. I haven't been spammed since I installed SK2 Beta 4 earlier this month. And, this is despite completely unrestriciting comments. A great piece of work!

The Tech Gadgets Blog has a nice WordPress navigation bar that I've appropriated.

Check it out.

As you may or may not know, I moved WordPress up to ciulla.org's root directory. At least I don't have to worry about the homepage getting stale. This got me about half way -- I think I still need a more flexible content management system to do quick hits against the rest of the static content around here.

Anyway, I put the finishing touches upon the tableless version of my resume. After fighting with unordered lists and list elements for the better part of today, I threw in the towel and changed everything to paragraph tags. Despite this, I think it looks pretty sharp. It just bugs me that CSS doesn't do what I think it should do. Either that, or the way IE and FireFox renders stuff.

I've been investigating options to maintain ciulla.org via a content management system. Most of them have been overkill for maintaining the few static pages I have laying around.

Then it occured to me that I could use WordPress to maintain the static stuff.

So, I read the instructions on the WordPress Codex. Several times. And I changed my options, moved the files, then updated the permalink structure. Several times. I even deleted .htaccess. Several times.

All to no avail.

Dr Dave has published Spam Karma 2 for beta testing.

I've installed it, and will discuss its efficiency in the future.

edit: Wow, just looked at the options. I wish I would have found this plugin earlier.

I just upgraded WordPress to 1.5.1.3, and it went pretty smoothly.

Except it broke my categories (edit: looks like permalinks in general). When you click one, you get ye old 404.

I'll have to dig around to find out how to fix it.

update: How very odd. After deleting everything and starting from scratch, I simply restored my .htaccess file (which I did not delete), and everything's back to normal.

I'm about to show off the "post to blog" feature of WordPress to my spousal unit. She probably won't appreciate just how cool this is.