I once heard a man declare that all contemporary music is founded in pessimism. Much as I wanted to disagree with him, I couldn’t find the evidence. (On reflection, however, I didn’t try very hard. I was in a pretty dark mood at the time.) But lately, I’ve been kind of overwhelmed by art that […]
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Song review no. 1: Lady Samantha
So I’m starting a new series here, where I’ll be reviewing a new song each week; I’m going to be focusing on older songs, preferably deep cuts. I’d love to introduce people to some weird stuff, but I’m also going to be listening to some things that probably should have stayed lost. My inaugural post […]
Moderating Comments in WordPress Websites
So you’ve started a WordPress website. But now you keep getting emails asking you to moderate comments on your pages; and when you look at the comments, some of them are gibberish strings of characters, and some of them are just generic lines like “I’ve really been looking for this type of content, but haven’t […]
The King of Shellfish
Some time ago I began adding short snippets of text whenever I emailed a document to myself; I think that I was worried that an email with an attachment and no body text would be rejected, so I needed some quick filler text. At that time I was unfamiliar with the “lorem ipsum” which is […]
Creating a Subdirectory for Your Blog in WordPress
Set up a Blog homepage. Then, in Settings > Reading, set that as the default Posts Page.