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I just noticed that Windypundit is up to Google PageRank 6! Again. Last time I hit PR 6, about a year and a half ago, it didn't last very long. This time, I'm going to try to make it stick. I suppose the best way to do that is to publish high-quality, timely, and original content that attracts attention and starts discussions in the blogosphere. In fact, I'd like to think … [Read more...] about Hey Everybody! Link To Me!

I've been exploring the new version of the Movable Type blogging engine, and I've decided to try turning on some of the caching options. For various reasons, I run Windypundit in dynamic publishing mode, which means that every time someone refreshes the page, the back end rebuilds the entire page from scratch. That's a little slow, but the new Movable Type allows me to specify … [Read more...] about Tweaking the Site

I just upgraded the Movable Type blogging software that powers Windpundit from version 4.01 to version 4.21. I did it for all the usual reasons---better, faster, stronger... No, maybe not stronger. Movable Type is supposed to be easy to upgrade. Just download the gzipped archive of the latest version and dump it right on top of the existing MT installation. Then I just login to … [Read more...] about How Joel Rosenberg Cost Me $99

Windypundit is published using the Movable Type blogging engine from Six Apart, and they've just released an interesting sounding update. I think I'll switch to it in the next week or two. I may have to rebuild the templates that create the look and feel of this site, but even if I don't, I'm getting a little tired of the current look of the blog and I'd like to change it. … [Read more...] about Change I Can Believe In

Some of you who've tried to leave comments have probably noticed that it doesn't work very well. The Captcha codes---those annoying strange characters you have to type---just aren't working right. This is a bizarre and frustrating bit of misbehavior out of the Movable Type blogging engine. So much of it normally works so well.I've disabled Captcha codes for now, and I'm trying … [Read more...] about Trying to Work Around The Captcha Problem