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Hit by a (consultative) Drive-by Shooting

April 20, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This morning I woke up covered in (figurative) blood. I had just been the target of James and Harry (of Men with Pens‘s fame) Drive-by Shooting Sundays. The rather colorful and fluffed-up setup is actually a lookover consultation of the blog from the eyes of trained online buisness men. While I knew that the Blog […]

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CommentLuv Plugin Activated

April 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’ve seen it on a few blogs and I must say I liked it a lot. I just installed the CommentLuv plugin that basically checks the URL of a commenter and tries to recover a link to the latest blog post of that commenter to add it at the end of a comment. I think […]

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House Cleaning

April 8, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m enjoying my time off by mostly lounging around and taking it easy. I am also tinkering with the blog a bit to make it more useful for readers. That’s why I moved the Recent Comments to the top of the primary sidebar. I’m also finding that my blogroll is stretching beyond what I’d like […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Blogging about Blogging, Tropes

Slowing down… Spring break… and Akismet finally activated.

March 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

My kids are starting the primary school equivalent of spring break (i.e no school, but no partying in Florida either) so I decided to slow down a bit on the blog this week. Expect a one or two-part post on last Friday’s game tonight and maybe tomorrow but not much else this week. I could […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Blogging about Blogging

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