Archive for May, 2008

 

thejerk on May 5th, 2008Top 10 List: Worst Subjects On Which To Base Your Blog

10. Beta vs. VHS
9. Yak Recipes
8. Yeast Infections
7. How to Make a Better Bomb
6. Aardvarks
5. Concrete
4. Gary Coleman
3. Erectile Dysfunction
2. Mesothelioma

thejerk on May 5th, 2008Manmar: 4,000 Dead (humans) vs. Kentucky Derby: 1 Dead (horse)

I think we’ve got some weird sense of priorities in our western media.  I’m not saying I’m perfect, but it’s things like this that burn me up.  Over the weekend at the Kentucky Derby, a horse name Eight Belles was injured and needed to be euthanized.  Also over the weekend, a cyclone hit Myanmar (also known [...]

thejerk on May 4th, 2008How to Create a Blog in Wordpress (part 1)

Okay, this isn’t necessarily a “how-to,” per se, but I’m just updating my progress on this fairly straight-forward experience.
After reading some illustrious point-counterpoints about Wordpress vs. Blogger (ranging from “Wordpress sucks” to “Blogger sucks”), I decided to keep updating my original Blogger blogs (which have a fairly limited amount of blogger templates but great out-of-the-box [...]