This is Scott D. Nolan’s personal web log. It is Scott’s second web log, replacing (and importing) all the posts and comments from an earlier privately hosted blogger maintained blog.
The opinions here are Scott’s alone and do not reflect those of his employer, spouse, non-profit organizations, or pet fish. None of them take Scott seriously, and neither should you.
Scott uses free wordpress.org software on affordable dreamhost.com web hosting. In fact, this wordpress site was installed with dreamhost’s one click installer. Scott later set up a wordpress.com account to get a key so he could enable the Akismet anti-spam filter, because spam is a waste of time. Sadly, though Akismet does a great job eliminating most spam (hundreds per day); quite a bit still gets through (6-12 spams per day). Scott is still shopping around for something to nab the last few spams this blog gets each day.
The built in WordPress Database Backup plugin is also enabled.
WordPress 2.6.1 (one click install from DreamHost panel)
- WordPress Plugins:
Akismet 2.1.6 (included with WordPress 2.2 and newer, though you may need to upgrade Akismet)
WordPress Database Backup 1.7 (included with WordPress 2.0.3)
Gravatars 2.6 (for pictures of commentors)
Gallery 2.2.4 (one click install from DreamHost panel)
MySQL 4.1.15 (one click install from DreamHost panel)
PHP Version 5.1.2 (automaticly available on DreamHost websites)
