PING! PONG!

it's not bad enough that the ping mechanism on archGFX has been dead since 1.5.3. now, since adding domain mapping to this blog, they're dead here too. this is a test post to see if i can ping mark.

UPDATE: it seems it's only wordpress.com blogs i ...

turning off akismet

my attempts at delurking aren't going very well.  nonetheless, raven's anti-spam has brought spam to a dead stop.  after commenting myself (man i'm uncool), i found this:  akismet was blocking the good comments.  not that they were hard to find in the list, since there were no spam ...

new themes

courtesy of the announcement of the custom image header API (which is awesome), we can now see new themes in the pipeline for wordpress.com:

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Custom CSS on wordpress.com

UPDATE: it seems that this trick doesn't actually work all that well.  however, the pinklillies style has been painstakingly converted to a sandbox skin.  The instructions below will help you use skins that were not intended for wordpress.com, though.
Customizing CSS is a ...

HTML testing

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