By default, WordPress displays the name of your blog first in the HTML “title” element. That’s not good for search engines or TrackBacks because it obfuscates the title of your post or page, which is what people (and Google) are really interested. There are at least two existing plugins that address thisâ€â€SEO Title Tag and Optimal Titleâ€â€but it’s really not that hard to do yourself, provided you’re not afraid of a little PHP.
I’m planning some changes for my website for the upcoming release of WordPress 2.1. Basically, I want to start using WordPress as a content management system instead of a plain old blogging tool, and the new version can handle that a bit better than the current one, 2.0.5. But I also want to do some tricky things with where different types fo contrent are stored, and that means delving into WordPress’s internals, including its mod_rewrite rules. It took a lot of trial and error, but I finally managed to get it working.
I’ve been looking for a way to play BattleTech with Jeff for some time. For various reasons, I’ve limited my search to play-by-e-mail (PBEM) solutions. There aren’t really any specific for BattleTech, but there’s Cyberboard, which is a good “electronic cardboard” tool. We would still have to keep track of everything manually, plus check each other’s calculations by hand. And with the way the turn sequence works in BT, it’s just way more work than it’s worth. So I’ve decided to write one on my own. Wesley’s friend Andrew has generously offered to help on the server side. I’ve been doing a lot of background work lately, laying out a strategy and whatnot. I will have to learn some new languages (Javascript, PHP, and a little MySQL basically), but I already understand the programming concepts involved. I wrote a decent little n-tier app when I was still doing IT stuff, and this isn’t too different. It’s just that implementing all the game rules will be a little tricky. I’m looking forward to it, and most of all, to finally whooping Jeff’s ass good.
