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I am convinced that the reason why so many bloggers are so gung-ho about Dreamhost Web Hosting is because they have a fairly lucrative referral deal going. Because, in reality, their control panel is an eyesore, and worse, is often confusing. Most of all their concept of users is so varied and confusing, I’m still not sure what my passwords are for the various different users they make you create for each thing (admin, mail, ftp…).

All that said, everyone should use Dreamhost, because I’ll make a bunch of money if you do.

This is just a test post using MarsEdit, blog posting software from Ranchero. Since no one reads this anyway, no worries.

Wow, this is great. I may be $24.95 poorer soon.

Update: Reloaded all the Comment templates, and it all seems to work more sensibly. Did I miss this part of the upgrade instructions or are they not there for me to miss?

I fancy myself a pretty intelligent and web-savvy guy, but I must admit that I need some help figuring out comment registration and MT 3.

FYI: Right now, I have unregistered comment moderation enabled, so as to not make commenting impossible, but still enabling me to deal with comment spam before it infects my site.

Battling atrophied creative muscles to put into pixels a new design idea for this site. Conspicuously drawn to the grace of simplicity and the captivating nature of top-notch content.

Couldn’t figure out how to get comment registration working since I upgraded from Moveable Type 2.64 to the fancynew 3.0 release (still can’t, by the way). So, figuring TypePad would be using the latest version of the MT software (which is inaccurate, as they use entirely separate systems, I think), I went over there to check out some blogs that had comment registration enabled.

My mouse wound up over a link to “Buttermilk and Molasses,” so I clicked over to the site. As coincidence would have it, the author was from Richmond, Virginia, my hometown.

That’s incredible.

The likelihood of a person happening upon a blog written by someone from their hometown has to be remarkably small. In fact, if there are an estimated 10 billion web sites on the internet, it’s likely you would be underestimating the odds with the phrase “one in a million.”

Hi, Richmond. Fancy meetin’ you here.

What’s with all the pirate-related blather going on around the blog world? Honestly, I just posted that Talk Like a Pirate Day link, because I randomly found it somewhere one day. I had no pre-existing obsession, or even thoughts in the slightest, on pirates.

I saw Tony’s mention of pirates awhile ago, but now Webcrumbs points me to yet another blog on pirate-speak. I really can’t comprehend how this is happening.

I’m glad this third site is not local to the DC Metro area. I’d think it was something in the air, and I would truly be frightened.

I just have one thing to say about all of this: Yes, that is a hornpipe in my pocket and I am happy to see you.

I’ve given up on redesigning (really, designing in the first place) this site myself. I’ve posted a Matchmaker project on k10k.net. Gotten one response, which I’m really excited about. I’m setting my hopes high for what this guy can do, but really anything is better than what I’ve got.

Here’s the ad:

Blogs are old and so are the default templates that come with MoveableType. I need to break out of “default” mode and get something fresher out to the world. Simple, clean, straightforward. Nothing fancy. Just a template design or two - one for blog, one for photo gallery. I can’t pay (much), but I can help you with your web projects.