Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

I’m not sure when it happened, but in the last few days Facebook sharing, the little buttons under each blog post has broken, throwing a little red “error”. I’ve also noticed this behaviour in my new aggregators and I’ve ignored it and hoped it would go away after all many Facebook sharing buttons are still [...]

There is a lot of advice in the blogosphere on how to make your blog better or more popular. I’m not so sure there is a one to one relationship between quality and popularity which many people assume there is. Sometimes increased popularity is uncomfortable or problematic, whereas increased quality is almost entirely positive. One [...]

Back in 2005 when I created the WordPress theme for what became Muskblog, I didn’t spend much time on a custom 404 Error Page. Once again an upgrade to the newest version of WordPress busted either my theme or someone’s plugin or both. I got rid of the offending plugin and used some newer built [...]

I’ve continued to test and tweak my WordPress install as I have the time and opportunity. I still plan to alter my sidebar some more and make a custom 404 page, but I’m still trying to figure out if the Facebook for WordPress plugin is functioning properly and if it is worth running at all [...]

My blog is old. It has been online since 2005. Muschamp.ca has been online since 2002 and some of the HTML dates back to 1995 or close to it. I kept the old HTML online just for laughs. Before I went to Japan I adopted the still in-use pure CSS tab layout. I’ve tweaked it [...]