Triangle Running Group

EDIT – FIXED! Ok, weather.com hosed us on our weather plugin on the side. That was causing the website to crap out this morning. Haven’t been able to find a decent replacement. Will get that functionality back up and running when I can. While looking for a weather plugin, I found a plugin that automagically [...]

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As you know, we have been running Google advertising on the website to generate some revenue to help pay for the hosting. The traffic to the website has been increasing steadily over the last year, and now the revenue from the Google advertising is becoming substantial. I am hesitant to state exactly what the figure [...]

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Another Nerding Out Night. Here’s what I did: Got the db back from the brink of destruction Wrapped up the RSS feeds so there would be some other fun stuff in the sidebar Backup up our entire current blog to – TriCary.com.  Just a placeholder in case disaster strikes again. Polls! Getting the db back [...]

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Our web site turns 1 today.  Thanks to everyone who has run with us or even just shared posts on the web site.  It has been a blast for me, and I look at the past year as a turning point – meeting and making a lot of new friends and also turning the corner [...]

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So I tidied up a bit – polished a few things here and there, did some decorating. Love it? Hate it? I’m more concerned if you hate it. I put Google search in the top right corner for functionality because I *know* you all keep this page open all day long on the computer. Yep [...]

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For those of you who are thinking – “This new layout SUCKS!” I am not particularly pleased with it either. Bear with me, while I find something that looks a lot snazzier and will support the new version of the blog software. The default blog theme is so dull though I had to install something. [...]

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And we almost survived the upgrade unscathed. There is a little bug with the links section, which I will figure out when I can. In the meantime, everything is back up and running. I bet you didn’t even know we were down EDIT – OK We are going Old-School on the ‘theme’ until I find [...]

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You guys know you all can actually CREATE POSTS, not just comment right? How do you know I am talking to the people who can post? Cause you guys are the only ones who read it! I’d love to see everyone who sees something interesting to share, or is embarking on a spontaneous workout, to [...]

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Our spam filter for the blog (yes even blogs need spam filters) has now caught over 1,100 spam comments. Add up all of the blog posts, and the corresponding comments, and we are probably around 150 comments. So we roughly get 10 times as much spam for the ham. The point of this post is [...]

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Whew. If anyone caught it – the site was down for a bit. There was a bit of shenanigans going on with the WordPress (blog server software) code – this site wasn’t affected, as I have been lazy and hadn’t updated to the just-prior version. So we made the jump from 2.0.6 all the way [...]

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