Melissa Pierce, tagged me in a rotating blog meme that states I need to outline 7 random/odd things about me. I’d just like to state for the record that it is incredibly difficult to come up with new and original random/odd facts about me when I’ve already listed out so many here. Having posted that, the following fulfills my obligation to the meme deities…

Apparently, I snore insanely and irritatingly loud.
Everything I know about how to relate to people (and, in a similar vein, acting) I learned from participating in ComedySportz …

A friend emailed me this morning asking how I go about blogging as a Mac user, and how I manage the buzz between Twitter and Facebook.
My workflow for blogging uses these tools, not necessarily all together:

Wordpress
MarsEdit
WordPress for iPhone
ScribeFire (for Firefox)

Wordpress is the web application running on PHP/MySQL that I use to actually host the blog. I self-host my sites, but there are a lot of people that use Wordpress.com to host their blogs. Regardless, it’s exactly the same engine. It’s a) free and open-source software; b) elegant and beautifully designed …

You may notice that you are prompted to login first before leaving a comment. You may also (and very rightly) figure out that you don’t have a login because you haven’t registered for the blog.
If you’d like to leave a comment today or at any other time, you’ll need to register for this blog. You’ll be approved immediately upon registering. This is an unfortunate but necessary change resulting from the DDOS attack from last week.

I apologize if you tried to read this blog today, as around 8am this morning, Flash For Learning was hit with a comment-spam attack — approximately 500 comments were force-entered in about the span of a minute or so, which somehow corrupted the database backup of the wp-options part of my WordPress install… this in turn made my site pretty much unusable.
It took me most of the day to figure out what happened and most of this evening to fix it. Normally, I would have left it to my …

I wanted to first put out a quick promo for a new blog I’m writing for in addition to the 75 other (actually four other) blogs and podcasts I currently contribute to. [Becoming Legit](http://www.becominglegit.com/) is a blog I started up with two peers in my company about what we’re doing to make social media (blogs, wikis, podcasting, collaborative tools, social networking) and make it legitimate (blessed) inside our organization. It’s an uphill battle as I’m sure you are feeling yourself (maybe?). It’s a young blog, but we’re …

It’s part of my New Year’s Resolutions…
1. Simplify
2. Focus
3. Have Fun
4. Act
Simplify
In the last year, we got out of a massive burden of debt with a lot of help from our parents. This year, I’m **trying to** adopt Suzy’s more frugal habits. So I’m taking a hard look at what I spend money on. I cut back quite a bit last year from previous years. This year, I need to do more, so there will be no Lollapalooza this year, no travel to Pittsburgh or elsewhere …

Welcome back from the holiday break, those of you stateside.
Finalists have been announced in the 2007 EduBlogs Awards. I’ll be trolling through their nominees and subscribe to some new feeds. Only slightly tongue-in-cheek, though… I didn’t know such awards existed, but now that I know, I’m pretty disappointed that in no time since this very blog began in 2005 has it even been nominated.
I used to think it’s because no one knew this blog existed, but as I’ve reported… thanks to the use of feedburner, about a hundred …

Just a quick aside on the power of [Feedburner](http://www.feedburner.com/): I was alerted by someone at Feedburner that my RSS feed wasn’t rendering the actual Feedburner layout and that my stats were probably off because of it. So, with a tiny bit of coaching, I got it right now (just click on the RSS icon in the sidebar to see for yourself). This morning I checked out my stats and they are through the freaking roof — On top of the 90+ people who actually visit the site, …

##Blogging##
Notice how I’ve been a little more active of late? A couple of things related to that:
* I’m using [MarsEdit](http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/) to actually post entries to the blog, which allows me to write when I’m at the computer, and not necessarily just when I’m at the computer and online.
* It also translates [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) syntax for writing in text editors, which is a habit I picked up very early in my blogging that saved me a ton of time by not having to do HTML markup, allowing me to write more …

I got an interesting email from Jason Haag of [Conform2SCORM](http://www.conform2scorm.com/) today, asking me about if I had recently switched blogging services because he noticed that the theme here on Flash for Learning has changed *again* as is my wont. I responded that no, in fact, I merely switched the **theme** which is the term that [Wordpress](http://www.wordpress.org) users use to describe the *skin* or template used in the blog. Since it’s easy as pie for me to switch themes, I do it whenever I fancy which I’m sure has …