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Welcome Back to a Secret Blog

Today is the beginning of a new era of privacy on this blog. Well, technically speaking it's really the re-beginning of an era... let me explain...

You see, I used to be able to create posts that were private and only viewable by logged in users. A year ago WordPress released a new version, and while it was sparkly and wonderful it also broke my ability to do this (by breaking Fil's excellent private-post plugin "Post Levels"). So instead of exposing all of my private posts to the world I squirreled them away, hoping that someday I would be able to bring them back.

Ladies and Gentlemen: That day is today. Thanks to Peter Holiday's outstanding plugin WP Sentry (which is based on Fil's plugin), I am now able to control who can see certain posts.

Some things to know...

1. You must have an account on this blog to see private posts. Log in here or create one.
2. The most recent private post that currently exists is from February 28th, 2008. I will likely post more now that people can actually see them.
3. To see ALL of my old private posts (there are 44 of them) click here.
4. If you are logged in and still don't see any private posts please let me know - I probably didn't recognize the username or e-mail address you registered with.

Website Error in IE

It has come to my attention that several readers are experiencing an error when visiting this site. The error will only occur when you are using Internet Explorer, and is most likely due to JavaScript in one of my plugins attempting to write to the DOM before it has finished rendering.

If you are tired of seeing this error, or do not wish to wait for me to fix it, then please download and install a REAL browser like Firefox, Opera, or Chrome. From a web developer's perspective, and in my professional opinion, Internet Explorer sucks donkey balls. It's a nightmare to support and a pain to debug. It doesn't conform to most standards and has abysmal JavaScript debugging tools.

So do yourself a favor and take 5 minutes to install a new browser. Your entire web experience will improve (especially if you're using IE6 - Firefox is much faster and more secure).