By default, Wordpress generates titles using the wp_title() tags. The titles for each post usually end up looking like “BLOG NAME >> POST NAME”. By changing it to “POST NAME at BLOG NAME” you could theoretically boost your search engine rankings for that post because now, rather than the unimportant blog title (at least less important than the post title) being first, the post title is now first.

1) First, open up the header.php file for your theme (if it’s a custom theme, it’s the file with the title tags at the top).

2) Find:

<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> &raquo; Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>

(this is how it appears in the default template; it is just the line with the <title></title> tags)

3) Replace that line with:

<title><?php wp_title(''); ?><?php if ( is_home() ) { } else { ?> at <?php } ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>

That’s the way RV2 [blog] is currently formatted! Note that this does not affect the index page title in anyway, just the post page titles.

Anyone else notice the Apple ads during Prison Break and 24? I thought the one airing during Prison Break was pretty funny and the one airing during 24 wasn’t too bad either.

It seems that Verizon (as of May 1st, 2006) is upgrading their FiOS fiber optic internet speeds for New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. The changed plans are 10/2 for $34.95, 20/5 for $44.95, and 30/5 for $179.95.

Currently, they’ve been installing the fiber optic cables for FiOS in my neighborhood (lots of digging for laying down the fiber underground and working on the poles at the end of the neighborhood). Not sure when it’ll be finished, but hopefully at the end of the year I’ll be able to enjoy some much needed new speeds. Comcast here (MD) is currently only providing 6/768k; for the same price going with FiOS I would be getting 15/2 (unless the change the plans for Maryland to 20/5)!

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Check it out. As of now, it’s only four shows (Desperate Housewives, Lost, Alias, and Commander in Chief- all of which are pretty bad), but allowing viewers to watch whenever they want is definitely a step in the right direction. Quality is not the greatest and advertisements are still stuck in, so, personally, even if they had better shows, I’d still be getting them off of Bittorrent (much better quality and no advertisements).

It’s for the USA only and will be going from now until June 30th, 2006.

Delta/Song airlines is running a special promotion where they are giving a $25 Target or a $25 Starbucks giftcard or 2,500 bonus miles for new miles members.

1) Sign up for a Song account
2) Register your Song account with Delta (make sure you choose which gift you want)

They say it’ll arrive in 6-8 weeks. Note that this is for new members only.

I’ve been too long, I’m glad to be back
Yes I’m let loose from the noose,
That’s kept me hangin’ about
I been lookin’ at the sky ’cause it’s gettin’ me high,
Forget the hearse, ’cause I’ll never die
I got nine lives, cat’s eyes
Each and every one of them and running wild
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Gosh, I haven’t blogged in forever. It’s been a long while since I last updated this site (7 months ago, maybe?), so it’s strange seeing that people are still visiting here (according to Awstats, at least). But I’ve lately I’ve have more free time, so I decided why not, I should bring the ‘ole blog back!

I’m still in the progress in restoring it to it’s once old glory, but it’s taking much longer than I had expected. I never realized how much stuff I really had on here. The old blog had a ton of tweaks to Wordpress, but for some reason I can’t find a recent enough backup to get everything exactly the same, so I’ll have to continue redoing it all. So far the theme of the blog has come along nicely (should be nearly the same) and I am currently working on the forums and the sub-pages. Don’t have an ETA on anything yet, but not to worry, I will still be posting nonetheless! Should be basically the same content as before (hacking, computers, news, etc.), so no worries there.

If you haven’t notice, I decided to, rather than continue with where I left off content-wise, start a completely new database. The archives of the old blog can be found at http://rv2.org/blog. It is the most recent backup of the old database I had (May 17th, 2005). I created it to make it easier for the search engines searches to this site that linked using the old website structure (http://rv2.org/blog/ vs. http://rv2.org/). Search engine finds to this site will no longer direct to dead links if they were looking for something located on the blog (unless the posts were after May 17th, 2005). If you are looking for something from a while ago, make sure to check it out (you can find a clickable link on the side if you are too lazy to copy and paste! :P)!

That’s about it! It’s always good to be back!