I spent the better part of an afternoon playing with a new social networking profile site called About.me. It’s as simple and elegant as an Apple product — high praise indeed. Read more →
Tag: Site News
A Fresh Coat of… Code
My credit card got hacked two weeks ago, and my web site gets hacked this week. Ugh. On the plus side, it inspired me to redesign the site so it doesn’t look quite so 2010. Read more →
Changes
The new year brings a new look to the House of Rapp, plus a revamped photo gallery and a renewed dedication to actually posting every now and then! Read more →
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Since a picture is worth a thousand words… and I haven’t been writing much lately, here are some photos. 🙂 Read more →
AdSense
From one house to another… a quick shout-out to my college roommate, Rich, on the relaunch of his sports commentary site, House of Sports Blab. I don’t know about the name, but the content is first rate. We spent the afternoon putting some fine touches on the WordPress template design, tweaking the style sheet, and so on. The main thing… Read more →
Aviation Blogs
I’ve added some new aviation-related blogs to my links page. It’s about time, too. I periodically search for sites like these, but find them few and far between on the internet. Thankfully, I found a way to leech off the research of others! I simply looked up the Bloglines lists of some people who subscribe to the RSS feed here… Read more →
Fighting Comment Spam
In the never ending battle against comment spam, I’ve implemented a change in the way comments are verified. First, the comment form now requires users to answer a simple question when posting a comment: “This site is called the House of _____”. A human user will hopefully be smart enough to enter the name Rapp. A spambot, on the other… Read more →
The Latest
Just added about 100 new photos to the gallery: L.A. Gold Cup aerobatic contest – photos courtesy of Katherine DeBaun. It was a great learning experience. For example, I learned never EVER to book a hotel room facing the highway. I also learned never to trust Gray’s judgement when it comes to bars. Oy. Northern California Aerobatic Challenge, better known… Read more →
WordPress / Gallery Integration Problem Solved
It’s been a few months since I switched from Movable Type to WordPress as a CMS solution. Overall, I’ve been happy with WordPress. However, there was one large bug I was never able to squash: it didn’t want to play well with Gallery. For some reason, I was never able to call WordPress functions from within the photo gallery pages.… Read more →
Updated Colophon
I updated the colophon page to read a little more like a personal narrative and a bit less like a legal brief. The only things it was missing were the double spacing and line numbers. Hopefully it’s now more entertaining, easier to read, lower in calories, and will cause the reader to buy the world a Coke and teach them… Read more →