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	<description>A medieval, agrarian, libertarian, green-living, alpha-geek&#039;s view on the world.</description>
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		<title>New Year  Blog Clean Up</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2012/01/02/new-year-blog-clean-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spent a good part of the early morning hours going through things here on Mephistos doing some cleaning up and it made me realize a few things. The kinds of things I was cleaning up was primarily links to other sites and almost all of the things I realized had to relate to just that. Clearly it is not something I had done in a while, as a few of the blogs I was linked to(aside from my own) had completely died, not having had a single post in all of 2011, others had completely changed the focus or were not even a blog any more, and yet others had resurfaced that I had removed some time before. A clean up of links and review of plugins and processes was clearly in order.]]></description>
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		<title>IntenseDebate vs. Disqus</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/11/22/intensedebate-vs-disqus/</link>
		<comments>http://mephistos.com/2011/11/22/intensedebate-vs-disqus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mephistos.com/?p=4511</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Realize that a few months ago I gave Disqus a trial run based on something I had read about it pulling in comments from other sources. However, that particular function seemed to work sporadically at best and so after a few days of testing I rolled it back. However, without much brain power having been spent, it is clear the comments increased during that short-lived attempt. So, now I come back asking if I were to consider a return to such a community/comment building system - which is the better option - Disqus or the very popular IntenseDebate?]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Auto Update to Work on WordPress</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/11/13/getting-auto-update-to-work-on-wordpress/</link>
		<comments>http://mephistos.com/2011/11/13/getting-auto-update-to-work-on-wordpress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mephistos.com/?p=4482</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The last few days I have been working on moving my blogs (and a few other sites) over to a different hosting platform, of sorts at least. Specifically, what I have been moving too is actually semi dedicated virtual server over at Linode. So, basically what you get over there is a blank virtual sever that you can put whatever flavor of operating system you desire and build everything from the ground up. Setting up a LAMP based server on an Ubuntu flavored server was my plan and the way I went forward...]]></description>
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		<title>BigDump: Staggered MySQL Importer</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/11/12/big-dump-mysql-importer/</link>
		<comments>http://mephistos.com/2011/11/12/big-dump-mysql-importer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mephistos.com/?p=4481</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All I can really say about this awesome little PHP tool is just how much I wish I had a known you sooner.  I recall the last time I moved WordPress sites around in mass from one server to another.  Fortunately at that time I was only really working with two sites that had really large databases and in the end at that time I just did some cutting up myself in smaller sections of SQL stuff in order to get them to run in both a time and memory space that the server would allow.  As I am preparing to that again with some of my stuff and even more importantly on a large-scale with some sites at work I needed to find something else. Enter stage left, BigDump.]]></description>
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		<title>New Theme</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/09/29/new-theme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started the process of finally converting over to a less customized theme by first just looking to see what was out there and what features I did want include. In the end I decided on a really simple theme that has very few custom options which needless to say has very little impact on the load time, especially in regards to database connections and calls for data. I did settle on pretty simple them called PressPlay and after my few slight modifications, that is indeed what you currently see running on the site today.]]></description>
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		<title>Customizing Themes</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/09/06/customizing-themes/</link>
		<comments>http://mephistos.com/2011/09/06/customizing-themes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 04:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mephistos.com/?p=4269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I admit it, that sometimes I am little slow. In this particular case, my slowness is causing some of my blogs using WordPress to be slow when loading up and it took me until the other day to realize it. What is the slowness and why? Well, frankly it is the customization that is available with certain themes these days. Granted, I have not taken the customizing as far you could run with it, but there are more than a few themes out now (of which, at least two of them I have used either now or in the not so far off past) that you could run on two sites and not have anything similar on them.
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		<title>Stats, Jetpack, &amp; Dislike</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/08/27/stats-jetpack-wordpress/</link>
		<comments>http://mephistos.com/2011/08/27/stats-jetpack-wordpress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mephistos.com/?p=4244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think I have touched on this one briefly once before, but that the heck are the folks at Automatic/WordPress thinking with this move? For those not acquainted with what I speak of, consider that the stats counter that has been provided and ran for standalone WordPress installations back through the WordPress.com site is now being migrated into the Jetpack plugin suite. I have some problems with this move and so should everyone else who has been using the WordPress blogging platform in the last several years.]]></description>
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		<title>Color Scheme</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/08/10/color-scheme/</link>
		<comments>http://mephistos.com/2011/08/10/color-scheme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mephistos.com/?p=4187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have been here to Mephistos before, you may have noticed a slight variation on the color scheme today. I am giving in to the dark, er, light, side of things and giving it a try. For those that do not recall, the typical scheme in the last year or two has been a dark green back ground with bright white text on top of it. At this point, I am giving it a try the inverse direction, which is, according to some weird law of internet acceptable visual presentation the more proper way to do things. Granted, I am just giving it a try at this point but I do welcome thoughts and opinions on the matter.]]></description>
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		<title>Devious Scam Aimed at Bloggers</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/08/04/devious-scam-aimed-at-bloggers/</link>
		<comments>http://mephistos.com/2011/08/04/devious-scam-aimed-at-bloggers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mephistos.com/?p=4178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I received an email indicating that an advertising agency named PAKBB that was purportedly a world-wide representative of several international brands had interesting in placing ads on this very blog site for a French based designer company named Lacoste. The email went on to say what kind of says banners they were interested in placing, that locations would be required on all pages, and that Lacoste specifically deals in apparel, perfumes, and designer footwear. My initial thought was this is pretty cool, a little bit more money to help pay the way for the blog, but...]]></description>
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		<title>DISQUS Comment System</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/07/30/disqus-comment-system/</link>
		<comments>http://mephistos.com/2011/07/30/disqus-comment-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mephistos.com/?p=4159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone out there using the DISQUS comment system on there WordPress based blog? I have been debating it for a little while and seeing it more often all the time on various blogs and even other sites. It has some nice features but I am wondering if there is catch that would leave me regretting the choice later. Also, in some limited testing I did a little while ago, it seemed that some of the integration was a bit lacking, wondering if that was just my limited testing or exposure of something I failed to set up. Thinking of plunging into it with my blogs but would like to hear experiences first.]]></description>
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