CoffeeBear.net

About

Posted by Mark

Since you’re on this page, I have to assume you are inter­ested in learn­ing more about the peo­ple behind this site. Read on below for details as to the Who/What/Where/Why/How of CoffeeBear.net. Please feel free to con­tact me if there’s some­thing not answered on this page that you are inter­ested in.

Who?

The main author behind this site is me, <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>. I’m just this guy who spends far too much time work­ing on or around com­put­ers, both in hard­ware & soft­ware.

Occa­sion­ally, you will also see posts by my lovely wife, Michelle (aka Ariesna).

What?

First off, let me explain my domain name. I drink cof­fee and more than just a lit­tle bit. Per­haps not quite so much as some peo­ple think I do, but still… So I knew that I wanted to include cof­fee in the name. The next step was to fig­ure out what to tack onto cof­fee to come up with a unique domain name. As was I run­ning SuSE Linux on all my home com­put­ers, I was orig­i­nally think­ing of using cof­feelizard. Unfor­tu­nately, .net, .org & .com were all pre­vi­ously taken. See­ing as lizard was out, I tried to think of some­thing else and it occured to me I could use a dif­fer­ent ani­mal in the name. And so CoffeeBear.net was born.

Where?

I’m cur­rently based out of Cedar Rapids, IA. Though if I write up a post while on a trip some­place; I will try to tag the post appropriately.

Why?

In part, I was kind of bored and this was a hot, new way to do some­thing inter­est­ing. But also because I wanted some sort of cre­ative out­let allow­ing me to share my thoughts, pho­tos, sketches, what­ever with other people.

How?

This site is hosted with WebKey­De­sign. It is pow­ered by Word­Press, runs the VectorLover2 theme and makes use of a vari­ety of plugins.

Mis­cel­la­neous

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Com­ment Spam

Even worse than nor­mal email spam or the wretched waste of the mil­lions of trees used in pro­duc­ing junk mail; I hate com­ment spam. With var­i­ous anti-comment spam solu­tions, I blocked roughly some 4,000 bits of it from hit­ting this blog. Recently, I switched to using Akismet. Since then it has stopped <?php
$count = get_option(‘akismet_spam_count’);
$count = number_format($count);
echo $count;
?> bits of comment-spams for me.