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, Mark (aka Manzabar). 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 Coralville, 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 a tweaked version of the Spotlight theme and makes use of the following plugins:
- Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter
- Akismet
- Bluetrait Event Viewer
- Branded Login Screen
- Blog Metrics
- Bad Behavior
- Better Comments Manager
- Contact Form ][
- DoFollow
- Easy Gravatars
- FeedBurner FeedSmith
- Feed List
- Flickr Draft Post
- Favatars
- FAlbum
- Google XML Sitemaps
- Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress
- Get Recent Comments
- Geo
- Kottke Style Archive
- LiveJournal Crossposter
- Live Comment Preview
- myStatus
- Now Reading
- Ozh’ Who Sees Ads
- Popularity Contest
- Plugins Used Plugin
- PHPInfo
- runPHP
- Subscribe To Comments
- Simple Tags
- Search Everything
- Scrobbles
- ShareThis Classic
- Text Link Ads
- TFS Core (Text Filter Suite)
- TFS Pirate
- Tagline Randomizer
- wpLicense
- WordPress Database Backup
- wp-cache
- WordPress.com Stats
Lastly, the author pictures were created using the South Park Studio website.
Miscellaneous
If you have any questions about the CoffeeBear.net Terms of Use or Privacy Policy; please visit our legal page.
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 18,965 bits of comment-spams for me.
