New Mobile Design
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 Posted in Site News | 2 Comments »Just a little tech update as all of you know I like to fiddle around with things. More and more people are using phones to browse the net and we here at A Soldier's Perspective realize the main site is ...
The April Fool's Day That Turned Into Two
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 Posted in Site News | 5 Comments »Many of you noticed and emailed CJ about issues ASP was having yesterday. About mid morning, the site started redirecting to Daily Kos, then abruptly redirected to Huffington Post. That final straw was the redirect to EX-Marine John Murtha's official ...
A Soldier's Perspective Now on Twitter
Monday, January 5th, 2009 Posted in Site News | 2 Comments »I decided that is about time ASP launch itself beyond the boarders of the milblogosphere into the world of social networks. I've completed the first step and set up an account for the blog on the popular microblogging site Twitter. ...
Need Opinions on Comments
Sunday, January 4th, 2009 Posted in Site News | 9 Comments »CJ emailed me this evening asking if I could remove the threaded comment feature that came out with the latest edition of WordPress. I really really don't want to do that since the threaded comments can eliminate a lot of ...
Upgrade Complete – Marcus Dances in the Dining Room!
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 Posted in Site News | 5 Comments »You know you're a complete nerd when you get really excited about upgrading WordPress and when you're done you get out of your chair and dance around the dining room. Yes, I really did that. The upgrade didn't take too long, ...
New Version of WordPress Out
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in Site News | 8 Comments »WordPress has released the much anticipated 2.7 release and this is a major upgrade over version 2.6.5 which I never bothered to upgrade to once I learned of the major changes coming in 2.7. The biggest change you readers will ...
Open Question
Monday, October 20th, 2008 Posted in Site News | 11 Comments »I've made a conscious effort with this site to be completely independent of the appearance of a commercial enterprise. However, lately I've been thinking about how I can make a bigger difference by either obtaining non-profit status for the ...
RSS Feeds Now Through FeedBurner
Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in Site News | No Comments »I've created a FeedBurner account for the blog so I can get a better idea of how many folks read the site through RSS. For those of you who might not know about RSS, it basically allows you to read ...
Plug-in Fiascoes!
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Site News | No Comments »Well, this morning I got a wild hair to update our stats plug-in. Well, the stats plug-inI pay attention to. CJ watches one, and I watched another. Long story short, it didn't upgrade its internal database and started throwing out ...
Backend Update
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 Posted in Site News | 1 Comment »Here is a warning order for those visiting the site right now. I'll be putting the blog into maintenance mode shortly to update the blog backend to WordPress 2.6.1. I doubt anything will break, but there is always the chance ...
Alqaeda Leaving Iraq for Afghanistan???
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 Posted in All Hands, Book Reports, General Perspective, Military Perspective, Open Briefing, Political Perspective, Site News | 9 Comments »Posting from "A Soldier's Mind" Greetings, As some of you have already heard, Alqaeda has reportably left their fight in Iraq for the more rugged mountains of Afghanistan. I am here today to tell you that this is a grave trap ...
New Entry to the Blogroll
Sunday, June 15th, 2008 Posted in Site News | No Comments »I've added a new blog to the blogroll over on the right hand side. The blog is written by a female Marine currently out seeing the world on MSG duty (read Travel and Adventure benefit tag, Recruiters and Career Planners). ...
Welcome Back to ASP
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Site News | 22 Comments »I've had the site off line for a few hours while working on a new design. CJ and I have been talking about doing this for close to a year and it is finally done. I hope everyone enjoys the ...
WordPress Upgrade Complete
Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in Site News | 5 Comments »I've finished the WordPress upgrade and this post serves as a test slate to ensure everything works. I've already tested the Javascript more links and those work fine. Author images are pulling correctly. I'm not seeing any errors. This post ...
My Two Cents
Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in Site News | 4 Comments »Well, you've all heard what is going on from CJ. I got a letter very similar to the one he received, and I've followed the instructions in it...so far. I haven't contacted CJ directly so I'm following the demands made ...
