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July 18, 2008
0:08
The countdown begins.
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So, while transferring, fortifying, and oaking what remains of last year’s Chaimera tonight, I had an idea that I’d like to throw out to the rest of the valiant Flagon Slayers: Year End Party. Bring the best you’ve made, period. I’ll put down a bottle of Chaimera, Cyser, Cider, some of the Atomic Porter, and [...]
July 10, 2008
2:19
And Tonight’s Experiment…
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My brain really wasn’t up to programming today, so I went to Fautz’s and bartered for another carboy (and got an old SPARCstation IPX from his collection, somehow), then tried my hand at a rice wine. Not sake, but an interesting looking recipe from The Joy of Home Winemaking. The whole section on grain wines [...]
June 10, 2008
16:33
Ginger Ale at 13%? Impossible!
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Oh, but it’s not only possible, but delicious. Just in time for summer, the recipe is here: Ripper Jack Ginger Ale. And, since I’ve been sitting here procrastinating, here’s another for Pomegranate Mead. Some interesting news from the Wall Street Journal, now, on the Campaign for Real Ale. Do you get your full pint at your [...]
May 05, 2008
17:03
New Admin Bar Design
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Today we launched a redesigned admin bar, the handy toolbar you see at the top of every WordPress.com blog when you’re logged in. We’ve retired the old flat blue look in favor of something that better matches the swanky new WordPress.com dashboard. Here’s a before and after view: The new admin bar is designed to command less attention [...]
May 04, 2008
15:53
Default Avatar Options - Identicons
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Now you can customize how avatars show up on your blog, including some cool never-before available options: You can find these options under Settings > Discussion. Here’s what you can do: Turn avatars on and off, which applies to their display on your blog. Choose a rating, which right now only works for Gravatars but as we integrate WordPress.com [...]
May 02, 2008
2:25
April Wrap-up and Monotone Photoblogger Theme
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April absolutely flew, I have no idea where it went. Here’s what you rascals did last month, with a few new and improved stats: 240,494 blogs were created. 281,729 new users joined. 2,533,704 file uploads. (Y’all use the new uploader a lot more.) About 740 gigabytes of new files. (Estimated, better number next month.) 317 terabytes of content transferred from our [...]
April 30, 2008
5:41
WordPress.com in Brazil
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Given the recent news that WordPress.com might be blocked in Brazil, we would like to share some information about the case and our response. A Brazilian judge ordered that one blog hosted at WordPress.com should be blocked in Brazil. A local ISP association mentioned it would do so via IP address blocking, something that would compromise [...]
April 25, 2008
13:59
Possibly an Announcement
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Blog posts can be a total tease. You get to the end and you’re ready for more, but all that’s there is maybe some post navigation, and if you’re lucky a few comments. If your appetite was whetted by the awesome post you just read there’s no place for you to go, except maybe to [...]
April 14, 2008
16:02
Search WordPress.com
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We’ve heard this search thing is going to be big some day. Google or Yahoo are great for finding general stuff on the web at large, but sometimes you want to find real posts from real people, and blogs are great for that. There are blog search engines, but when you search for “kittens” you’re as [...]
April 13, 2008
22:11
Traveling brewparty for the win!
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Sorry, once again it’s been too long since we’ve posted anything. The current plan for the intrepid Flagon Slayers is still the traveling party, brewing together a minimum of every two weeks. Ross and I are trying hand at growing our own hops this year, as well: Fuggles and Cascade for me, and Wilamette, Cascade, [...]
April 04, 2008
17:44
New Dashboard Design and March Wrap-up
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Today we’re pretty excited to launch a new dashboard design to everyone here on WordPress.com. If you have a few minutes, try clicking around and exploring the new layout and features. It’ll be unfamiliar at first, but like riding a bike you’ll find yourself picking up new habits and cruising down the road in no time. Those [...]
April 01, 2008
12:49
Book Deals
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Stuff White People Like and I Can Has Cheezburger have been topping our Blogs of the Day charts for some time. Now the New York Times reports that both of those blogs have received book deals. “Stuff” apparently got a $300k advance. The books based on their blogs are due out this Fall. Congratulations to [...]
March 02, 2008
23:02
February Wrap-up
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February is the hardest month for me to spell, and also the shortest of the year, but it seemed like as good as any to start our wrap-ups back up with: 245,329 blogs were created. 432,478 new users joined. 1,920,593 file uploads. 2,814,893 posts and 996 thousand new pages. 4,961,330 comments. 3,813,432 logins. 540,799,534 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 304,499,648 on self-hosted [...]
February 08, 2008
2:18
Summarize More
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Here is another feature from the “meant to fully support that a long time ago” department. Summarized stats are now available for referrers, search terms, and clicks. Many people find the new results to be longer and more enjoyable. Your experience may vary. Oh, and a tip for the truly stats-obsessed: we don’t update the database more than [...]
January 18, 2008
16:49
2008 already?
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Wow, time flies. I’ve been brewing a lot more than I’ve been writing lately, which is good for me, bad for those following along at home. I did find the time to finish writing up my favorite of the latest brews, the Christmas Cyser, and it’s one I’d really recommend. Big news on the [...]
October 26, 2007
13:55
Fun with Pumpkins
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Well, Halloween’s coming up, and I haven’t updated in quite some time, for the simple reason that we haven’t been up to brewing anything lately. There are two links that really need to be passed on, though, both involving pumpkins. The first is actually brewing related: an interesting flickr photo stream about brewing in a [...]
September 13, 2007
21:36
Happy Programmers’ Day!
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September 13th is the 256th day of the year, which we all know is the number of possible values in 8 bits (what most people mean when they refer to a byte. Not the old PDP guys with their 36 bit words, but I digress), and is therefore suited to a semi-unofficial holiday. I took [...]
August 29, 2007
12:34
The Device
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Stumbled across a link to a self-described, all-in-one beer brewing machine today on Gizmodo called simply The Device. The Device includes CO2-pressurized hoses that move the liquid through each stage of the brewing process and temperature control to regulate the fermentation vessel. Keep checking back for more information about Flagon Slayer’s own, Linux controlled, fermentation temperature regulator.
August 19, 2007
16:21
I heart Bender and St. Bart
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First and foremost, if you haven’t been to http://www.asciimation.co.nz/bender/, you must. Simon is my new hero for building a real live Bender Fermenter. Words can not express. I’ve been looking into growing my own hops, and it looks surprisingly cheap / easy / fun. Farms will ship you hop rhizomes for $3-$5, depending [...]
July 29, 2007
23:39
Back in the Ville.
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I’m back, and it’s high time for an update. First off, here’s a highly un-instructional video that a couple of us put together for a now mostly-defunct group called HackLouisvile entitled “How Not to Brew Beer“. You’ll need QuickTime to play it, and it’s NSFW due to language. I managed to find an old [...]
July 05, 2007
16:48
Update
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I leave for California tomorrow, so thought I’d get an update in. Put the Cyser into primary, with the addition of 1/4 cup brown sugar to darken the flavor a little more. It smells delicious, with a 1.121 starting gravity, and should be perfect by December. Full writeup when I rack it [...]
July 01, 2007
18:14
RFC: Christmas Cyser
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Now’s the time to be laying in for the winter months, so I thought I’d make something Christmassy. The idea at the moment is as follows: 2.5 pounds honey 1/2 gallon organic apple juice 1/2 pound raisins several sticks cinnamon 20-30 paradise seeds, crushed …as well as the usual additives. I’m concerned about the raisins, though, as I don’t [...]
June 30, 2007
16:22
Hello world!
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Hail, brewers! Flagon Slayer Brewery is group of techie homebrewers who congregate around Louisville, KY. We believe that there’s something special about creating a living, bubbling entity, who just happens to produce our friend, Ethanol. We’ll be sharing recipes and brewing methods along the way, and keep you updated as the batches mature. Hopefully a [...]