I just found out that the good ol’ folks over at WPWebHost.com are holding a pretty cool competition.  The idea is to find the coolest wordpress blog out there.  To do that, anyone that owns a blog can submit their site as an entry by Novemeber 15th and they’ll have a shot at one of the cool top prizes.  Now, to be honest, I doubt ForTheLose.org will win, I just kinda want to see where we place.  I mean, honestly, …

Alright, time for a quick lil’ update about the site.  For one, I hope you guys have noticed the new banner.  I threw it together real quick for Halloween and whatnot.  I was going to decorate the site a bit more, but it’s too much work.  I have better ideas for Christmas however.
Second note.  Guess what turned 1 year old the other day?  If you guess the “forthelose.org” domain, then you guessed right.  It was on October 20th, 2007 that …

You all know what Akismet is, right?  It’s a plugin that is pretty much on everyones favorite WordPress plugins list and it also happens to be pre packaged with WordPress when you download it.  What it basically does is catch comment spam before it is actually posted to your blog.  I’ve only been using this plugin for about 2 months now and to tell you the truth, without it, I’d probably have given up with this whole site thing.

Over 1,000 …

Hey everyone.
It’s Monday! Yay! You know you love it…
To maybe lift your spirits somewhat, guess what? I’ve added two new downloads to the Freebies page. They are only of use for people who use Flash, so sorry to those out there who don’t. Go check them out.
Flash Preloader
One of them is a new preloader I made last night. I figured the one we had up there was just too, what’s the word… ugly, to …

Well looky here.  Two posts in one day, that’s not bad.  Not bad at all…
Anyway, that’s not why you’re here, now is it?  You’re here because you want to read about Google’s new Pagerank update.
What’s A Pagerank?

In case you didn’t catch my last post on it, or if you just don’t know what Pagerank is, here it is in a nutshell.  Google Pagerank is basically how high Google holds you in their standings.  The scale goes from 0 – 10, …

Welcome to the newest version of ForTheLose.org…
That’s right, ForTheLose.org has gone under yet another facelift, this one being 10 times better than any one before.  I spent alot of time making sure this version would be the best of the best, and I’m pretty sure I delivered.  Go take a spin around the site and bask in the awesomeness that is version 4.0 of ForTheLose.org.  Do it, do it now.
Updates
Here’s a quick list of just a few of the upgrades …