i've added a couple plugins to wordpress. i was going to add a few more, but i don't have time to tweak them the way i want. so, for now, you will notice the following:

Unfancy Quote. i've always hated how wordpress changed quotation marks and apostrophes like that. i don't want those fancy ones. i want the normal ones. it makes for better copying and pasting. >:P anyway, that's gone now. yay.

Subscribe to Comments. not that anyone will use it. but if you want to, by all means. it's an interesting feature, and i'm getting very used to reading comments by email (thanks to wordpress emailing me all the comments on here… and livejournal doesn't help this much either). i'm not saying my blog is teh buttsecks, but if you're one of those people who likes to read comments on older entries, this feature is for you. just click the subscribe box and all comments that are made after yours will be emailed to you. and, yes, you have an unsubscription option. :P i can manage your subscriptions as well, so if you have problems with this, let me know.

and the one plugin i hope you don't notice…

Akismet. it's supposed to filter out spam. since upgrading to wordpress 2.0, my spam detection has gone out the window. i had a nice little plugin that caught ALL spam, and it let through ALL non-spam messages. it was perfect. but that's gone now. so i'm giving this one a try. so far so good.

speaking of comment spam, one thing that i've noticed is that wordpress is a lot pickier about what comments it lets through. about half the comments you people post are being put into a moderation queue, and it's kind of annoying. i've tested a few things and it looks like your comment is being posted, but it's not. this may come as a surprise to you; it's designed so you can't tell (so you don't repost your comment repeatedly). i think the biggest thing wordpress doesn't like is how some of you aren't putting your actual email addresses. it says right next to the email box that your email will never be published. ever. the only access to those email addresses is an admin account on this blog. i don't even know how to make wordpress publish your email address if i wanted to. so, please, if you don't mind putting a valid email address, i'd appreciate it very much. it saves me work from having to moderate a bunch of comments.

i guess i should mention tanya and karl's wedding. i really wish i could go, and plane tickets aren't that expensive. $400, or so. but i'm poorer than poor at the moment. i have a bad habit of saying i'll go on fun trips like that, but i never go. i am getting $400 free money from my government, but that actually has to be put toward something else. not even an ipod. -_- i'd rather not get into that right now though.

i slept in till 2:30 today. this was the first time i've had a real day off in several weeks. no work and no school. yay. :D too bad i have a bad headache. i think i'm going to get some advil now.