WTH! I was following some referral links the other day and found this complete chrisTHIS ripoff blog, mikeTHIS! Call me crazy, but this sure looks exactly the same as my blog, right down to the name! Time to open up a can of whoop-ass on this guy. I mean, seriously… what huevos!

Actually, mikeTHIS.com was originally registered by my friend, Mike, in Texas. He didn’t use it, so he gave it up to my other friend, Mike, in New York. mikeTHIS was the Houston Mike’s idea, and I thought it was so cool that I had to register chrisTHIS. My site went up immediately, his didn’t! NY Mike wanted a cool theme so he grabbed the same one I’m using, created by Chris Harrison, and I made him a “mikeTHIS” logo just like mine for his site’s header.

Congrats, Mike, for getting your new blog up and running. Y’all can bugger on over to chrismikeTHIS.com and give that boy a talkin’ to! Be sure to also check out his Islesblogger blog.

I spent the evening “pimping out” my WordPress blog scripts a bit more. I found a cool Flickr badge replacement that is not Flash (shown to the right), added in a plug-in to easily add videos to my blogs, added in my Nike+ run widget, Twitter summary, and perhaps the coolest thing ever: the ability to blog by email/phone with photos.

I first tried the Flickr WordPress integration, but it didn’t work well at all. It did post a blog, but it completely ignored my text and for some reason ended up making 3 posts instead of 1! Weird! I ended up going with a WordPress script called Postie that does the job, and does it extremely well. The only problem I ran into was I don’t have access to cron with my current Unix host, so I found a web-based cron service that was easy to set up and works great.

This means that not only can I now send messages to Twitter using SMS on my iPhone, but now I can also snap a photo and email it to my blog, along with a headline (email subject) and a description (email body). Now that is some cool stuff.