So, we’re back, and re-created as part of our host’s one-click install/upgrade service - no more manual upgrades (uphill! both ways! in january! eight feet of snow! and we liked it!) for us.
If anyone notices anything broken, give a yell or something.
Category Archives: blogging
Administrivia
March 27, 2008 – 10:16 pm
Downtime
March 27, 2008 – 3:52 pm
Doing some maintenance, might disappear for a bit. Hopefully we’ll be back.
Sounds pretty cool
March 18, 2008 – 3:15 pm
A sneak peak at Wordpress 2.5:
A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting? Then WordPress 2.5 might be the release for you. It’s been in the oven for a while, and we’re finally ready to open the doors a bit [...]
…and we’re back!
March 8, 2008 – 1:01 am
Bet you didn’t even notice we were gone.
So anyway, Kelly at dreamhost fat-fingered the firewall and locked out a half-million customers, which wasn’t a big deal to me, but did lead me to head over to dreamhoststatus.com and have some fun snarking in the comments at all the whiny bastards who claim to be losing [...]
WP administrivia, Sandbox
May 30, 2007 – 1:52 am
Upgraded to WP 2.2 and the new version of Scott Wallick’s Sandbox theme (chock full o’ semantic classes). In the process I managed to lose the stylings for co-blogger JMD’s posts, and probably hosed a few other things as well. I’ve got a couple of ideas for a design here, but need to look under [...]
Things I didn’t know yesterday
March 26, 2007 – 1:49 pm
I suppose I’m the only one who didn’t know this, and I’m a little ashamed to even blog it: apparently you can apply multiple classes to a single HTML tag! I suppose that’s the downside to learning by solving problems - if something doesn’t manifest itself as a problem, you never learn it.
The WP theme [...]
That should leave a mark (but probably won’t)
February 12, 2007 – 12:10 am
Kevin Francis delivers a wonderful and well-deserved bitch-slap to the lefties ensconced at the Economist:
Oh dear! This post is just another example of the decline in standards at the “Economist” and the leftward drift that seems to have accelerated since the change in Editor. You’ve drifted a long way from your supposed standards of support [...]
Administrivia
January 10, 2007 – 1:15 am
After upgrading to WP 2.0.6, Spam Karma got a little wobbly - so I reset all its MySQL tables. I’m not sure if this means those of you who’ve been commenting freely might need to be manually re-approved, but if so, I apologize.
Too lacking in Oxy to qualify as Oxymoronic
January 4, 2007 – 5:36 pm
I’ve only just noticed the month-or-so old Political Intelligence, from the Globe.
I imagine it’ll be a real hoot.
Not to sound like a fanboy, but…
December 5, 2006 – 11:53 pm
Paul Pope has joined the blogosphere. Very cool!
(He’s got a Flickr account, too, which made me wonder - do Flickr photostreams have RSS feeds you can sub to? Why, yes - they do.)
Tuneup
July 24, 2006 – 9:54 am
If you’re using WP 2.0.3, and are as irritated as I was by the escaping bug that leaves backslashes behind when editing comments, this guy’s got a plugin fix.
I’m more of a consumer than a producer, but still
July 6, 2006 – 5:58 pm
LOL! Are you a blogoholic?
6. You have the skin color of a corpse
7. You would rather comment on blogs than talk to people face to face
8. You consider any story, idea or photo bloggable
9. You visit everyone on your blogroll at least once a day
10. You have 50 blog posts saved as drafts, none of [...]
File under: thankless tasks
February 12, 2006 – 3:44 pm
Don Boudreaux’s neverending game of whack-a-mole.
Daddy, what’s a “boston globe”?
January 31, 2006 – 11:28 am
So, following a link from TJICblog I find the Globe wants me to register to view its content. I took a quick look at the membership agreement (hidden behind a link rather than presented onscreen during the signup process), and it appears to me that the Globe is trying to protect itself from bloggers:
2. BOSTON.COM [...]
Upgrade hassles
January 3, 2006 – 11:10 pm
WP2.0 moved the upload feature to the post-writing page, which I thought was a good move. However, previous versions of WP allowed admins to create custom paths for uploads… mine points to a directory I created that is not, obviously, part of the default WP installation. The moved upload feature in WP2.0 wants to upload [...]
blogbody contraception
January 3, 2006 – 12:56 pm
Over at LfDC, which suffers from the too-early closing of comments on its posts, nzc cites an article suggesting there is no biological need for women to have periods while taking oral contraceptives. JP opines:
I’m told that there are studies showing that women who skip their periods all together are at higher risk for stroke. [...]
Shiny and new
January 1, 2006 – 3:32 pm
… on the backend, anyway. WP 2.0 has lots of very cool improvements. Hopefully everything will work as advertised (Spam Karma 2 will apparently continue to work, with the addition of a new plug-in).
UPDATE: If you actually use WP’s posting UI, and not some crazy coding tool that takes fifteen years to learn and three [...]