Category Archives: blogging

Administrivia

Posted on March 27, 2008 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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Downtime

Posted on March 27, 2008 by dff

Doing some maintenance, might disappear for a bit. Hopefully we’ll be back.

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Sounds pretty cool

Posted on March 18, 2008 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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…and we’re back!

Posted on March 8, 2008 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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WP administrivia, Sandbox

Posted on May 30, 2007 by dff

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. … Continue reading →

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Administrivia

Posted on May 14, 2007 by dff

Upgraded to WP 2.1.3. Give a yell if anything seems busted.

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Things I didn’t know yesterday

Posted on March 26, 2007 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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That should leave a mark (but probably won’t)

Posted on February 12, 2007 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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Best blog name ever!

Posted on January 14, 2007 by dff

You really can’t beat this for a blog name.

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Administrivia

Posted on January 10, 2007 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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Too lacking in Oxy to qualify as Oxymoronic

Posted on January 4, 2007 by dff

I’ve only just noticed the month-or-so old Political Intelligence, from the Globe. I imagine it’ll be a real hoot.

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Not to sound like a fanboy, but…

Posted on December 5, 2006 by dff

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.)

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Tuneup

Posted on July 24, 2006 by dff

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.

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I’m more of a consumer than a producer, but still

Posted on July 6, 2006 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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What the internet is for, part 2

Posted on February 26, 2006 by dff

Does my ass look fat in these pants?

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File under: thankless tasks

Posted on February 12, 2006 by dff

Don Boudreaux’s neverending game of whack-a-mole.

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Daddy, what’s a “boston globe”?

Posted on January 31, 2006 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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Upgrade hassles

Posted on January 3, 2006 by dff

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, … Continue reading →

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blogbody contraception

Posted on January 3, 2006 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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Shiny and new

Posted on January 1, 2006 by dff

… 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 … Continue reading →

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