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Tag Archives: WordPress
WordPress 2.5 – installed
Last night I upgraded to WordPress 2.5. It was amazingly painless, with no glitches at all. As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, most of the changes are on the administrative side rather than the blog formatting side. Should … Continue reading
WordPress 2.5
The folks over at WordPress have just put out a major new release of their open source blogging software, now at level 2.5. Over at the WordPress blog, Matt describes it thusly: WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of … Continue reading
links for 2008-03-13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Beta released “So the new RHEL 5.2 desktop will come with the absolute newest of the major Linux desktop applications. These include Evolution 2.12.3, Firefox 3, OpenOffice 2.3.0 and Thunderbird 2.0.” (tags: redhat opensource linux) … Continue reading
Tweet, tweet
I’m starting to put in place some changes to the look and feel of this site, some of which are minor and others that may be more involved. Today I started by doing one very simple thing: I added a … Continue reading
Categorizing and tagging, tagging and categorizing
As I previously announced, I’ve been working on cleaning up the categories and the tags I use for blog entries. I’m now down to 8 “old categories” that you can see if you scroll down and look on the right-hand … Continue reading
links for 2008-02-01
Redirection – Manage 301 redirections without modifying Apache | Urban Giraffe “Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have.” (tags: wordpress plugin) Echoing … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Microsoft, OOXML, Second Life, WordPress
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Blog front page is AWOL
Something happened overnight and the front page of my WordPress 2.3.2 blog is no longer being displayed. Archives and single entries are fine. We’ll be back as soon as this fixes itself or gets otherwise debugged. Update: evidently my site … Continue reading
WordPress 2.3.1, comments, and email
Thanks to those who 1) pointed out a problem with the blog after my upgrade to WordPress 2.3.1, and (even better), 2) told me how to fix it. The submission of comments was broken in that they would appear for … Continue reading
WordPress 2.3.1
I just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.3.1. It was a simple process, especially because I have no custom code outside the wp-content directory. I’ve also reactivated aLinks to get standard links for terms like “Bob Dylan”. Mint is still … Continue reading
Upgrade to WordPress 2.3
I just did the upgrade to WordPress 2.3. There are a few glitches on the page, such as the category listing, but I’ll get those straightened out asap. Let me know if you see anything else. Thanks. Update: I’ve stopped … Continue reading
WordPress as comment big brother
A strange thing just happened to me. I was posting a couple of quick replies in my blog and after I submitted the second one, WordPress gave me a message to slow down because I was commenting too quickly. I’m … Continue reading
New StumbleUpon + fixed Digg and del.icio.us entry submissions
Tonight I made it easy to submit my blog entries to StumbleUpon, if you are so inclined. There is a new little image and link at the end of the article. In setting this up, I fixed bugs in the … Continue reading
links for 2007-06-01
WordPress WordPress Compressed All-Inclusive Ping List List of services to allow WordPress to ping in order to notify them that your blog has been updated. (tags: WordPress ping blog) Macintosh Apple – Support – GarageBand – Recording Your Podcast “While … Continue reading
Posted in Blog and Website, Macintosh, News, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Apple, New Zealand, ODF, WordPress
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links for 2007-05-19
Double the Standards, Double the Complexity Simon Phipps, SunMink: Message to Denmark: Dual Format Standards Are Bad “Having a single, baseline standard for document files is clearly preferable, and because of its complexity and the way it unfairly advantages Microsoft’s … Continue reading
Read the rest of this entry …
I’ve started using the “more” feature of WordPress and this means that certain longer entries will appear on the main, category, and archive blog pages with “Read the rest of this entry …” at the bottom. You’ll then need to … Continue reading
Site was down for an hour
This afternoon, the sutor.com site, including this blog, was down for about an hour with a “CPU Exceeded” problem. This meant that somehow it was chewing up a lot of the computing resources on the shared server on which the … Continue reading
WordPress 2.2 released
Hot on the heels of my installing WordPress 2.1.3, a new major version, 2.2 was released today. Details are on the WordPress site. Personally, I’m going to wait several weeks just to let things shake out a bit, but the … Continue reading
links for 2007-05-16
Geekdad – Wired Blogs Celebrating the intersection of children and technology, some of it pretty primitive. (tags: blog kids science education fun) Hibbing Public Library: Dylan Days Exhibits at the Library In case you are in Hibbing, MN, on the … Continue reading
Posted in Bob Dylan, Music, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Bob Dylan, Linux, Microsoft, Second Life, Ubuntu, WordPress
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links for 2007-05-13
Open Source FON Abandons Microsoft, Adopts Ubuntu | FON Blog “As of today Fon will disengage from Microsoft and adopt Linux in the Ubuntu form as our operating system of choice.” (tags: Microsoft ubuntu linux) Gordon’s Blog: Switching from Windows … Continue reading
Not blogging with OpenOffice
I just saw a search hit on this blog where someone was searching for “blogging with OpenOffice.” (I know I’m supposed to say OpenOffice.org, but it’s hard to get in that habit.) I don’t blog from OOo, but I wouldn’t … Continue reading
links for 2007-05-12
Smorgasbord At USC, developing game coders | CNET News.com “USC’s video game programs have borne significant fruit, in large part because the school has made it clear to the industry, and to students interested in being part of the industry, … Continue reading
Posted in Blog and Website, Games, News, Open Source, Programming
Tagged conference, WordPress
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Apache, PHP, Mac
The good news is that since the Mac OS X is based on the BSD flavor of Unix, it comes with things like PHP and Apache. The bad news is that both are pathetically backlevel. This is fixable, however, and … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, Open Source, Programming
Tagged Apache, Linux, MySQL, PHP, Ubuntu, WordPress
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links for 2007-05-11
Open Source Red Hat tries new desktop Linux angle | CNET News.com “Red Hat announced a new version of its Linux software on Wednesday geared for desktop and laptop computer customers in developing nations.” (tags: redhat linux desktop) Once More … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Google, Linux, Ubuntu, Video, WordPress
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Mint, WordPress, and software philosophy
In my last brief entry I mentioned how I had broken the RSS and ATOM feeds when upgrading to WordPress 2.1.3 and then hurried to mention that it was not WordPress’s fault. I installed a new version of the Mint … Continue reading
Broken feeds fixed but evolving
I didn’t realize it last night, but I broke the ATOM and RSS 2 feeds when I did the upgrade to WordPress 2.1.3. It wasn’t, in fact, a WordPress problem, but some sort of problem with the Mint Bird Feeder … Continue reading
links for 2007-05-10
WordPress Automattic Stats « Extend › Plugins New WordPress statistics plugin. (tags: wordpress plugin blogging statistics stats) Sun eWeek: Can JBI 2 Succeed Where JBI 1 Did Not? “As Java Business Integration 1.0 failed to become the success its supporters … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Java, OpenOffice.org, real estate, Solaris, Sun, WordPress
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Blog scheduled downtime tonight
I’m planning to upgrade to WordPress 2.1 later tonight and so the blog might be down, unstable, or just comically wacky for some time between 9 and 11 PM EST. Remember, May is “Move your website to a new host … Continue reading
links for 2007-05-07
Making ‘Minority Report’ computer navigation a reality | CNET News.com The image of Cruise manipulating windows in 3D left a lasting impression on me as well. (tags: display movies) James Governor’s Monkchips » WordPress is The Most Innovative Open Source … Continue reading
Building another website
In my spare time I’m working on another website that will be blog-centric. Unlike what I did with sutor.com, I’m making some fundamentally different choices, primarily because I’m not starting with legacy pages. Also, I hope I know more than … Continue reading
Up and running again
We’re back! My website sutor.com is now running on a new hosting provider and I think all the pieces are up and operational. The most time consuming aspect was uploading all the photos in the album. I’ve restored the WordPress … Continue reading
