About This Site

How this weblog is run

January 16, 2005

As I have been working on this site, I’ve visited quite a few other weblogs run by WordPress, and occasionally see something that I’d like to know how to do myself. A little widget here, a list of related posts there, etc. Cool things, but nothing that says how to do them. So, if anyone ever has that thought about my site, here’s the info. (Hopefully other WordPress users will do this for their sites.)

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2004 in review

January 13, 2005

2004 was a decent year for us, and as always (at least since I started this blog), I like to take a few moments to reflect on some of the important things that happened.

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Problem with caching plug-in

January 10, 2005

I’ve run into a slight problem with the Staticize caching plug-in I was using to speed up WordPress on this site. It seems that $post->post_date isn’t correctly calculated on cached entries, even when you put them “outside” the cached page, and this screws up the time display on individual entries.

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Done digging for a while

January 8, 2005

I spent a couple of hours yesterday working on a few last lingering details for this site. The main changes I wanted to make were to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress (a minor security update), make sure I was using the latest version of the Kubrick template (I was), and most importantly, fix the problems I was having with the Kubrick comments form.

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A few fixes, still digging

December 5, 2004

This evening I looked at this site’s error log, and found old URLs that no longer worked. And fixed most of them.

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What’s old is new again

December 3, 2004

One of the funny things about converting from one weblog system to another was that I discovered a bunch of old posts which never got, well, posted.

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LTFP

December 3, 2004

I’ve been dicking around with WordPress on my test system long enough. LTFP.

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No, really, back online

November 16, 2004

OK, this time I really mean it, I’m back online with this weblog.

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Back again

September 21, 2004

Problem: For some reason, even though your PHP include_path does contain the location of your include file, PHP cannot seem to actually include() the file. The paths match exactly, and yet you still get errors.

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Quiet, busy, the house…

July 20, 2004

Some of what we’ve been up to for the last four months or so…

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Semi-back online

February 10, 2004

About five minutes after I posted that UPS was going to deliver my new DSL equipment, the doorbell rang. Three minutes later I had the box open on the floor in the office. 15 minutes later I the DSL filters installed on all three phone lines in the house, and the DSL cable plugged in. Five minutes after that, I was online on the new DSL connection. And locked out of this weblog.

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DHI 115-121

May 11, 2003

Daily Home Improvements: HTML work, cable babysitting, redesign work, The World as a Blog, saving junk, RSS work, and some purging of crap.

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