On my websites, I try to focus much more on content than the facade. Don’t get me wrong — I do think presentation is important. Generally speaking, though, once I have a satisfying theme set up I’m not apt to make any significant changes for a while. It seems that the time for change is nigh.
Read more...Being a programmer-type-fellow, I found this hilarious…and a marvelous idea. (Yes, I’m a geek…how can you not know this by now?) xkcd: …
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The Regulator is a Windows program whose sole purpose is to test and learn and use regular expressions. Regular expressions are a way to describe how to search for text–and optionally to do a replacement or several. They can be daunting at first, but once you
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This past week has been largely about prepping for the great Wordpress 3.0 migration. So…programming, theme-building, and some interesting little hacks that have allowed me to level-up a bit with WP3.
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Confounded by a seeming lack of ability to accurately migrate users from one or more pre-3.0 WordPress (WP) blogs into a WordPress 3.0 (WP3) blog, I scribbled up some code to take care of the snarky part of the move.
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I hope that WordPress will provide some automation to migrate users from WordPress 2.9.x to WordPress 3.0. Since I don’t want to be caught with my proverbial pants down, I’ve been hacking together a little migration program.
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It’s been interesting to watch this year’s round of Poll-ballot-stuffing a/k/a which bubble show should be saved surveys. Every season, the passionate fans of a series band together and do their level best to flood sites with just as many votes as possible.
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Once you’ve lived long enough, and have a lot of memories in the ol’ grouch bag, it’s hard not to pause every now and then to consider that unique collection that adds up to your life. Like you, I have a variety of event-mementos good, bad, and hard to define. Mostly, though, I prefer to pull out those things that still make me smile.
Read more...Well, it’s been a busy few days. We had a couple of new arrivals this past weekend and they have been keeping …
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I was reading a story about how this computer from 1985 was becoming a museum piece, and couldn’t help but chuckle to myself about how times have changed. Like many who will read this blog, I started playing with computers when I was a kid…
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