Author Archives: Arthur

Don’t thank me!

Posted on February 12, 2006 by Arthur

I‘m not sure if I’ve mentioned it before, but I have a plan for fending off hurricanes (and other related storms) from Nova Scotia. We are (once again) looking forward to another busy hurricane (uh, ‘storm’) season this year. Forget … Continue reading →

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It hurts. Sometimes.

Posted on February 11, 2006 by Arthur

Oh, so it was. While changing the layout, I peeked around at the WP tables and decided to ‘merge’ a couple of older MT-related categories with the appropriate ones. To my surprise, I noticed that the rowcount (or, the number … Continue reading →

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Rate any posts

Posted on February 10, 2006 by Arthur

I noticed that Google Groups (formerly Deja News, Usenet as we called it in the back-days) now allows you to rate posts. A quick look in Google’s help, confirms this feature. You need to log in to GMail (or any … Continue reading →

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Olympics

Posted on February 10, 2006 by Arthur

The start of the Olympics in Torino, Italy also appears to be the start of a lockdown of the ‘NOS Journaal’ for people outside of the right timezone. Over at the Public broadcaster there’s a sobering message saying that some … Continue reading →

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Burnt WordPress

Posted on February 9, 2006 by Arthur

Talking about burnt: it looks like WordPress is pretty much acting up with a couple of ‘SQL-errors’ on my side. They happen to appear around the time I press the ‘Save’ button. WordPress returns the following error: UPDATE IGNORE wp_posts … Continue reading →

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Burnt Toast

Posted on February 9, 2006 by Arthur

I was near to falling asleep when tunes from (apparantly) a CBC show woke me up: Burnt Toast. It’s listed as a romantic comedy opera piece in 8 act, and it sports a list of comedians and opera singers in … Continue reading →

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Jayapura and Eden

Posted on February 7, 2006 by Arthur

To be honest, I’ve been smirking along when reading this article about scientists who apparently found new species in an undiscovered part of New Guinea. These finds are amazing, but not surprising. If there’s one word I associate with New … Continue reading →

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Good stuff

Posted on February 6, 2006 by Arthur

I saw that Markku has added my fixes to his RecentLinks plugin. You should consider updating your plugin, particularly if you run WordPress without that ‘pretty URLs’ option. Then over at Slashdot, I found a link to Goodger’s Blog discussing … Continue reading →

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Local WordPress

Posted on February 5, 2006 by Arthur

A quick guide to help you develop your ‘online site’ offline. Requirements: An offsite test server, preferably running Debian Stable (formerly ‘Sarge’). A good knowledge of MySQL, PHP and Bash Shell access to your online site. Proceed with the following … Continue reading →

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Recent-links bug

Posted on February 5, 2006 by Arthur

There’s a small bug in Rebelpixel’s recent-links plug-in: clicking the monthly archive pages always appeared to return all the recent links, instead of the (selected) month/year. A quick look in the code tells me that it goes wrong between line … Continue reading →

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Zimbra. Browse. Play Ball!

Posted on February 5, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier I was following comments that (eventually) got me stranded at Zimbra. It appears to be a collaboration server with an AJAX (ugh-the name-the-name) frontend. Closer inspection seems to reveal that the product itself is a mix of perl and … Continue reading →

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Upgrade to WordPress 2.0.1

Posted on February 4, 2006 by Arthur

I upgraded to WordPress 2.0.1, which ended up taking shorter than the last time. This time there were however more individual files and directories to delete: I feel tempted to write a shell script to do this for me next … Continue reading →

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Leave Your Mail

Posted on February 4, 2006 by Arthur

Merlin of 43 folders has a golden tip for people getting too many e-mails at work. Turn it off. Well, if you’re feeling really ballsy, you could just just Quit Mail.app (ed. Apple’s main e-mail application) for a few hours … Continue reading →

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