Category Archives: Software
Posted on 01-May-2008
Because I no longer require user registration, I finally removed all Subscriber accounts on this site. You should still be able to leave comments, of course, as well as subscribe via the feeds. (My comment policy otherwise remains the same.)
Posted on 12-Apr-2008
Upgrading from WordPress 2.3.x to 2.5 was as smooth as silk. No joke, I made only a few of core changes, but they were on the level of trivial tweaks:
Upload my preferred set of /wp-includes/images/smilies/.
Modify /wp-includes/functions.php to recognize said custom smilies.
Change /wp-includes/category-template.php to say articles instead of topics for title ...
Posted on 18-Feb-2008
While I attempted to upload the previous entry on MAMP, MarsEdit kept giving me the following error:
Can’t post for Iwaruna.com because the server reported an error: parse error, not well formed.
Again, searching through a forum helped. :-) The poorly formed content, in this case an unwanted invisible character, prevented MarsEdit ...
Posted on 18-Feb-2008
Last night there were several brownouts, which may or may not affected how my laptop slept. A rare sleep disorder causes problems when waking up: Right after opening my machine, it spontaneously reboots rather than, er, staying awake. This occurred only once or twice in the past year, but when ...
Posted on 17-Jan-2008
It's that time of the year for another Macworld convention in San Francisco. The Moscone South and West arrangement was confusing, though, with many visitors (such as ourselves) going between the two, trying to find registration and/or not realizing that both buildings contained exhibitors.
Played with the MacBook Air. Oh, my, ...
Posted on 13-Jan-2008
After less than two years of using Gallery 2, I opted for change and have migrated my online photo gallery to ZenPhoto. While powerful and feature-rich, Gallery became too cumbersome to maintain. ZenPhoto, however, is easy to install, use and maintain. It looks and feels refreshingly streamlined. Whenever I work ...
Posted on 04-Jan-2008
Happy New Year! 2008 starts off with...more hackery. I've spent more time working on backend site stuff, rather than, well, content. (Obviously.)
I've found a WordPress plugin which has greatly eased the ongoing task of fixing broken links with redirects: Redirection, by John Godley of Urban Giraffe. If you've overhauled a ...
Posted on 23-Dec-2007
I've hunkered down and merged my WordPress theme changes with the latest version of veryplaintxt (now v4.0). It took me only about week of work, yet I'm still left with my strong wish for The Ultimate Merge Tool. I still use TextWrangler's Find Differences tool (note to self: remember to ...
Posted on 27-Nov-2007
Last week I upgraded my laptop from Tiger to Leopard. The process went quite smoothly.
Backed up to an external firewire drive using Carbon Copy Cloner.
Restarted with Leopard disk, and selected Archive and Install.
Customized the installation by deselecting X11, most of the languages, and all but the Canon and Lexmark printer ...
Posted on 14-Nov-2007
So. I've upgraded this site to WordPress 2.3.1, finally. A few dust flurries remain:
No longer have the fanschy-schmancy archive Ajaxy thingie. Poor Extended Live Archives (ELA), its development has ground to a halt. (Hey, if anyone decides to work on it again, drop me a line. I might be keen ...
