Tag Archives: hacking
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 01-Mar-2008
On an impulse, I purchased a bottle of pomegranate molasses. It's pomegranate juice concentrate, with no added sugar, and pours like ketchup. It's not a bright magenta, or red like fresh pomegranates, or grenadine; more of a maroon-brown.
It's very tart and somewhat sweet —prolly nowhere near as sharp as unsweetened ...
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 30-Jan-2008
Chemistry makes everything better!
Adding a bit of acid, i.e., vinegar, made a lot more curds form. Really, dramatically more. More than twice as many curds as last time. This cheese was somewhat firmer and more squeaky. I was relieved that it didn't taste or smell vinegary at all; its flavor ...
Posted on 28-Jan-2008
I always thought cheesemaking was out of reach for a plebe(*) such as myself. Then I saw recipes by Mercedes of Desert Candy and Heidi of 101 Cookbooks, and thought, "Hey, that looks easy."
(*)Here defined as someone who has only purchased cheese, never made it. Not meant as derogatory, just ...
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 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 ...
