I’m packing it in until the new year, so officially signing off (yeah, right) for a little while. I hope everyone has a great [INSERT REASON HERE] holiday season!
It’s been a big year for me. Lots of ups and downs, but I think I came out of this one ahead. Trying not to make a self-absorbed self-congratulatory post, but wanted to document some of the highlights. I usually forget the lowlights as part of my coping mechanism…
Read MoreBear with any barfage over the next few minutes. The upgrade went well on my desktop copy of the blog, so here goes a live update. Whee!
Update: Had a few moments of “oh, crap.” when the WP back end stopped letting me in. Running /wp-admin/upgrade.php again, and nuking the cookies from my browser appear to have fixed that (but there is a “Bad request: Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Request header field is missing colon separator.” error message showing up in this editing form, and no “media” section is showing up… Uh, oh…
Well, iDoom, anyway. Finally got around to installing iDoom on my 3G iPod, and man, it plays nice. Surprisingly, it’s about as snappy as the original game was on the smoking fast 486 DX 66 I played it on back at the Alberta Science Centre…
I was surprised that it doesn’t use the scrollwheel to control movement - seems like it would be perfect for steering the little Doomer…
The “Performancing” folks just released a plugin for Firefox that provides a fully featured weblog editor, ala Flock. I’m trying it out now - it appears to talk to WordPress OK (well, if this made it to the blog, that is).
It appears to have a decent WYSIWYG editor, but the image embedding doodad doesn’t seem to have an upload utility - so I think you have to manually upload an image and then paste the URL into the image widget. Not fatal, but an “easy” improvement to the plugin. (I know, “easy” is oversimplifying it, since the plugin is aimed at being platform agnostic, so you’d have to have special cases for WP, MT, Blogger, etc…)
Read MoreThanks to a tip/nudge from Cole, I’ve added a way to subscribe to just the podcasts from this blog, with a super happy fun link that triggers iTunes directly (and a less super happy fun one that just gives the URL so you can copy/paste to other podcatchers).
Links are in the sidebar of the blog, or through the wondrous powers of command+C command+V, right in this post.
Read MoreI’d installed Spam_blacklist back in October, but we’d been getting the occasional spam attack since then, lately every single weekend. So I just dug into the Mediawiki config, and realized that Spam_blacklist never got properly configured on my server, meaning it was essentially running wide open. Crap. What a waste of time that was. Paul and I have removed dozens/hundreds of spams over the last few weeks, and I was assuming Spam_blacklist was enabled properly. Oops.
Read MoreI won! Most Beautiful!? Never thought I’d be saying I won a beauty contest…
Thanks to everyone who voted at this year’s Edublog Awards - this blog was voted the “Most beautiful/best designed edublog.” I was pretty surprised - there were some great nominees, and I’ve found lots of (new to me) blogs to follow.
That’s pretty cool. However, I can’t take the credit - I’m really just assembling various off-the-shelf pieces. Massive kudos have to be sent to Michael Heilemann from Binary Bonsai for designing the totally kick-ass K2 theme for Wordpress.
Read MoreThis has me a little nervous. I sure hope Joshua/Yahoo! have decent backups…
There were over 700 bookmarks in there this morning. Now it’s saying my account is empty. Man, that would suck. Definitely the major downside of using an offsite bookmark manager…
It seems like del.icio.us was more stable before Yahoo! got involved. Maybe this is just a big Moving Of Servers from Joshua’s basement to the Yahoo datacentre?
Read MoreIt’s been a couple of weeks since the last Flickr Faves post, and I’ve gone through another set of 36 favorites on Flickr. Some interesting shots of cool places, events, and even some old software…
I realized that there are a few folks that read this blog without the benefit of an RSS aggregator. To each their own, I figure. So, I just installed a handy plugin to let people subscribe to the output of this blog via email.
If that kind of thing turns your crank, head on over to the Subscribe page, where you’ll be provided with links to the RSS and Atom feeds, as well as a handy dandy email subscription form.
Read MoreThere are a few ways to subscribe to this weblog.
Via RSS: Blog Entries, Comments
Via Atom: Blog Entries, Comments
Read MoreIn the last post, I mentioned how the banner images I have on this site are photos I’ve taken at various stages and places of my life. Yes, I took each and every one of them myself.
Then, I realized that all documentation about these photos remains in my head. Which isn’t exactly a permanent or reliable memory store. So, I went and created a first draft of a page describing the images. I’ll update it as I remember more - I’ll have to pull exact dates from iPhoto’s library…
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