Category Archives: ‘Nuff said

How to Close a WordPress Site

May 18, 2011 – 3:10 pm

I recently was asked to close down a site I had put up using WordPress. I didn’t want to just delete the whole thing, as I figured somebody might want it put back up in the future. There are several easy ways to do this, but I think I’ve found the best. My first impulse [...]

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Search Everywhere in MySQL

May 17, 2010 – 11:04 am

In recent months I’ve been tasked with taking over management of a web site programmed by somebody else. They used Drupal, with which I’m not familiar, and so a big part of the job is simply figuring out how that system works. In many cases I’ve wanted to search the entire database for a particular [...]

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Hackbook finale

October 31, 2009 – 11:54 pm

In between trick-or-treaters I spent today finishing up the repairs to my new/old laptop. The first optical drive I ordered was DOA, so I had to order a new one. Did the swap today. Took a little testing and such, but I now have a fully operational system, (which is nice). In the end, a [...]

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Every Halloween costume you ev…

August 25, 2009 – 8:31 am

Every Halloween costume you ever had was a failure compared to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG8CUHGb1Y4 (via @TheBloggess)

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Mac OS 9 lives!

July 15, 2009 – 9:56 am

Mac OS 9 lives! And it has a browser: http://classilla.org/

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An ode to long URLs

June 25, 2009 – 8:10 am

An ode to long URLs – and a suggestion or two: http://bit.ly/syESq

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10,000 words advocating “sub p…

June 17, 2009 – 10:18 pm

10,000 words advocating “sub plugins” for WordPress, only to discover I’ve just reinvented something called “Interfaces” http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2009-June/026567.html [2011-12-21 edit: updated broken link]

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