Category Archives: Blogging

My little AJAX summer project…a CWOP plugin for WordPress

It’s still fairly lame in that it has no gui yet, but I’ve deemed my summer project for learning some AJAX to be ready for its first release! My weather station sends its data to the internet. Currently the data … Continue reading

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OK whatever…moving to WordPress

At the moment I’m mostly just annoyed by having to remember the very minimal CSS that I’d once figured out as well as trying to comprehend yet another theming system. But I achieved the two basic things I wanted: post … Continue reading

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WP test blog working fairly well now

It was pretty quick and simple to import from my MT blog export. I really need to do some theme/css tweeking.  And set up a little photoblog roll in the front page. I think my MT archives/links are going to … Continue reading

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WP permalinks broken

No big surprise that I’ve hit this given it seems to be one of the most common problems WP users encounter. I’ve been trying to connect with the iPhone WordPress app and have not been succeeding. I still haven’t gotten … Continue reading

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Testing testing 1..2..3

Some first impressions of WordPress: WordPress seems very much influenced by MovableType, coming from the latter.  Who knows…maybe it was the other way around with MT4.  Either way the UI is all very similar. I run a server with multiple … Continue reading

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Comparing MovableType and WordPress

I’ve been contemplating moving off MovableType in favor of WordPress. There are two main reasons: Performance: MovableType’s rebuilding is very annoying. My blog is fairly small, but post times are getting intolerably high. I think for my usage I’d sacrifice … Continue reading

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Gender bender

I’m not sure why anybody would be that interested, but apparently somebody sees a market in determining authors’ sex. Their AI isn’t so smart though. Their site has a poll which shows them only doing slightly better than 50% accuracy. … Continue reading

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Attack of the corporate blog police

A long time ago my employer started to try to wrap its corporate brain around blogging and I posted a disclaimer in response to their suggestion that us bloggers be open about who we are, not hide our identity, misrepresent … Continue reading

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Added Google Analytics

More evidence of my lack of grokking MovableType: This week Gerrit was talking about Google Analytics and it looked interesting. I pay very little attention to who accesses my blog or when, but it seemed like it’d be interesting to … Continue reading

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More MovableType upgrade fixes

Poking further I’ve found I didn’t have archive mappings post MT upgrade and have created them. And I re-undid their silly default file permissions. I see they’ve changed from using underscores to dashes for multiword files/directories. So there’s a bunch … Continue reading

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