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Shoot up this page
Speaking of games, click here to start a game of asteroids on this page (use arrow keys, space bar, and B). (via)
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C. Buda’s Apresurada Reflexiones
What a wonderful sounding translation of my blog… Muchas gracias.
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Get your own custom icon for comments on this blog
The icons (AKA avatars) that appear next to your name in the comments on this blog and many others is controlled by a company called Gravatar. If you sign up on their site, you can choose your own icon and the information that appears when you comment here and anywhere else using Gravatars. Note: Even if you don’t make an account, my site is set up to assign you a randomly-patterned icon each time you comment.
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XFN Link for Buzz
Humans, please ignore this post. <link rel=”me” type=”text/html” href=”http://www.google.com/profiles/cosmicbuddha”/>
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Comments are working again
Now I need to figure out the Gravatar system. But not tonight. In the meantime, I’ve set the system to assign random ugly avatars to people without Gravatars. You’re welcome.
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WPMU: Final thoughts for the time being
WordPress Multi-user is not ready for the big time. This is evident from the fact that it’s not an option accessible from the WordPress GUI (it must be hard-coded by the user into a configuration file on the server). My problem with it is that it relies on flaky rewrite rules you must, again, hard code into your .htaccess file on the server. Also, as I mentioned in my previous post, it makes you use specific directories for file uploading and changes your URL structure as well (credit where credit’s due: One of MT’s greatest strengths is the ability to publish any kind of static file anywhere you want it).…
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Further thoughts on WPMU (WordPress Multi-user)
I’m disliking the fact that I can’t specify a single upload directory (as opposed to a regular WordPress install). The uploads go into dated folders, which I dislike intensely. I dislike it so much, I may just go back to single-user WP again. One plugin that’s been indispensable was one I needed to delete all entries and comments: WordPress Suicide. It saved me from having to do a third reinstall today!
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WordPress Multi-blog and Notepad++ FAIL
One thing MT was a lot better at was support for multiple blogs, because it was designed with this in mind from early on. To enable multiple blog administration and creation from a single installation of WP takes a bit more work (multi-blog was only integrated[and rather half-assedly at that] in the most recent version of WordPress, v3.0). In fact, it had me tearing my hair out when I found out the only way to enable new blog creation in subdirectories (instead of subdomains) was to uninstall WordPress entirely and start all over… So I did that, and started getting funky php errors when I modified the wp-config file per…
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WordPress: Configuration and Find & Replace
I’ve basically decided to break all hyperlinks from the past 7 years and am now publishing to the root of this site instead of the /blog directory. Screw it. It ain’t money to me, and everything going to /blog is getting redirected to / now. To be honest, I can’t be bothered with URL matching from my old MT blog to this new WP one. Like I said, screw it. Google can play catch up with their invincible green nanosecond cloud, and all the hotlinkers (some of them using my pics in their forum sigs for nearly seven years) can suck my /. It was curious to see that there…
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Fuck Six Apart
Once upon a time there was a great hunk of code called Movable Type. It was a powerful tool for self-publishing on the web, unmatched in both flexibility and utility. It was the premiere blogging platform, for many good reasons – new users and developers were infected with joy spread by the more experienced. This was the golden age of MT, and its roots seemed to be spreading far and wide. And then, tragedy. After several key mistakes, Movable Type’s developers decided that hosted services were the wave of the future, and concentrated on feeding their new cash cows. Once king of the barnyard, MT was neglected for years, to…
