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Now using Hybrid and a child theme
I’ve been interested in switching to a theme framework and after looking at both Hybrid and Thematic, I’ve begun plugging into Hybrid with the child theme WP Full Site.
It’s a fun little exercise and Hybrid has lots of places to make changes just using a child theme. The WP Full Site function.php file has already [...]
And the winner is Xmarks
Earlier I had dropped Xmarks and installed Mozilla Weave. After a few weeks I’m back to Xmarks. Syncing the browser history is a very useful feature, but some really weird things have been going on with my Weave sync data lately.
My problems began when I installed Weave on my Ubuntu 9.10 work station. I could [...]
Mozilla Weave
I’m giving Mozilla Weave a try. I’ve been a big fan of the extension formally known as Foxmarks (Xmarks) so when Mozilla released Weave, I was not sure if there was anything for me to look at.
I use a work PC, my HP, and a laptop. Xmarks has been good at keeping my bookmarks and [...]
Recycling an old printer
Stefan had replaced his old Epson Stylus Photo R300 printer a long time ago and dropped it off at my house. It’s a USB Epson inkjet printer that has been replaced a couple of times over. I don’t even know what the current model is, but this one was free so who cares?
Naturally, I hooked [...]
Wow, Skype looks different
I was catching up with a friend and she asked me if I still used Skype. When she and I worked at the same company, instant messaging and Skype were very popular.
I have not used Skype or IM for many months. With Skype I was getting weird spammy contact requests so I left it off. [...]
MSN Toolbar and Firefox
My current PC is a HP i7 workstation and I’ve tried to keep the software it came with in place. For example, it comes with a 15 month subscription to Norton Internet Security. Even though I have a valid license for Norton 360, I can now save that license for another PC.
The HP PC also [...]
Moving WordPress again
I have been running my blog on the URL wp.dembowski.net for years. If you are familiar with WordPress then that’s an OK URL to use but most people are more comfortable with a generic name.
I did not want to use www.dembowski.net (already used for a place holder) and did not want to put move to [...]
WordPress 2.9 is released!
I just got home from Christmas shopping and my SVN pull down of the trunk was 3.0-alpha. Which told me 2.9 is released and I should switch to the 2.9 branch.
As always it’s just
cd wordpress-directory
svn sw http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/2.9/
And that’s it. I’m now on the 2.9 branch.
I’ve been using the 2.9 beta for a few weeks now [...]
Beware the canary mismatch on efree monster
For traffic logs, I use Clicky Web Analytics and take a look from time to time. See that flat dark blue line? Around noon on December 3rd my blog stopped serving web pages and it was not until about 5 hours later that I noticed it. I don’t get a lot of traffic but I [...]
Now trying OpenDNS SmartCache
If you are an IT/Network professional with UNIX/Linux/BSD experience and you have a network at home, you really can’t resist playing around. It’s the best way to learn and causing outages at home will only irritate your family.
I’ve been using Google Public DNS for a day or two and it’s fast and responsive. Even though [...]
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