Wordpress

Today was a good day, TCB-wise: I finished reading Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman. There are a few really terrible entries in this collection of short stories, but mostly it’s a good read. Upgraded this blog to the latest Wordpress, and switched to the veryplaintxt theme. I’m enjoying the minimalist theme, but Wordpress appears to have eaten a lot of my tags. Submitted Elixir for inclusion in Fedora. Elixir puts an Active Record layer on top of SQLAlchemy, meaning you can do SQLObject-like things with better database support. »

Since I’m running through the wordpress install again, I figured I’d take Marc’s advice and ‘blog my changes’. Plugins: Ultimate tag warrior feedburner related posts seo title tag sitemap widgets Tarski links widget Popularity Contest (disable visible rankings for external viewers) Tarski theme: Edit footer.php to remove the recent entries section and lower sidebar. Edit sidebar.php to always show the “Main Sidebar” widget thing, and only show the “Widget Footer” one for the front page, to make the sidebar shorter for individual posts. »

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr- frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Spook in her box tunnel, originally uploaded by James Bowes. I’m still playing around with the new hotness that is wordpress. This is me using the ‘blog this’ feature in flickr. Above is our girl cat, spook, playing in a tunnel made from free cardboard boxes, sent to us from eBay and the USPS. »

I’ve moved my blog and associated pages from Dal CS to the dangerously incompetent data center. Also, I’ve moved it from pybloxsom to wordpress, mainly because of what Marc has written about it. So far I’m very impressed. The most difficult thing has been setting up redirects from my old cs pages to these new ones, due to the apache configuration at Dal. I’ve had to do silly things like making a directory called “cv.html”, and placing an index.php file in there that will write out redirect headers. »