I’ve been asked if my Shire Reckoning WordPress plug-in would ever be available as a WordPress widget. As of today, it is. Installation is a snap. Download the .zip file. Extract the file and upload it to your widgets directory. Activate the Shire Widget plug-in. Then on your widget management screen, drag it to yourContinue reading “Again, On Shire Reckoning”
Author Archives: Allyn
On a Pointless Quest
And there was much rejoicing! I found a Windows binary for PernAngband! Okay, okay. Most of you reading this are probably saying to yourself, “Huh? Wha? Who?” PernAngband. There’s a computer game called Angband. It’s a text-based dungeon crawl, a Rogue-like game similar to Hack and NetHack, a descendant of Rogue and Moria. Where HackContinue reading “On a Pointless Quest”
On Getting Things Fixed
Hopefully, this will be the last post on upgrading WordPress. Hopefully. 😉 It took about two hours, but the sidebar links finally work again. It wasn’t an easy fix–I dug through files of the WordPress code to figure out how the new WordPress code passed arguments to the database to pull link categories and, byContinue reading “On Getting Things Fixed”
On Upgrading
And now, today, we’re on WordPress 2.1. I’m not sure why the upgrade failed yesterday, though I’ve left a couple of plug-ins turned off just to be safe. Unfortunately, the links in the sidebar have been replaced with an SQL error message. I’m going to work on getting that sorted forthwith. On the backend thereContinue reading “On Upgrading”
On Unnecessary Pain
Note to self: Wait a few days before upgrading WordPress to version 2.1. Might be a problem with the software. Might be a problem with the Tarski theme. Either way, unique and exciting failure modes! Getting the website back up and running — two of the most nerve-wracking hours of my life. Interesting. Ultimate TagContinue reading “On Unnecessary Pain”
On Grand Fenwick
Turner Classic Movies showed yesterday afternoon The Mouse that Roared, the late-50s movie starring Peter Sellers about the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, a long-forgotten English-speaking country on the continent of Europe whose only export was Pinot Noir Grand Fenwick, who declares war on the United States when a California winery begins producing Pinot Noir GrandContinue reading “On Grand Fenwick”
On Biblical Scholarship
You know the Bible 97%! Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses – you know it all! You are fantastic! Ultimate Bible QuizCreate MySpace Quizzes Yeah, I skunked a bunch of y’all. And I’m theContinue reading “On Biblical Scholarship”
On Fantasy Archetypes
As seen on Keith’s LiveJournal: What Fantasy Archetype Are you? The Unlikely HeroYou are the Unlikely Hero! Others like you are Frodo (Lord of The Rings), Young Aurthur (arthurian Legend), Luke Skywalker (Star Wars), Peter/Susan/Edmund/Lucy (Narnia), Richard Mayhew (Neverwhere), Harry Potter (Harry Potter) and Richard Cypher (Wizard’s first Rule). You were happy to just liveContinue reading “On Fantasy Archetypes”
On Sarcasm
You’re Totally Sarcastic You sarcastic? Never! You’re as sweet as a baby bunny. Seriously, though, you have a sharp tongue – and you aren’t afraid to use it. And if people are too wimpy to deal with your attitutde, then too bad. So sad. How Sarcastic Are You?
On Revisiting The Third Age
My recent musings on EA’s video game Lord of the Rings: The White Council and its possible cancellation put me in a Tolkien gaming mood. I wanted to play a Lord of the Rings video game, I wanted to mercilessly kill Orc after Orc, but which game to play? I settled on The Third Age,Continue reading “On Revisiting The Third Age”