You can tell I’m a baseball fan; I love statistics. I don’t always know what to do with them, I’m always reminded of Mark Twain’s “There are lies, damned lies, and statistics,” and sometimes I can get really squirrelly with stats. Numbers, hard data — these are fun things, even if they’re completely meaningless and,Continue reading “On the Latest Blog Stats”
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On Early Morning Coding
Well, that was a frustrating two hours of working with PHP code. :-/ Our story began last week; I changed my blog’s theme to Tarski, which I ran with for a while and really liked. (To be honest, I don’t even remember why I changed.) Tarski is not easy to work with under the hood,Continue reading “On Early Morning Coding”
On Changing the Decorations
Christmas has passed (unless you’re Orthodox, and then you have a few days left), and I felt the itch. The itch to change my blog theme, that is. I had a wintry theme going for the holidays. The holidays are past. “Change, m’dear, and not a moment too soon!” and all that. 🙂 And sinceContinue reading “On Changing the Decorations”
On Test Driving New Features
For shits and giggles, I downloaded the WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate. I was curious, first, what it would look like “under the hood.” I knew they were putting together a new user interface, and I wondered what that looked like. I knew they were planning some new features, and I was curious about those, too.Continue reading “On Test Driving New Features”
On Talking Blogging
James Bow pointed me in the direction of this, two questions that basically ask, “Why blog?” Let’s take a look at both, and see what sort of bloggery insights I may have in answering Amy’s questions… What is one thing you wish you knew about blogging when you started or what advice would you giveContinue reading “On Talking Blogging”
On My First Blog Post
I logged into my WordPress install this evening, not really having anything on my mind to blog about, until I saw a link to this — Do You Remember Your First Blog Post? WordPress gives me an aggregation of links to some WordPress-related blogs. At one time I had a plugin installed that simply blockedContinue reading “On My First Blog Post”
On WordPress Bugs, Not Features
“It’s a feature, not a bug!” It’s a classic line. A Microsoft line. About how bugs in software aren’t really bugs, they’re undocumented features. WordPress 2.6 has a new feature called “Post Revisions.” Basically, every time you edit a post, you can “roll back” the post and undo changes, as users can with Wikipedia. ItContinue reading “On WordPress Bugs, Not Features”
On Future Proofing
Our story begins a little more than a month ago. A young woman posted on the WordPress support fora that she wanted to move her blog to WordPress, and she needed to know if it would be possible to bring her website’s design over as well. My curiosity was piqued, and seeing an opportunity toContinue reading “On Future Proofing”
On Resuming Normal Service
And now, after Retro Weekend, we resume normal blogging service. Who knows? Maybe in a couple of months, I’ll feel the need for another Retro Weekend, I’ll put some Creedance in the old stereo, and we’ll rock out again like it’s 1999. 😆 In the meantime, though, I need coffee. And a good descruffyfication. InContinue reading “On Resuming Normal Service”
On a Retro Weekend
When I was a kid, way back in the early ’80s, a local radio station — Q101, in Harrisonburg, Virginia — used to have “Hot Wax Weekends.” They’d pull music out of the vault and turn back the clocks. It was on a Hot Wax Weekend that I discovered Creedence Clearwater Revival. I first heardContinue reading “On a Retro Weekend”