Posted in Technology on Feb 11th, 2007
After a couple of days of additional testing, I discovered a conflict with Photopress (all versions from .0.9.4 – .0.9.7) and the WordPress widget plugin from Automattic. I really liked Photopress for its ease of adding photos to posts although it lacked the functionality to comment on individual photos. Once I deactivated Photopress the WordPress [...]
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Posted in Technology on Feb 10th, 2007
I’m still working with my upgrade to WordPress 2.1. The new widgets feature is intriguing; however, there are also appears to be some unresolved issues with both the widget plugin from Automattic as well as browser specific compatibility problems. A bug was reported on the WordPress support forum for the widget plugin that [...]
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Posted in Aside on Feb 8th, 2007
Just finished upgrading to WordPress 2.1. The upgrade took a while, most of the time can be attributed to me taking extra precautions such as doing multiple backups of the WordPress files and the database. Some tinkering on the theme was necessary to get the random header images to work. Let’s see if posting still [...]
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Posted in Politics on Feb 1st, 2007
One of the bright lights of journalism was extinguished Wednesday when Molly Ivins succumbed in her seven year battle with breast cancer. Her columns had an elemental humor that allowed her to skewer her target without being sanguine; in fact, her style of reporting was indicative of her Texas roots while her focus was [...]
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