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If you are using Firefox 3, such as we are, some parts of this site are may not rendering properly. None of the videos are showing up. They show up with Internet Explorer or if you use IE Tab on Firefox. Hopefully a fix will be found… Not sure if it is a Wordpress issue [...]

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Not sure what the problem is yet, but if you click on an individual post title, or the More link, it doesn’t work. Even on ones I knew to be working not too long ago. For some reason, I am getting a 404 error when WordPress tries to go to an individual post.
The Permalink structure [...]

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EDIT: As I jumped from 33rd to 1st, this isn’t a Nelson, New Zealand Blog… at least yet. So if you are searching Google or whatever, ignore this entry… hopefully you see this show up before you follow the link. Original post below:
I am presently the 33rd Google result of looking for: Nelson, New [...]

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I got rid of the Tag Cloud on the sidebar to the right. It is still available on the Tag Cloud page and I may bring it back. For right now I put categories back on the sidebar.

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If you see something with a double underline, that is a context link, and not a link I manually generated. Context links are generated by Amazon to help provide revenue to pay for the expense of running this site. I’ll see how well they work out to see if we keep the context links or [...]

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Sorry if you tried to access the site from last night to this morning. Last night the host had a server problem so it was down for a while then. This morning I am upgrading to the newest version of WordPress, the Tarski theme, and a few plugins. The main WordPress upgrade happened already, but [...]

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As you can see, I am back online. I think the total downtime was less than 30 minutes, mostly to wait for my FTP client to delete all the old files from the server and than upload all the new ones. I am not sure why the deleting of the files took so long.
Things that [...]

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The site should be down for a couple hours some time this weekend for maintenance.

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While upgrading the site, I had to turn of Akismet for a few minutes, in that time 2 comment spams slipped through. In the short time it has been installed over all, it has caught 14,467 comment/trackback spams. I have to say, I am glad I am not doing the spam tracking myself, since it [...]

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I recently upgraded to WordPress 2.0.5 but kept getting the following error:
302 Found
The document has moved here.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
That is the error in Firefox, apparently the error in IE shows up as:
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
Most likely causes:
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It might not look too differant, but the theme changed. I stopped using Canvas, a great plugin for WordPress and started using the Tarski theme directly. The newer version of Canvas requires PHP 5, which my ISP doesn’t have yet do to backwards compatibility issues with some older PHP scripts.
There are a few issues being [...]

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If you have gotten Spam from brianathomas.com, please read below the break. The short of it is, it isn’t us but somebody pretending to be us. We don’t spam.

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I had a link so you could test your reflexes in a JavaScript game. However, the game was causing Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7), which I just downloaded, from displaying the page properly.
I have to recommend IE 7. It is a vast improvement over older versions of Internet Explorer. I am not ready to say [...]

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I updated some things on the back end here, but that update caused a few things to break. Namely the Amazon Wishlist and Asides are broken. I have no idea when I’ll fix them. I’ll probably fix the Amazon Wishlist first, then go from there.

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I am trying to move to a constant Title Case here. Basically, all titles should have their first and last word capitalized, and capitalize all other words except a, an, the, at, by, for, in, of, on, to, up, and, as, but, it, or, and nor. I will not be fixing old articles to reflect [...]

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You will notice the tag cloud, just below the Flickr pictures in the sidebar. These replace the old categories that I used before. You will also notice that the more entries a tag has, the bigger it is. (Presently they are in order of number of posts, but they may move to alphabetical later on.)
Since [...]

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I am adding the parent category to each sub-category. For example, Lost is under TV Shows, but most of the Lost posts are tagged Lost only, not TV Shows and Lost. I think I have fixed almost everything except Lost. So the tag cloud in the sidebar should be more reflective of everything here, except [...]

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Selected posts from this point forward may include more tags (see below the post where it says tags). I am not 100% sure on that yet though as it does take a tad bit more work… Adding more tags would complicate the tag cloud in the sidebar so I may stick with the categories/tags that [...]

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Don’t have the time visit Brian A. Thomas .com on a daily basis to look for updates? Well, as I have mentioned on several occasions, use an RSS Reader.
To that end, I give you a listing of a few (all for Windows):
Firefox. You shouldn’t be using Microsoft’ Internet Explorer [...]

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I am trying out a new plugin for WordPress called Canvas. This may change things more drastically than the introduction of widgets for the sidebar. I can’t even begin to say how cool the potential for this is. After people have time to convert their themes to be Canvas compatible, I would guess that Canvas [...]

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