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Planned books:
- The Dark River (Fourth Realm Trilogy, Book 2) by John Twelve Hawks
- A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston
- Feed (Newsflesh, Book 1) by Mira Grant
Current books:
Recent books:
- Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
- Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert
- The Copywriter’s Handbook, Third Edition: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells by Robert W. Bly
- The Traveler (Fourth Realm Trilogy, Book 1) by John Twelve Hawks
- Jonathan Strange by Susanna Clarke
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Tag Archives: WordPress
I guess not PHPGedView
Since I used it before I thought I would return to it, but when I go to access the page it takes me to one of the WordPress [..]
Pages Gone
Either I deleted them, which I don’t recall, or they got deleted somehow. I’ll have to look over old tables to make sure…
Site Upgraded
Well, I finally upgraded the site. I have to say I like where WordPress is going with things. I don’t think there are too many changes so far [..]
New Theme
As you may have noticed, I am using a new theme. I really dig the theme. It gives lots of cool options on the front that I seemed [..]
Odd Bug
Hmm…. It looks like all my posts lost their Categories and Tags. Hopefully this is just a temporary hiccup on the database. Tags are back, and older posts [..]
Odd Firefox 3 Bug on This Site
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 [..]
Individual Posts Not Showing Up
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 [..]
The Trouble with Joomla!
I was thinking of using Joomla! for another website that I was thinking of building, since that website wouldn’t be a full blog. Joomla! is more of a [..]
Intense Debate
Okay, so I have been playing with Intense Debate (ID) for today. Most of the problems I have run into are either problems with compatibility with my theme, [..]
Site’s Text
The text for this website seems to be funky. For some reason the white background is missing, I am working on it. EDIT: As you may be able [..]
Fixing GStyles
I am working on fixing the theme I am using, GStyles (available here) and trying to make it work with WordPress 2.3. So far I have fixed index.php [..]
Tag Suggest Thing
With WordPress 2.3 doing away with Ultimate Tag Warrior and having tags built in, it lost the ability to do suggest tags for you. Christine From The Internet, [..]
Scripturizer is Out There
I managed to find the new repository for Scripturizer, and it does work in WordPress 2.1, which the older version did not for some reason. I am using [..]
Back Online
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 [..]
Comment Spam
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 [..]
WordPress 2.0.5 302 Not Found Error
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 [..]
Trying to Write My Own Widget
Calling all WordPress Widget experts, I am trying to write my own widget, but I am not having luck. I get it to show up in the plugins [..]
More PHP Editing
I edited the PHP on the WP-Amazon Plugin for WordPress. I wanted to achieve two things. One, when adding an image, I wanted the text to follow it. [..]



If Your Comment Wasn’t Approved
I use Akismet to block comment spam. For one of the very few times in the last few years of using it, I looked through the comments it [..]