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WordPress image uploader crashing Firefox

on May 31, 2009 - 0 Comments
code, wordpress

If you are having trouble with Firefox crashing when you go to try to upload an image using the WordPress flash-based image uploader. Here is a quick fix.

Go into your Firefox addons. (Tools – Add ons).

Find the Google Gears entry.

Click Disable button, and restart your Firefox Browser.

disable google gears firefox

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Good Ridance Geocities!

on April 24, 2009 - 2 Comments
misc

Wow, talk about unloading a bunch of crap off the internet. This will be like cleaning the back corners of the internet that no one visits.

10 million spots now freed up in the Google index!

geocities-good-ridance-bye

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Drinking Fountain Feed

on April 23, 2009 - 0 Comments
misc

Wow, you know you spend to much time on the internet when you look at the drinking fountain drain and see an RSS feed there…

drinking fountain rrs 1 drinking fountain rrs 2

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Some thoughts on TypePad

on April 5, 2009 - 2 Comments
software

wordpressBeing a fan of WordPress for it’s well written, and very active development community for code, plugins, and themes, and also because it is free and open source. I have always been a little mystified why anyone would want to use typepad, because it is missing many of those components listed above.

The big questions for me on Type Pad has always been:

1) Why pay for the right to use blogging software?

2) Why be  pour your blogging to a domain you do not own? To me that feels like remodeling a rental house on your own dollar.

So here is the answer:

typepadThe major benefit of using a service like Type Pad is ironiclly the same reason as the reasons not to. It comes down to this, if someone is paying a fee to a service to run their blog, then the content is likely going to be higher. All you have to do is look at all the lousy blogs on blogger and blogspot, etc…  You are not likely to find nearly the same ratio of quality blogs to spam blogs on a service like TypePad.

Any blog on typepad domain is likely going to get a natural boost for this reason.

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WordPress Automatic Update with 1and1

on February 11, 2009 - 67 Comments
code, wordpress

How to make the automatic update work with your WordPress blogs that are hosted on 1and1 shared servers. These are blogs that you set up yourself, not the blog that 1and1 can install for you.

The problem I was having was the update would start, and then just stop after a few seconds.

wordpress-update-1and1

Then in my wp-content folder I would see a bunch of failed downloads. They were the update zip files with a 0 byte size.

Add the following lines to your .htaccess file in the root directory of your blog.

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

This will enable PHP version 5 + on your blog and then your update should take off.

working-wordpress-update-1and1

The udpate to PHP 5 should also make your blog run a little faster and better.

Now that WP 3.0.1 is out, it is a good time to test out the automatic upgrade!

Looking to host with 1and1? Affiliate link :)

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Musical Notes

on December 16, 2008 - 7 Comments
code

How to display musical notes without images. (ASCII)

The quarter note: ♩ which is ♩

The eighth note: ♪ which is ♪

The single bar note: ♫ which is & #9835;

The double bar note: ♬ which is & #9836;

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