I’ll try not to turn this blog into a WordPress blog (especially as it is on MT) but I will be blogging some of the tools, hints and pages related to WordPress in the near future whilst I play with it.
A useful tool for creating a banner to go with the default kubrick scheme, is Red Alt – Kubrickr which takes an image from flickr and resizes and “corners” the picture ready to replace the default blue square.
Its a basic tool, but with a good choice of photos and colours the final result is pretty good.
Month: February 2005
I’ve got to do some more word template programming at the office and need to show people how it is done and how someone else can edit/create new macros and have them signed. It is fairly easy to do and rather than showing them how to do it they can read the document Using SelfCert to Create Digital Certificates in a Network and then I’ll show them.
There is a bulk edit screen in WordPress for editing links (aka blogrolls) but there is no functionality for bulk deleting links. You can change the rolls they need to be in, their visibility etc but not bulk delete them 🙁
I finally signed up with flickr and have uploaded a couple of old photos to the site to play with.Flickr: Photos from absoblogginlutely is the home page. It looks like a good tool to share photos online and for people to find out that you’ve posted new pictures online. The tagging is really handy too as it doesn’t tie you down to directory names when assigning categories. What would be really cool would be integration with a tool like picasa2 so you wouldn’t have to re-tag everything.
After posting about qiq earlier and the recent hassles I’ve had with hasweb I decided to get a new hosting company and the offer from qiq seemed very good. I’ve also had some correspondence with the owner and this allayed some of my worries. I signed up on Thursday and received the password information within the 5 minutes they promised. I wasn’t able to get into the site using ssh until the following morning, but there was some confusion over the password synchronisations between the control panel and the actual server itself. Its now all sorted and I’ve installed a test implementation of wordpress to play with. The one thing that I really like is the ssh implementation as i was able to download, extract and install wordpress from the shell without having to download to my pc.
An alternative to Geourl.org has been launched and you can add your site at the homepage at geourl.infoby using the form which then provides you with a link like blogs near Absoblogginlutely via mike@zed1
The dryer conked out this week and stopped heating the air. I popped the back off the dryer this morning and was pretty shocked about the amount of dust and cat hair in the dryer. I think there was easily enough to make a lifesize cat out of it all. Anyway, after taking the side panel off and still not finding the thermostat I took the back off the dryer and there they (both) were. After shorting out the second thermostat, the dryer started to heat up so I know that is the fault.
When i went to the repair shop in town they couldn’t find any record of the model number on their system. Fortunately I had found the part number on ezee fix’s website and when I quoted that, they were able to look it up. They didn’t have any in stock but will have some in on Tuesday and its cheaper than online (just) as I don’t have to pay postage and the online shop wouldn’t have shipped it by Tuesday (and this way I’m supporting the local shop)
Only now, after I’ve finished all my migrations, have I discovered the Windows User State Migration Tool (USMT) which looks like a scriptable version of the Files And Settings Transfer wizard. This tool might have saved me some time instead of having to do it all by hand.
Microsoft released a new version of their Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) for download. What is weird is that the existing beta software had an update routine in it, but when you ran it, it did not detect a new version. Apparently the changes are to do with extra real time protection agents, new threat categories and improved stability and performance (although I never had any performance problems with it).
It is perfectly possible to subscribe via email to yahoogroups with an email address containing a plus sign. However if you try to verify the email address you can’t as they encode the plus sign to %2b and then the server drops the %2b to a space and complains that “sb @domain.com” is invalid (which it is).