We were hit with a major storm last night. And this time we didn’t escape damage. I had taken my camera out just before the tornado alert sounded. It’s gotten so I can tell when it’s going to ring. However, as I was doing my usual, taking pictures of the storm clouds, I got hit […]
Month: May 2004
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Can’t we all just get along?
Sam Ruby came out with a posting that covers a conversation about characters and RSS 2.0 and Rogers Caldenhead, but ends up with a simple statement about syndication feeds: The key takeaway here is to beware of anybody who preaches one true format or one size fits all. Each format has its strengths. And none of them […]
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Salt and Pepper
I don’t follow too many traditions when it comes to holidays. Without strong family ties or kids, I don’t celebrate Halloween or Thanksgiving; and since I lack a religious foundation, I don’t celebrate Easter or Christmas. However, I still make fried chicken and my three favorite cold salads on the Friday before Memorial weekend, ready […]
I posted some suggestions on the WordPress magic quote problem at the support forum, here. Before running the application, make a mysqldump backup first, using the following: mysqldump -u username -p databasename > wpdatabasebackup.sql When prompted for password, enter password. And this concludes the last of my posts on WordPress.
L is for Linux, A is for Apache, M is for MySQL, and P is for PHP/Python/Perl Open source applications such as WordPress (functioning under a GPL license) are gaining a lot of fans and followers in the last few years. After all, there is an inherent goodness to projects that are free enough to quote Mark Pilgrim. Thanks to increasingly […]