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Weblogging

WordPress 1.2 release

The long awaited WordPress 1.2 has just been released. You can download the source directly at the Source Forge page if the WordPress site is slow. A major architectural update in 1.2 is the tool now makes about 25% less calls to the database, which should make significant improvements in performance. I’ve noticed this improvement in my working […]

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Technology

Splitting LAMP from the weblogs

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m going to continue the LAMP series later, but won’t be focusing them on the changes I’m making to WordPress. The two discussions aren’t compatible. I’ll wait for the released WordPress 1.2 product and then just post my modifications with instructions about how to incorporate the changes for those interested. […]

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Technology Weblogging

Survival guide to LAMP: Unlimited weblogs

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. L is for Linux, A is for Apache, M is for MySQL, and P is for PHP At this time, being able to create multiple instances of WordPress weblogs isn’t built into the tool interface, and some folks have been turned off of the product because of this. After all, […]

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Places Weather

Don’t visit in the summer

I love my new adopted home, I really do. I’d love to share it with all of you, except that I have to honestly say, whatever you do, don’t visit this summer. It’s only the middle of may and we’re heading to 90F, and 85% or better humidity. I went to the library and the […]

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People

I’m out of control

At wood s lot a reference to an old online interview with W.G. Sebald. What an unexpected treat this was. The entire interview was classic, wonderful Sebald, but I particularly liked what he had to say at the end of the interview: Certainly, my own life experience is that when I thought I had things sorted and I was […]