BurningbirdWordPress is heading into beta test on 1.2, and I’ve installed this with my Practical RDF weblog (though I don’t have the old MT entries ported yet). This release made some very good changes to the interface, including providing options that allow you to set how long a post entry field is, and what to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I am in the midst of trying to salvage weblog entries that have gone through many variations of URL identification, as I’ve passed from tool to tool, and through many variations of what is subjective goodness in URL naming strategies. At the same time, I am also dealing with years old links […]
Other than the fact that my recent comments listing doesn’t show using Navigator on Mac OS X, I’ve found my new home to be quite nice. I am still impressed with the speed of publishing. I took some time off to work on other things, but now I’ll start looking at finetuning my own hacks […]
A trackback got through on MT, and ended up causing a rebuild that overwrote the stylesheet, index.php (which is the WP template), and various other files. Luckily, this time I had backups. Trackbacks should have been turned off, but with all the hacks to overcome spamming, turning TB off in the database isn’t reliable. If […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Right off, I’m going to issue a disclaimer: If you want to change weblogging tools to reduce how much you have to tweak your tool installation, forget using WordPress; at least for now. The product is barely in version 1.0 release, and some major changes to the code are being […]