BurningbirdThe Greening happened overnight. When I woke up this morning, even the tallest and largest trees were sporting leaves, and every car was coated in green dust. No matter how carefully I look for it in the Spring, the Greening happens suddenly, without warning. In the front yard, I noticed that the seed I scattered […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Oh good lord. I have no idea whether to laugh or snort in disgust. I guess it depends on whether this is a made up story or a real one. While I was having way too much fun with the St. Louis weblogging group working on comment fiction, a story, if […]
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 […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. As you’ve seen, I am moving Burningbird to a new weblogging tool this week. After testing several, and after long deliberation, I decided to move to WordPress. Once that decision was made, I have been spending the last couple of days making some extensive template and code changes to WordPress 1.02 […]