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Burningbird

Home sweet home

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 […]

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Burningbird Weblogging

Slammed by a trackback

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 […]

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Burningbird Weblogging

Making the move from Movable Type to WordPress

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 […]

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Burningbird Weblogging

Moving to a new weblogging tool

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 […]

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Stuff

Them!

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My media setup in my bedroom/office/living room is relatively complete. I have a nice sound system, a television with cable, and when I want to watch DVDs, I can watch them on my TiBook. However, I have an extensive library of old VHS tapes and the only VHS player was […]