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Le Linkage #3

Published on January 13, 2006 in Humor, Le Linkage, Linux and Open Source and WordPress. 0 Comments

More links, more fun, and some tools for your blogging enjoyment.

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SemioLogic: WordPress is a wonderful tool, but if you’re looking for a CMS, by itself WordPress just isn’t enough. The SemioLogic WordPress plugin turns your blogging software into more of a content management system, allowing you to set up both static content sites and dynamic content sites from your WordPress install. As of this writing, version 3.2 for WP 2.0 just came out, so go ahead and try it out.

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Pizza Guy Delivery Stories: It seems the more your job forces you to deal with people, the stranger the stories are you’re able to tell. This collection of stories comes from pizza delivery drivers all over the country. If you’ve ever worked customer service or tech support (or in delivery, for that matter) you’ll enjoy this set of tales and not feel bad at all for these people, because you’ve been through similar, if not the same. Funny, funny stuff.

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How Readable is Your Site?: If you run a website (likely a blog) then you’d probably be interested in seeing how readable your site is. This tool will help you figure out if you’re writing for the masses or if you’re better off saving your words for top secret government. Overall, my site’s just a bit more complicated than Mark Twain, but less so than TV Guide. Still, some posts should have been academic papers instead.

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HUGE list of linux commands. On one page: This page just warms my command line-lovin’ heart: it’s a massive collection of a buttload of Linux commands, with a short explanation of each one, organized alphabetically within sections. (This link provided to you by Digg.)

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Need to Email Large Files?: DropSend allows you to send files of up to 1GB and doesn’t require installing any application to your computer. (Source: The Evangelical Outpost)

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If you have any seriously interesting links you think readers should know about (no cas1n0 or p)rn sites, please), drop me a line in the comments section.

Is the Upgrade to WordPress 2.0 Worth It?

Published on January 10, 2006 in WordPress. 2 Comments

If you’re looking to upgrade your own blog to WordPress 2.0 and are currently running 1.5.2, you’ll be interested to read the replies to the following post on Owen’s blog, Asymptomatic.

After having upgraded to 2.0 myself, I can honestly state that although I like the improvements, had I known then what I know now, I probably wouldn’t have bothered. Among the commenters, the consensus seems to be “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Aparently, the improvements in the latest version of WordPress are mostly internal (except for the editing screen, which broke one of my plugins, FrameBuster).

Actually, one of the issues that’s been bothering me is the habit WordPress seems to have when editing a post of deleting all the Technorati tags I assigned to it, so I have to re-assign a post its tags every time I post. Pretty annoying.

There are other goods and bads, but overall, although I like it, I would probably recommend other bloggers hold off, especially if you have a lot of plugins. If you don’t, go for the upgrade. You won’t be gaining much, but you’ll be gaining one or two things of interest.

Upgrade Complete!

Published on January 8, 2006 in Gnorb.NET Updates and WordPress. 0 Comments

Gnorb.NET is now running on WordPress 2.0. Unfortunatelly, my custome theme with the cool, random header images doesn’t work with WP2, but as soon as I get it to work the site will pretty much be back to normal. For now, just treat this as a regular blog, instead of as your guidepost to life. (I kid! I kid!)

Edit: The site’s pretty much complete. Turns out most of my plugins worked just fine. I’ll still have the goet the updated versions of the ones that didn’t, but it looks like everything’s back to normal. I’d like to thank the WordPress theme for the awesome job they’ve done. If you want to try WordPress for yourself, head down to WordPress.com and sign up for a free blog, or go to WordPress.org and download the software for yourself.

The Beginning of the End for the Site Changes

Published on January 7, 2006 in Gnorb.NET Updates and WordPress. 0 Comments

For the past couple of weeks, my email address was messed up. That’s finally fixed.

Last nigh my site went down. As of this afternoon, that’s fixed.

The old bBlog part of my site is still down. That’ll get fixed.

I’m upgrading to WordPress 2.0 today while I watch the Bucs/Redskins game. After that’s over with, I’ll have to spend some time getting all the plugins and themes back in place. In the process, I’ll finish getting all the stuff out of bBlog and wipe that system off “my” server.

Once all that is done, all will once again be well.

This is the beginning of the end for site changes. Thank God. In addition, thank Nate, and the WordPress team.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, my team needs me. Too bad there’s nothing I can do here but yell “Go, Team, Go!” Not like it’ll make a difference — the Bucs are down 14-3 — but I do it just for fun.

By the way, check out my WordPress.com site, Gnorb’s Kitschy CyberXtreme iBlog. (Because one cliche catch phrase slogan just isn’t enough.)