Migrating WordPress in Bits and Pieces (or Not)
When I created my first blog, The Ink Wells, I envisioned it as a place for me to store things that either I wanted to remember (a sort of digital Internet-powered sticky-note) or which I wanted to...
View ArticleInstalling dd-wrt without Windows
I won’t pretend to understand why the makers of dd-wrt would make all the installation tools Windows executables, but they have. I mean, it’s a Linux based firmware. Silliness. Fortunately I didn’t...
View ArticleA Little Light Boxing
There are several methods for implementing the lightbox effect in a WordPress blog. I was using the Lightbox 2 plugin since I started my blog a couple years back. Or maybe I started with Lightbox and...
View ArticleSpamaroony
Sometimes I just love love love the craziness of the spam I get to my blogs. I have decided to give vent to some of that otherwise lost content here. Enjoy! I intended to draft you this very little...
View ArticleThe Best Place to Find e coli?
I’ve been trying to persuade my brother into starting a food blog, and as part of that I’ve been peeking into the world of available domains. If you have ever tried to find a domain for your special...
View ArticleSome Good and Bad News in Ubuntu 14.04
I have been upgrading certain machines here at work and testing various items along the way. First one item of concern. There is a great package out there for Windows domain integration called...
View ArticleDNS in Windows with No Local Access
A user here at work borked one of their Windows 7 virtual machines after installing a VPN client and making some DNS/hosts changes. There uninstalled the VPN client (something from SonicWALL) but the...
View ArticleUniFi Controller and Ubuntu
I bought a UniFi wireless access point. Expensive but supposed to be about the nicest you can get for the money. I have high hopes. Anyway, I was a little worried about getting it set up using their...
View ArticleFuck Comcast
Comcast used to give me a static IP address for five dollars a month. This is exorbitant (as you will see below), but it was paradise to pay compared to what they are doing today. First a word about...
View Articletesting & expansion in code blocks
WordPress insists on changing certain characters into their & equivilants (when those characters appear within a code block) each time the article is udpated. This wouldn’t be a problem except...
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