I’ve been using WordPress for my site for just shy of two years now… and lots of sites in order to blatently generate renewed interest in older content post “year ago” type posts… and since I’ve been too busy to come up with something original lately (cept for a few things over at my formerfatdudes.com site), I figured I’ld jump on this bandwagon. But, I won’t be doing this weekly, likely towards the beginning of each month I’ll go back and look at what I did last year.
What Was Up A Year Ago
July 2nd, 2009 — ramblings
Taming the Ibex
November 1st, 2008 — geek effect
Ok, I am a couple days late, but I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10, Inrepid Ibex today. Actually, I did one spare computer with the Edubuntu add-ons that is eventually going to my niece and nephew, added it to my Acer laptop using WUBI so I can use Ubuntu or Windows, and then did a fresh install on my Acer desktop. Been a busy day.
Since I did a fresh install, that means there’s a LOT of stuff I have to redo. The reason I chose to do a fresh install is that I have two hard drives in this computer, a 300GB and a 500GB. The 500GB I haven’t really used for anything. The 300GB had partitions from both version 8.04 and 7.10. So I figure I would put 8.10 on the 500GB drive, and once I’ve copied all my old stuff over that I need to keep, I’ll repartition the 300GB back in to one drive. And yes, I did back all the stuff in my Home folder up first.
In fact, if you want to do a basic backup of a folder, rsync is pretty much the best way to go. I may write up something basic about it at some point, but the point of this posting is some of the steps I’m going through as I put stuff back on this desktop computer.
Adding a Tag Cloud Page to WordPress
August 14th, 2008 — geek effect
Ok, I’ve been playing with and cleaning up my widgets and plugins after I upgraded this WordPress install to 2.6. And without realizing it at first, I broke one of my pages when I removed the SimpleTag plugin. I figured, 2.6 has great tagging now, what do I need it for?
Well, my Tag Cloud page was using a call to that plugin to generate a list of all the tags I have used… 469 to date.
So rather than reinstall the plugin just to have that cloud, I did some playing around and here’s what I came up with.
Put all your (dragon) eggs in one basket
March 21st, 2008 — at play
Easter is just a couple days from now, so you may not get these done in time for Sunday, but with the way these can turn out you may want to keep them around all year long.
With a normal egg, a hot-glue gun, and some various paints, you can have your own ‘Dragon Egg’. DadCanDo.com has a PDF instruction file you can download, but the process is pretty basic. Put holes in the ends of the egg and blow out the insides… clean an dry. But before painting, “draw” on the veining using hot glue.
The site also has a page on how to make the stands as well as some other slick looking projects that I am only starting to dive in to.
Dragon’s Egg [dadcando.com]
Turn on the XAMPP – Part 2
December 27th, 2007 — geek effect
I hope everything is working fine, so that when you enter localhost in the address bar of your browser you are taken to the splash screen, from there you click on your language option and go to the XAMPP for Linux control panel. If you click on the Security option on the menu you will see a bunch of stuff with red UNSECURE tags on the end of them.
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Turn on the XAMPP – Part 1
December 27th, 2007 — geek effect
The Ubuntu forums has a great thread for setting up your XAMPP environment in Ubuntu, but it can be a hassle to read through the entire thread at to get to what you need to get up and running.
This is going to be Part 1, Getting XAMPP installed and running. In the next part or two, I’ll touch on tweeking some things to make it easier to work with.
